Video: 15 and Pregnant: Why I Chose Adoption Instead of Abortion

Give Miranda a minute to tell you why she chose adoption to provide the best life for her and her baby. Just 15, Miranda knew she needed a few more years of being a kid before she could even think about being a parent. So if you're pregnant but you're not ready to be a mom, we're ready to help you choose adoption too. Because you're not giving your baby away, you're giving your baby a chance.

The follow video is very inspirational. Visit their web site at http://ichooseadoption.org/.



~ Via LifeNews.com

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Breaking: Texas House passes law banning abortions after 20 weeks in final vote

Praise God! It was a nasty battle, but we won. Now to move onto the abolishment of all abortion. 

AUSTIN, TX, July 10, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Texas House of Representatives has passed a pro-life law that would restrict abortions to the first 20 weeks of pregnancy. On the third reading, HB2 passed the chamber by a vote of 96-49.

The bill stalled during a first special session as a mob of pro-abortion activists shouted down a vote, and an 11-hour filibuster by Wendy Davis prevented lawmakers from voting on the measure.

Gov. Rick Perry has promised to ensure that the bill passes and is signed into law.
Yesterday, Democrats attempted to hinder the passage of the law by proposing more than two dozen amendments to water down or sidetrack the bill during 10 hours of debate. However, all amendments were voted down.

The bill now heads to the Senate, where it is expected to pass.

Read the full story

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Security Council Says Abortion Not a Human Right Even in Cases of Rape

by Michelle Riestra and Rebecca Oas, Ph.D.

The UN Security Council rebuffed suggestions that victims of wartime rape have a right to abortion in a landmark resolution on women in peace and security last week.

Actress Angelina Jolie urged the United Nations to help victims and punish perpetrators as part of the effort to garner celebrity status for UN causes. She told harrowing tales of women and children being sexually abused in refugee camps.

The Security Council adopted a resolution that focuses on preventing and addressing sexual violence in situations of conflict, but does not mention abortion and the morning-after pill and this angered some.

Delegations that promote abortion internationally expressed their frustration. “Why are the sexual and reproductive rights of victims of sexual violence still in dispute?” questioned French delegate Najat Vallaud-Belkacem. Speaking for the Nordic countries, Karin Enstrom said the availability of abortion and the morning-after pill was “crucial” in situations of conflict.

The Security Council also rebuffed inclusion of homosexual rights. UN bodies have consistently rejected specific rights for homosexuals.

The Security Council resolution, as close to law as anything that comes out of the UN, included the ambiguous phrase “sexual and reproductive health” for the first time. Part of the ambiguity of the term, only ever defined in a 1994 UN conference, is that it includes abortion where it is legal, but does not include them in countries that protect human life in the womb.

While the Security Council accepted this ambiguity, it rejected any steps towards legitimizing abortion and the morning-after pill.

A report of the Secretary-General earlier this year described abortion and the morning-after pill are “an integral component” to any response to sexual violence in conflict — an indication of the growing rift between the liberal social policies embraced by the UN bureaucracy and the policies agreed by the full membership of the United Nations. The Security Council merely “took note” of the report, the least enthusiastic acknowledgment a document can receive in a UN resolution, tantamount to rejecting the report’s suggestions regarding abortion as a remedy for rape.

Abortion groups have attempted for some time to use the plight of rape victims to create a new human right to abortion. Rape in humanitarian situations is considered one of the “hard cases”. Groups raised the point with UN policy makers at the UN Commission on the Status of Women earlier this year but without success. For the moment too many countries protect human life in the womb for abortion to be made a right under any circumstance.

The Vatican warned member states not to get distracted by agendas that “harm human dignity” in their effort to help victims of rape. Archbishop Francis Chulikatt criticized the inclusion of the term “sexual and reproductive health” in the resolution as a “destructive notion of health care… used as a justification for taking life.” He added “the death of an innocent unborn child only visits further violence on a woman already in difficulty.”

Source: Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute

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Women Sent to Hotel Rooms Alone to Await Room-Service Abortions

Just sit on the toilet”: NM abortionists leave women alone in hotel rooms to deliver babies, await room-service abortions

Arlington, VA – Live Action has released the sixth video in its latest undercover investigation, Inhuman: Undercover in America’s Abortion Industry.  The video, found at www.liveaction.org/inhuman, exposes abortion doctors at Southwestern Women’s Options in Albuquerque, New Mexico revealing disturbing aspects of the facility’s protocol, including the practice of leaving women alone in hotel rooms to deliver their dead children.

An unnamed counselor at the facility advises Live Action’s 27-week-pregnant investigator:

If we can’t catch it [delivery of the dead baby – the final stage of the abortion procedure] early enough, which has happened … then you’ll want to unlock the door to the hotel room, get your cell phone, and just sit on the toilet.  You don’t have to look at anything … you can stay on the phone with us until the doctor and nurse get there[.]

Dr. Carmen Landau echoes this advice, telling the Live Action investigator to “sit on the toilet” and “unlock the hotel room.”  “Just sit there,” Landau says, “and you would not move until we come and get you.”

Live Action President Lila Rose condemned Southwestern Women’s Options and what she calls the “abortion-first mentality.”  “Abortion corporations like Southwestern Women’s Options and Planned Parenthood will say and do anything to ‘close the deal,’” Rose said.  “Leaving a woman alone on the toilet in a hotel room and saying ‘call us and we’ll come get you’ – at a time when seconds can make the difference between life and death – is profoundly irresponsible and negligent.  We must never forget that abortion is a business first and foremost – a business willing to destroy a helpless, voiceless child for literally thousands of dollars.  We cannot be surprised when they send women off in the middle of a dangerous procedure for ‘room-service abortions.’  But we can be disgusted, and we can demand an end to it.”

Southwestern Women’s Options was a subject of Live Action’s previous video, titled “What is Human?,” in which Dr. Landau likened the lethal injection that kills the fetus to “a flu shot, really.”

The new video also presents an abortion counselor offering misleading information on whether the 27-week pre-born child will feel the lethal abortion injection.  “[If the baby]‘s bottom-down, it’ll insert through the baby’s bottom, [and] if it’s head-down, it’ll be inserted through the cranium.”

“I don’t know if it’s developed enough to feel that,” she says.  “It might be.”  The Live Action video includes references to K.S. Anand, an expert on fetal pain, and the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, showing that pre-born children at 20 weeks and older definitely feel pain – likely more acutely than older children do.

Dr. Curtis Boyd, who co-owns Southwestern Women’s Options, also runs Southwestern Women’s Surgery Center in Dallas, Texas.  The facility offers abortions up to 24 weeks, the state’s legal limit.

Texas became an abortion battleground in June, with Governor Rick Perry calling a special legislative session to address the discovery of Douglas Karpen’s Gosnell-like “House of Horrors” in Houston.

Live Action has sent letters including the complete New Mexico footage, which is available online, to elected officials in both New Mexico and Texas.  Recipients include Texas Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst and the twenty state representatives who called for an investigation into the Karpen facility.  Live Action is demanding investigations in both states of Curtis Boyd and his staff.

“We’re urging pro-life officials like New Mexico’s Governor Susana Martinez to put an end to the inhuman and brutal practices going on in these facilities,” Rose said.  “And as Texas legislators seek to vote on a bill that would protect pain-capable babies from an agonizing death, we pray that they will put an end to Curtis Boyd’s bloody handiwork as well.”

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Pro-life Quote of the Day: Response to Nancy Pelosi

In response to Nancy Pelosi's comments earlier today, Marjorie Dannenfelser, President of the Susan B. Anthony List, made the following remarks:

“As a mother and practicing Catholic, I have a modest proposal for Mrs. Pelosi: that she consider the Church's teaching which says each life is sacred and reject the idea that each abortion is.“

H/T: Creative Minority Report

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Cardinal Burke: Contraception and the culture of abortion

U.S. Cardinal Raymond L. Burke discusses the relationship between contraception and the culture of abortion.

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Abortion Clinic Employees -- "Babies born alive daily."

Life Dynamics Inc. a national pro-life organization located in Denton, Texas, has released an interview with three former abortion clinic workers which prove the Pennsylvania abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell, recently convicted of murder, is not an anomaly.

The interview was conducted on May 3, 2013 with clinic employees located in a different state. Though their descriptions are disturbing, the video images are non-graphic.

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Cardinal Burke on global pro-life activism

U.S. Cardinal Raymond L. Burke reflects on the impact of the pro-life movement worldwide.

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Gosnell is found guilty of three counts of murder: Now what?

The Kermit Gosnell murder trial verdict is now in. Gosnell has been convicted of murder in the first degree of three babies who were born alive. He could face the death penalty for murder charges. I have been praying for justice in this trial and it is no surprise to me that this verdict was made on the anniversary of the first apparition of Fatima. Thank you, dear Mother Mary, for your intercession.

I believe that something good is about to come out of the horrifically evil situation. We need to continue praying and acting in a Christian-like manner, not with angry words but with prayers of thanksgiving that the truth has been revealed in this case and that justice has been done. We need to continue to pray with all our hearts for those who are enslaved in the culture of death and who are deceived by the evil one into thinking that killing babies is something good. We need to continue to perform acts of penance and reparation and to fast for an end to the murder of the innocent. And, lastly, as horrible and as wicked as Gosnell's actions were, we need to pray for his conversion. This final action truly shows that we are Christians and not a part of the culture of death.

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Cher’s Mom Almost Had Abortion, Changed Mind at the Clinic

A new report shows the other of the famous singer Cher considered having an abortion and went as far as making an appointment and going to the abortion clinic to take her daughter’s life. Until Georgia Holt  changed her mind.

Despite narrowly avoiding becoming an abortion victim, Cher steadfastly defends legalized abortion.

Read the entire story.

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Gosnell Who?

Steven Crowder interviewed Americans on the street to see if they knew who Gosnell is or why he is on trial:



H/T: Jill Stanek

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Live Action Investigation #3: Arizona

Live Action’s third installment in the "Inhuman" investigative series continues to expose the gruesome truth about the late-term abortion industry. This horrifying footage from Phoenix, AZ proves that murdering a child born alive after a failed abortion is business as usual in the abortion industry, and that no child is safe…not even a child BORN after surviving a failed abortion.




Here is a sample of the shocking revelations that the undercover footage exposed:

Investigator: So if they use the suction, then they, there’s possible movement when it comes out?
Counselor: Yeah, and sometimes after--
Investigator: Is it alive, or--
Counselor: Sometimes they are, yeah. But it doesn't, it doesn't necessarily mean that it will come out whole. ‘Cause they use suction, plus they use instruments, and sometimes the fetuses don't come out, you know, it’s not complete.

This counselor assured the investigator that “they do not resuscitate” babies born alive in their clinic, echoing the appalling statements by clinic workers and abortionists from in the Bronx and D.C. Live Action footage.

Earlier in the video, when the Live Action investigator, who was 24 weeks pregnant, asked whether an ambulance should be called if she goes into labor during the two-day procedure, the abortionist instructs the investigator not to call 911:

Abortionist: No, call us first...if you showed up in an average emergency room with an emergency room physician who's not a gynecologist, probably has never seen or done a termination, they will treat you as though you are somebody with a desired pregnancy…
Investigator: So they would basically like try to take care of it.
Abortionist: Right they would intervene and do all kinds of crazy things that you don’t need to have done to you...

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Archbishop Chaput on the Gosnell Murder Trial

Here is what Archbishop Chaput had to say in his latest column in the Catholic Philly about the murder trial of late-term abortionist Kermit Gosnell, who practiced in Philadelphia:


Some stories, no matter how unsettling, just can’t be ignored — even when some people are determined to look away.

The murder trial of Philadelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell will soon go to jury. And like every other criminally accused person under the law, Gosnell is innocent until proven guilty. Whatever the verdict though, there’s no ambiguity about the kind of business he ran at his West Philadelphia “Women’s Medical Center” ­— an abortion clinic that critics have likened to a meatpacking plant or a butcher shop, with unborn children delivered into a toilet, and jars of fetal body parts stored around the facility.

Dr. Gosnell was originally charged with one count of infanticide and five counts of “abuse of corpse” for killing fetuses born alive by plunging scissors into their necks. Without explanation, the judge in the case accepted a motion to acquit Gosnell of these charges earlier this week. Gosnell still faces four counts of first-degree and one count of third-degree murder. Eight of his coworkers have already pleaded guilty in the case, including three to third-degree murder.

Or so said The New York Times in a report dated April 23.  The date is important.  Gosnell’s trial began March 18, more than a month ago.  The Times coverage, while modest, is significant.  Why?  The answer is simple.  The Inquirer – Philadelphia’s hometown paper – has done a good job following the trial.  But most prestige national media have seemed remarkably eager to ignore the story until shamed into covering it.

Gosnell is much more than a “local” story. The continuing debate over legalized abortion is a hot-button national issue that drew half a million pro-life demonstrators to Washington in January. The battle over abortion restrictions continues in every state. Forty years after the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision, resistance to permissive abortion remains high. And the vivid details of the Gosnell clinic tragedy have the kind of salacious appeal that few national media would normally avoid — if the issue were anything else. But abortion is too often, and in too many news rooms, exactly the kind of topic that brings on a sudden case of snow blindness.

The real story in the Gosnell trial is bigger than the ugly allegations against Gosnell himself; it includes the failure — the allergic disinterest — of some of our most important national media. A headline in The Atlantic magazine, April 12, states the obvious: “Why Dr. Kermit Gosnell’s Trial Should Be a Front-Page Story: The dead babies. The exploited women. The racism. The numerous governmental failures. It is thoroughly newsworthy.”

The Atlantic story by Conor Friedersdorf is worth reading. But don’t stop there.  Read this by Kirsten Powers, columnist for The Daily Beast, in USA Today. And these excellent analyses by journalists Terry Mattingly, Mollie Hemingway and George Conger.

The irony is that much of the media’s lethargy in covering the Gosnell case really doesn’t surprise. It’s part of the fabric of a culture that simply will not see what it doesn’t want to see about the realities of abortion. And it leads to the kind of implausible claim made recently by one local commentator that “no sense of guilt is warranted” by the media because “there is no causal connection between coverage of [the Gosnell] case and bias.” It’s hard to imagine a more untenable alibi.

The brutality in abortion is intimate, personal and permanent. It violates women, and it kills a developing human life every time — whether the venue is a “Women’s Medical Center”-style meat factory or a soothing suburban clinic. What makes the Gosnell story unique is that it should distress anyone with its details, pro-choice or pro-life, regardless of religion or politics.

But of course, people need to know about an evil before they can do anything about it.

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Inhuman: Undercover in America's Late-Term Abortion Industry

Gosnell is not alone.

What you are about to see will shock you!

You've heard about the horrifying details of Kermit Gosnell's gruesome late-term abortion spree, but what if he is not the only one?

Watch Live Action's investigative release to find out what happens when an abortion counselor in the Bronx, New York, is asked what will happen to a child that survives an abortion at their clinic. Her answer will shock you...

Note: This video is not intended for children. 



At Dr. Emily's clinic in the Bronx, NY, the abortion counselor is caught on tape describing, in a gruesomely precise way, exactly how late-term abortions happen. She goes on to explain what happens to a baby after the abortion and advises to “flush” the child down the toilet if he or she is delivered at home before the final stage of the two- or three-day abortion procedure.

“If it comes out, then it comes out. Flush it. ... if anything, you know, put it in a bag or something or somewhere and bring it to us.”

When Live Action’s undercover investigator asked what will happen to the baby after the abortion – or what the clinic would do if, after the abortion, the baby is moving – the counselor says:

“If it did come out in one piece, it’s very small. So they would still have to put it in a container – like, a jar – with solution and send it to the lab.”

When the clinic worker is asked what happens if the baby (after the abortion) is breathing or twitching, she responds:

“The solution will make it stop. It’s not going to be moving around in the jar ... that’s the whole purpose of the solution.”

“It’ll automatically stop. It won’t be able to [breathe]...not with the solution.”

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Second Fly-In Abortionist Identified Working at Wichita Abortion Clinic

We must pray for the conversion of these abortionists and for an end to abortion. 

April 28, 2013

 Wichita, KS - Operation Rescue has received verification of the identity of a second abortionist who plans to work at a new Wichita abortion clinic located in the same building where George Tiller once operated the largest late-term abortion mill outside Communist China.

Valencia Stephens is an abortionist from Arizona who will fly into Kansas to do first and early second trimester abortions through 14 weeks at South Wind Women's Center, located at 5107 E. Kellogg in Wichita, a new abortion business that opened earlier this month. Prior to its opening, Wichita had been abortion-free for nearly four years. 

Stephens is currently operating in Kansas under a temporary license with no local hospital privileges.

In Arizona, Stephens works for Saguaro Physicians in Sierra Vista, a small boarder community south of Tuscon. (View her profile page at Saguaro Physicians.) Read the entire story.

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72 U.S. Representatives express outrage with the mainstream media for the Gosnell black-out

Via LifeNews.Com:

A top pro-life congresswoman exposed late-term abortion practitioner Kermit Gosnell, who is on trial for murder, on the O’Reilly Factor program last night.



Due to a lack of national broadcast news coverage on these issues, Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) organized a letter with 71 of her House colleagues last week to ABC, NBC, and CBS. The letters demand these networks stop blacking out coverage on high-profile abortion controversies. Read more

Via David Gittrich at Kansans for Life:

The murder trial of Kermit Gosnell has been ignored by the major media.  Those who are aware of what is happening, are appalled that the media refuses to cover this story.  Over 70 U.S. Representatives sent the following letter to the media.  Representative Tim Huelskamp and Representative Mike Pompeo signed this letter.  The addresses for the major media follow the letter.  All of us should let them know that we are aware of the media's bias -- we are not fools.

Dear­ (News Outlet - see list below),

As Members of Congress, we seldom, and with good reason, take the opportunity to communicate directly to you our views on the subject matter of your national news broadcasts. However, we write this letter to express how profoundly appalled we are that your networks have largely ignored two significant stories: Planned Parenthood’s lobbying efforts in support of infanticide in Florida last month as well as the ongoing criminal murder trial of Dr. Kermit Gosnell in Philadelphia.

Surely, the Planned Parenthood lobbying scandal and the ongoing Gosnell murder case, which has been described as a “House of Horrors,” meet your threshold criteria for a national news segment. Yet despite this obvious fact, coverage of these stories has eluded your news divisions. Our modern world offers no shortage of calamities and crimes to occupy the time of writers, video editors, and announcers. Nonetheless, we see no excuse for your failure to report these stories other than blatant media bias. There is nothing “politically incorrect” about reporting the negative impacts of abortion on women and children. People’s reliance on your networks for information has been sorely betrayed as it relates to these cases and it undermines your credibility in the public square.

We welcome your response to tell us that this is not so – that you can explain why Planned Parenthood’s public endorsement of the right to deny medical treatment to children who survive abortion is not of interest to the general public. Help us understand how one of the most notorious cases in our nation’s history of patient abuse of mothers and babies does not merit airtime on your programming. These sentiments have also been raised by community leaders who wrote to you on April 4 under the auspices of the Media Research Center. Their inquiries deserve a response not merely in terms of public accountability, but also as a measure of common decency.

Health care and the protection of the weakest members of society are subjects of high priority for any civilized society. As Americans assess these cases, the condition of our culture, and the utility of our laws, they depend on you. Additionally, public officials and lawmakers rely upon an unprejudiced press to follow the truth and report the news, good and bad, for all to see and evaluate appropriately. For these reasons, we urge you and your colleagues to take seriously our concerns.

     Sincerely,
(Signed by Mike Pompeo and Tim Huelskamp along with other members of Congress)

Letter sent to:
ABC News
7 West 66th Street
New York, NY 10023

CBS News
524 W. 57th Street
New York, NY 10019

NBCUniversal News Group
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, NY 10112

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Thousands of Citizen Complaints Lodged Against Carhart for Third-Trimester Abortion Death

In addition to Kermit Gosnell, there is another human butcher on the loose. Hopefully, through our efforts, late-term abortionist LeRoy Carhart will be removed from his position soon.

Annapolis, MD — Over 6,000 of citizen complaints against late-term abortionist LeRoy Carhart were successfully delivered to the Maryland Board of Physicians yesterday by representatives of Students for Life in America. The complaints were in support of a formal complaint filed on February 19, 2013, by Operation Rescue seeking license revocation for Carhart in the death of 28-year old Jennifer Morbelli.


Morbelli had sought an abortion at Carhart’s late-term abortion clinic in Germantown, Maryland, at 33-weeks into her pregnancy after her pre-born daughter, Madison, was diagnosed with a seizure disorder. After her abortion, Carhart left Maryland and could not be reached by Morbelli’s family when her condition deteriorated later that night. The next day, February 7, Morbelli was taken to Shady Grove Hospital where she eventually died from massive internal bleeding. Hospital staff also failed to reach Carhart, which complicated and delayed the diagnosis of her condition and appropriate treatment that might have saved her life.

Read the entire story.

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Fox News to air one-hour special on Gosnell trial

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 24, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Fox News will air a one-hour documentary on “house of horrors” abortionist Kermit Gosnell in two weeks. The special program will air at 9 p.m. on Sunday, May 5, according to Fr. Frank Pavone of Priests for Life.

The Gosnell story garnered national media coverage after a successful campaign on the social media site Twitter two weeks ago that generated more than half-a-million mentions of the abortionist and hundreds of thousands of uses of the #Gosnell hashtag. Read the entire story.

Note: My research reveals that this special is scheduled for 9 p.m. ET., but be sure to double-check your local listings for the exact time in your area, as times may vary or be subject to change.

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It's a Gosnell World

By Judie Brown

What is it that makes mainstream media all but ignore the horrors perpetrated by Kermit Gosnell? What is it that makes most Americans have only a passing interest, if any, in this gruesome case? And what can be done to change this? Today's commentary addresses the heart of the matter and challenges each and every one of us to overcome this problem that has crippled our society.

There have been literally millions of words spoken and written about the 72-year-old abortionist who is now standing trial because of the aborted-but-born-alive babies he butchered.

Read the entire editorial.

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Kermit Gosnell Judge Drops Three Abortion-Infanticide Charges

The judge in the trial of abortion practitioner Kermit Gosnell has acquitted him of three of the eight murder charges the abortion business owner faces in his murder trial.

Gosnell faces eight total murder counts — one or killing a woman in a botched abortion and seven for killing babies in abortion-infanticides that involved live-birth abortions and snipping their necks after birth. Read the entire story.

This leaves me speechless. All I can say is this is a sad commentary on our judicial system and on our society. It is very sad indeed. 

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