Hear about the legal breakthrough in abortion law?

Sheila Liaugminas


Overhwhelming odds are that you didn’t, even if you live in the state of Illinois, where the landmark decision came down last week.
The story, a small piece, was buried on page 11 of the Chicago Tribune the next day.
A federal appeals court in Chicago on Tuesday breathed new life into a long-dormant Illinois law that requires physicians to notify the parents of teenage girls before performing abortions.
Attorneys on both sides of the issue said the law — which was passed in 1984 and updated in 1995 — would take effect within weeks unless its critics ask for a stay and the three-judge panel of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agrees to put its order on hold pending a rehearing.

http://www.mercatornet.com/sheila_liaugminas/view/hear_about_the_legal_breakthrough_in_abortion_law/

Abortion industry bailout

Sheila Liaugminas
Besides the surprise revelation about restrictions on private health insurance (below), what else is in that 1,018 page health care bill that’s just coming to light?
Mandated taxpayer funding of abortion. FOCA has returned, under the cover of this bill.
Pro-life groups and lawmakers are continuing to raise the alarm over the healthcare reform package President Obama is aggressively pushing through both the House and the Senate. The groups are urging Americans to oppose the healthcare overhaul, as pro-abortion lawmakers are insisting that abortion must be included in the basic healthcare package that all public and private insurers will eventually be required to cover.
But they’re using stealth language.

http://www.mercatornet.com/sheila_liaugminas/view/abortion_industry_bailout/

Mike Pence taking on Planned Parenthood

Charlie Butts - OneNewsNow -
Pro-life Congressman Mike Pence (R-Indiana) has drafted an amendment to defund Planned Parenthood.

Pence's amendment is attached to a Department of Health and Human Services funding bill that, in part, throws federal tax dollars Planned Parenthood's way. Justin Aquila of the Susan B. Anthony List tells OneNewsNow the abortion provider receives a sizeable part of the appropriation. "In the past two years, Planned Parenthood has received $350 million [in taxpayer funding]," he notes.

http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=612196

Korea’s population crisis

Choi Seon-jeong

Korea is suffering from a national crisis of super-low fertility. The head of the Korean affiliate of Planned Parenthood explains why.
The head of the Korean affiliate of the International Planned Parenthood Federation recently pleaded with his countrymen and women to have more children. Choi Seon-jeong, president of the Planned Population Federation of Korea, warned in the JoongAng Daily that his government must combat a "national crisis of super-low fertility", or Korea will disappear. MercatorNet asked him to explain how this has happened and how he proposes to increase birth rates.
MercatorNet: The latest statistics show that the fertility rate in the Republic of Korea is one of the lowest in the world. You have described this as a "national crisis of super-low fertility". What do you fear will happen?

http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/koreas_population_crisis/

KS lawmakers want to defund abortion chain

Charlie Butts - OneNewsNow -

The Kansas legislature has voted to defund Planned Parenthood. The decision was based, in part, because of investigations of Planned Parenthood by former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline. State Senator Tim Huelskamp led the drive for defunding. "They were charged in the last year with 107 counts of violations of our late-term abortion laws," he points out.

http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=522584

No-family planning

Sheila Liaugminas
The semantic engineering going on between the United Nations and International Planned Parenthood is just amazing. They want the public to think they’re all about rights and family health. But look more closely….
The UN Population Fund is about reducing population by either preventing or eliminating people. And claiming that as a ‘right’.

http://www.mercatornet.com/sheila_liaugminas/view/no_family_planning/

A common sense argument against abortion

Elijah Friedeman, the Millennial Perspective

Sometimes current events are perfect for making a case against abortion as Mike Huckabee shows in this video.

Mike Huckabee, while talking about the swine flu during his show on the FOX news channel, outlines a great rationale for Obama to make this nation safer. Not through stopping the swine flu, but by stopping abortion.

Watch the video: http://www.onenewsnow.com/Blog/Default.aspx?id=515156

Purse strings to Planned Parenthood - snip, snip

Charlie Butts - OneNewsNow -

Orange County, California, will stick with its move to not use money from a tobacco lawsuit settlement for abortion.

Some of the funds had been sent the way of Planned Parenthood, but the Orange County Board of Supervisors decided recently to rescind the contract. In its most recent meeting, supervisors voted to reinstate the funds for the final two months of the contract, but then adopted a policy to not spend the money with any abortion-related group in the future.

http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=513272

Pro-lifers granted chance to defend themselves in court

Charlie Butts - OneNewsNow -

The Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a federal judge's decision against two pro-life advocates.

Randall Wenger of the Independence Law Center and Alliance Defense Fund tells OneNewsNow his two clients -- Edward Snell and John McTernan -- simply wanted to peacefully picket and hand out literature to women entering a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in York, Pennsylvania. "But the police officers outside of the clinic, who are paid for by Planned Parenthood, gave the pro-life counselors a really hard time, arrested one of them for entering the alley to try to talk to the women who were entering the alley, and another one was threatened with arrest," he explains.

http://www.onenewsnow.com/Legal/Default.aspx?id=511258

The Profitable Nonprofit

By David N. Bass

Left-wing activists are indignant at obscene oil company profits, hefty CEO bonuses, and sweet golden parachutes -- but what about expansion of the No. 1 violator of human rights in the United States?

No, it's not Dick Cheney and the CIA. It's Planned Parenthood. The abortion giant took home $85 million in "excess of revenue over expenses" (a nifty way of saying profits) and had an operating budget of over $1 billion for the 2007-2008 fiscal year, according to its latest annual report. Included in that budget was $350 million in "government grants and contracts" (an equally nifty way of saying your tax dollars). An increase in the number of abortions performed helped fuel the profits.

http://spectator.org/archives/2009/04/27/the-profitable-nonprofit

Rep. Fortenberry challenges Hillary Clinton on taxpayer supported abortions internationally

Watch video: http://www.onenewsnow.com/Blog/Default.aspx?id=500996

Memphis abortion clinic exposed for hiding statutory rape

Charlie Butts - OneNewsNow

Live Action has completed a fifth undercover investigation of a Planned Parenthood abortion facility.

Twenty-year-old Live Action president Lila Rose entered a Memphis Planned Parenthood abortion clinic posing as a 14-year-old girl impregnated by a 31-year-old boyfriend. All of the conversation was captured on video. "Planned Parenthood had told that vulnerable young girl that, first of all, she wasn't going to tell anyone even though that she was supposed to, to lie about the age of the 31-year-old supposed boyfriend and say he was only 17 years old to a judge so that little girl could qualify for a parental consent waiver," Rose recounts.

http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=496928

Texas takes aim at Planned Parenthood

Charlie Butts - OneNewsNow

The state of Texas has shut down four Planned Parenthood abortion facilities in San Antonio that were operating without licenses.

Clinic officials say it is a matter of miscommunication, claiming that they were told no licenses were needed because they do not conduct surgical abortions. Jonathon Saenz of Free Market Foundation does not accept that.

http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=493780

Child advocates urged to investigate abortion chain

Charlie Butts - OneNewsNow

Undercover investigations of Planned Parenthood still haven't produced action by prosecutors in most states.

Three pro-life groups -- Live Action, Students for Life, and Life Dynamics, Inc. -- have conducted undercover probes of Planned Parenthood facilities around the country, proving that staff members have offered underage children abortions and given advice on how to avoid getting their impregnator -- sometimes 10 years older than the girls -- in trouble with the law.

http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=489512

Minority-targeted abortion a 'grotesque' trend in America

Jim Brown - OneNewsNow

A bill recently introduced in Congress would criminalize sex-and race-selection abortion.

Congressman Trent Franks (R-Arizona) and colleague Jeff Fortenberry (R-Nebraska) are co-sponsoring the Susan B. Anthony/Frederick Douglass Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act. The bill would ban people from performing or soliciting funding for race- or sex-selected abortion.

http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=480696

Lawmakers declare fetuses to be people, too

Drew Zahn

Legislative bodies in two states voted this month to define the beginning of human life – and human rights – at conception.

On Feb. 17, North Dakota's House of Representatives voted 51-41 to approve a bill that declares "any organism with the genome of homo sapiens" – even one not yet born – is a person protected by rights under the state's constitution.

Yesterday, the Montana Senate voted 26-24 to approve S.B. 406, a constitutional Personhood Amendment that states, "All persons are born free and have certain inalienable rights. ... Person means a human being at all stages of human development of life, including the state of fertilization or conception, regardless of age, health, level of functioning or condition of dependency."

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=90241

Tolkien's Dark Lord at the UN; a Blessed Painter

Elizabeth Lev

Although the Christian community and Iran find themselves opposed on many issues, it was a heartening vision to see the diverse nations cooperating in defense of alliance and dialogue through the culture of life. But as in Tolkien's great adventure of the fellowship of the nine, it was the smallest of all that saved the day. Like the four indomitable hobbits of Tolkien's epic, the Holy See (a tiny 104-acre state), Comoros (which I had to look up on Googlemaps -- it's in the Indian Ocean near Madagascar) Santa Lucia and Malta all joined the fellowship to break the stranglehold of the forces of evil.

These four hobbit-like states, whose collective national products probably don't equal the operating budget for Planned Parenthood, spoke loudly and convincingly. Malta decried the consistent attempts by the commission to expand "reproductive health" to include abortion. The delegate from Santa Lucia saw to the heart of the proposed wording and stressed that her delegation understood that this provision did not threaten the right of health care providers to refuse to perform or be complicit in abortions as a matter of conscience.

As Galadrial said to the wavering Frodo, "even the smallest person can change the course of the future."At the last moment at the close of the meeting, the ring of power was thrown back into the fires of Mount Doom from whence it came. "Sexual and reproductive health and rights" was struck from the text.

In these days of imminent conscience coercion, massive government funding of abortion and other gloomy signs on the horizon, this little fellowship at the United Nations demonstrated what Tolkien's characters whisper during the darkest hours and Pope Benedict XVI exclaims from nation to nation: "There is still hope."

http://www.zenit.org/article-25617?l=english

Planned Parenthood Annual Report: Abortion Totals, Government Funding Increase

by Steven Ertelt, LifeNews.com Editor April 8, 2009

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The Planned Parenthood Federation of America has released its annual report for fiscal year 2007-2008. The document shows the nation's largest abortion business is getting bigger as it showed an increase of five percent more abortions and increased taxpayer funding.
According to Planned Parenthood's latest report, abortions increased to 305,310 abortions up from 289,750 in 2006.
That 5.3 percent increase came at a time when the Alan Guttmacher Institute, it's former research arm, showed abortions were at near-historic lows.

http://www.lifenews.com/nat4978.html

What an image

Sheila Liaugminas Monday, 30 March 2009

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City over the weekend. She admired the image, and asked who painted it.
The image of Our Lady of Guadalupe was miraculously imprinted by Mary on the tilma, or cloak, of St. Juan Diego in 1531. The image has numerous unexplainable phenomena, such as the appearance on Mary’s eyes of those present in the room when the tilma was opened and the image’s lack of decay.
So Msgr. Diego Monroy, who escorted Clinton at the shrine, explained the origin, and that it wasn’t painted by human hand. Clinton then told Msgr. Monroy that she had previously visited the old Basilica in 1979, when the new one was still under construction. Somehow, the story of this centuries-old devotion and its origin must have escaped her in that visit. But at least now she knows.
After placing a bouquet of white flowers by the image, Mrs. Clinton went to the quemador –the open air area at the Basilica where the faithful light candles- and lit a green candle.
Leaving the basilica half an hour later, Mrs. Clinton told some of the Mexicans gathered outside to greet her, “you have a marvelous virgin!”
Actually, we. She may like to know that the Virgin of Guadalupe is also the patroness of the Americas, which includes the US.
She’s also known as the ‘patroness of the unborn’.
So what’s wrong with this picture? This evening Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is set to receive the highest award given by Planned Parenthood Federation of America — the Margaret Sanger Award, named for the organization’s founder, a noted eugenicist.

http://www.mercatornet.com/sheila_liaugminas/view/what_an_image/

Pro-abortion Sebelius signs ultrasound bill

Charlie Butts - OneNewsNow
In advance of a confirmation hearing before a Senate panel on Tuesday, Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius has signed a bill to provide sonograms to women considering abortion.

Associated Press reports that the bill, which was signed on Friday, requires abortion providers who use ultrasound or monitor an unborn baby's heartbeat to give their patients access to the images or sound at least 30 minutes before an abortion. The measure takes effect July 1.

http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=470724