After eight years working at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Bryan, Texas, including two years as its director, Abby Johnson suddenly decided that she could no longer participate in abortions. What pushed Johnson out was both an ultrasound of an abortion and a renewed emphasis on the cash-generating business in the failing economy. After being told to deemphasize prevention and market for abortions, Johnson finally had enough:
According to Johnson, the non-profit was struggling under the weight of a tough economy, and changing it’s business model from one that pushed prevention, to one that focused on abortion.
“It seemed like maybe that’s not what a lot of people were believing any more because that’s not where the money was. The money wasn’t in family planning, the money wasn’t in prevention, the money was in abortion and so I had a problem with that,” said Johnson.
Johnson said she was told to bring in more women who wanted abortions, something the Episcopalian church goer recently became convicted about. …
Johnson now supports the Coalition For Life, the pro-life group with a building down the street from Planned Parenthood. Coalition volunteers can regularly be seen praying on the sidewalk in front of Planned Parenthood. Johnson has been meeting with the coalition’s executive director, Shawn Carney, and has prayed with volunteers outside Planned Parenthood.
President Obama’s top science adviser said in a book he co-authored in 1973 that a newborn child “will ultimately develop into a human being” if he or she is properly fed and socialized.
“The fetus, given the opportunity to develop properly before birth, and given the essential early socializing experiences and sufficient nourishing food during the crucial early years after birth, will ultimately develop into a human being,” John P. Holdren, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, wrote in “Human Ecology: Problems and Solutions.”
“There seems little doubt that the forced bearing of unwanted children has undesirable consequences not only for the children themselves and their families but for society as well, apart from the problems of overpopulation,” wrote the authors.
“Those who oppose abortion often raise the argument that a decision is being made for an unborn person who ‘has no say,’” write the authors. “But unthinking actions of the very same people help to commit future unheard generations to misery and early death on an overcrowded planet.”
“The third approach to population control is that of involuntary fertility control,” write the Ehrlichs and Holdren. “Several coercive proposals deserve discussion mainly because societies may ultimately have to resort to them unless current trends in birth rates are rapidly reversed by other means.”
“Compulsory control of family size is an unpalatable idea, but the alternatives may be much more horrifying” the authors state at the end of the subsection. “As those alternatives become clearer to an increasing number of people in the 1970s, we may well find them demanding such control. A far better choice, in our view, is to begin now with milder methods of influencing family size preferences, while ensuring that the means of birth control, including abortion and sterilization, are accessible to every human being on Earth within the shortest possible time. If effective action is taken promptly, perhaps the need for involuntary or repressive measures can be averted.”
Dear Leader Obama has certainly surrounded himself by radicals. The worst thing about this guy is that unlike many of Obama's other czars, Holdren was approved by the Senate because he was also appointed to the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Sad. Let's hope America wakes up to this nonsense by 2012, or it might be too late.
If you are honest with yourself, you know that Obama's socialized health care will mean taxpayer subsidized abortions. For many, this is essentially aiding in the murder of a child. For those who pay taxes (people who statistically aren't getting many abortions) there really is not a whole lot of choice in the matter either.
Think for one moment if there was something embedded in this healthcare bill that was fundamentally against one of the primary points of view of the Islamic political groups, or blacks, or even illegal aliens (who are provided for under this healthcare system) in America today. There would be an uproar on the part of the specific group, and the media would report on it with the intensity of the death of a black celebrity. Obama would surely acquiesce to the pressure. But not if it's the Pro-Life groups.
Oh and just to make sure you get the point, Wonkette earlier this year ran the picture below: with the text Little baby Trig must be so glad he wasn't aborted for this, his first Halloween, because his parents dressed him up like a political party symbol to be carried around at snarling political events. Aww. Isn't life just grand?
Abortion doctor George Tiller's death is a travesty and a shame. The Pro-Life movement which was on the rise will take a large hit. Now, in no way do I endorse or approve or his murder whatsoever. Murdering a murderer is not only contradictory to all that the Pro-Life movement stands for, but it also causes the movement to lose credibility and unjustly so.
The mainstream media and pro abortion lobbyists will capitalize on this and already are doing so. Not because they truly feel for Tiller's grieving family, or because of the cold-blooded murder itself, but they want to portray the nonviolent pro-life movement in a blood thirsty and vengeful light. What you won't hear is that fact that Tiller's killer was not affiliated with any pro-life group or movement, and that his wife has reported that he has a history of mental illness.
The mainstream media and far left extremists will paint Tiller in the light of a martyr because of this. Despite the cold-blooded, unjust and hypocritical murder, Tiller was a baby killer. That doesn't change because of his murder. The fact that this is going to be overlooked and people won't know the real truth about Tiller is what concerns me.
Tiller was put on trial for criminal charges of illegal abortions. The law in Kansas says that you are supposed to have a peer physician sign off on late-term abortions, and that the reason must be to keep the woman healthy. This was the loophole Tiller was using, and the "peer physician" that signed off on these abortions actually had a close personal relationship with Tiller and for this he was put on trial. Keep in mind that many of the late term abortions that Tiller performed were on babies that are 21 to 27 weeks old. See below for a visual.
Check out some real life accounts of patients' experiences at Tiller's clinic here.
Here is a testimonial from of patient of Dr. Tiller's on Bill O'Reilly
I do not point out this things to endorse the killing of Dr. Tiller. It was an abhorrent act. But people who are watching the news now need to know the truth about Tiller, and not just that he was a martyr for the abortionist cause.
Just as the killing of George Tiller is a hypocritical and unjust act, so is the hypocracy of Barack Obama and the mainstream media. The outrage they have expressed over the killing of Tiller is justifiable and credable. However, their utter silence in the past on the record of Tiller killing babies is NOT. These late-term fetuses are humans. Late-term and partial birth abortions are ILLEGAL in his practicing state of Kansas and in most state with the exception of the previously mentioned mental health clause. This means that in the eyes of the laws these late term fetuses are people. How is the killing of one human any worse than the killing of 5000?
During President Obama's commencement speech at Notre Dame, he felt the need to justify his position on abortion. Fair enough.
However, throughout explaining the "logic" behind killing a baby, a child could clearly be heard crying. In the video below you can hear the baby especially well at 1:27 through 1:38.
How dare that baby interrupt the man who believes the child could just as well be dead right now.
Actress Cynthia Nixon wanted to wish mothers everywhere a happy mother's day. She decided to honor the occasion by promoting donations to Planned Parenthood abortion centers.
I am Cynthia Nixon. I am an actor, an activist, a mom, a daughter. But today, I am writing to you about motherhood, on behalf of Planned Parenthood and the many people they serve.
The truth is, in my book, there is no organization that supports motherhood more than Planned Parenthood..That's why I'm honoring the moms I know with a gift to Planned Parenthood today.
It's not easy to be a mother these days. Believe me, I know I'm lucky — I've had help and support — including the amazing, strong woman who blazed her own path to raise me as an independent, bold woman.
That's what Planned Parenthood is all about, too — providing the reproductive health care, education, and advocacy that help women everywhere to be healthy and to thrive. And right now — with more and more women seeking care from Planned Parenthood affiliate health centers — we need to do all we can to support them.
To me, it just makes sense: honor the courageous mothers who are raising kids, often in difficult situations these days, with a gift to the courageous organization that helps so many women.
As Mother's Day approaches, I am so grateful for the opportunity to make a difference and hope you'll join me.
This Mother's Day, you can make your gift in honor of someone you love. And the fine folks at Planned Parenthood will send that special person a special card saying you've chosen to make a gift to Planned Parenthood Federation of America in her or his name.
You'll be making a gift to millions of mothers — and to a generation of daughters and sons. What a profound way to mark this day.
Here's just a sample of what kind of action this company condones. Lila Rose, a UCLA student, recently went undercover posing as a 13 year old girl who was impregnated by her 31 year old boyfriend. What unfolds is pretty despicable.
In early February, George Washington University College Democrats faced accusations that some of its members defaced a pro-life display on campus. A campus affiliate of the pro-life conservative group Young America's Foundation had erected the pro-life display featuring crosses to remember babies killed in abortions.
The College Republican group then found some of the crosses in their offices left by the College Democrats. Here are a few pictures: Ah yes. Typical liberal tolerance. Is it only liberals who have the opportunity and the right to express their beliefs?
Now comes the good part. Officials at George Washington University have finally taken action in response to the February incident: the school officials named the College Democrats "Most Outstanding Student Organization of the Year." The award "recognizes organizations with exceptional performance in motivating and organizing fellow students to enhance campus life."
Why don't people like Carrie Prejean have the right to speak out in support of traditional marriage? Why don't people who are pro-life have the right to stand on a corner with signs to protest abortion? It seems increasingly so that the only form of free speech that is accepted in this society is that which conforms with liberal ideals. Source:LifeNews
Everyone needs to see this video. Frighteningly frank facts that are easy to understand and hard to dispute. Good luck making it through the next 1000 days everyone.
Jessica Ferrar D-TX, seen here holding a Planned Parenthood Public Affairs Award, has recently drawn up a bill to be introduced to the Texas Legislature this week. This bill pushes to make infanticide worthy of a mere wrist-slap.
A person commits an offense if the person willfully by an act or omission causes the death of a child to whom the person gave birth within the 12-month period preceding the child’s death
The bill says that infanticide should not be prosecuted as murder, though, as long as:
… at the time of the act or omission, the person’s judgment was impaired as a result of the effects of giving birth or the effects of lactation following the birth.
Infanticide would become a felony, punishable by no more than two years in prison, with a minimum of 180 days, and/or a fine of no more than $10,000.
There it is. The last part about lapses in judgment due to the birthing process is what makes it acceptable to liberals I suppose. This is what happens when human life is so devalued through other means such as abortion, that even the killing of a infant becomes acceptable. This would mean that Medea's murders mere misdemeanors it seems.
The first time I started to think about abortion was in 1960, when I was in second year medical school. I was assigned the case of a young woman who had died of a septic abortion. She had aborted herself using slippery elm bark.
I had never heard of slippery elm. A buddy and I went down to skid row, and without too much difficulty, purchased some slippery elm bark to use as a visual aid in our presentation. Slippery elm is not sterile, and frequently contains spores of the bacteria that cause gas gangrene. It is called slippery elm because, when it gets wet, it feels slippery. This makes it easier to slide slender pieces through the cervix where they absorb water, expand, dilate the cervix, produce infection and induce abortion. The young woman in our case developed an overwhelming infection. At autopsy she had multiple abscesses throughout her body, in her brain, lungs, liver and abdomen.
I have never forgotten that case.
After I graduated from University of British Columbia medical school in 1962, I went to Chicago, where I served my internship and Ob/Gyn residency at Cook County Hospital. At that time, Cook County had about 3,000 beds, and served a mainly indigent population. If you were really sick, or really poor, or both, Cook County was where you went.
The first month of my internship was spent on Ward 41, the septic obstetrics ward. Yes, it's hard to believe now, but in those days, they had one ward dedicated exclusively to septic complications of pregnancy.
About 90% of the patients were there with complications of septic abortion. The ward had about 40 beds, in addition to extra beds which lined the halls. Each day we admitted between 10-30 septic abortion patients. We had about one death a month, usually from septic shock associated with hemorrhage.
I will never forget the 17-year-old girl lying on a stretcher with 6 feet of small bowel protruding from her vagina. She survived.
I will never forget the jaundiced woman in liver and kidney failure, in septic shock, with very severe anemia, whose life we were unable to save.
Today, in Canada and the U.S., septic shock from illegal abortion is virtually never seen. Like smallpox, it is a "disappeared disease."
I had originally been drawn to obstetrics and gynecology because I loved delivering babies. Abortion was illegal when I trained, so I did not learn how to do abortions in my residency, although I had more than my share of experience looking after illegal abortion complications. In 1972, a couple of years after the law on abortion was liberalized, I began the practise of obstetrics and gynecology, and joined a three-man group in Vancouver. My practice partners and I believed strongly that a woman should be able to decide for herself if and when to have a baby. We were frequently asked to look after women who needed termination of pregnancy. Although I had done virtually no terminations in my training, I soon learned how. I also learned just how much demand there was for abortion services.
Providing abortion services can be quite stressful. Usually, an unplanned, unwanted pregnancy is the worst trouble the patient has ever been in in her entire life.
I remember one 18-year-old patient who desperately wanted an abortion, but felt she could not confide in her mother, who was a nurse in another Vancouver area hospital. She impressed on me how important it was that her termination remain a secret from her family. In those years, parental consent was required if the patient was less than 19 years old. I obtained the required second opinion from a colleague, and performed an abortion on her.
About two weeks, later I received a phone call from her mother. She asked me directly "Did you do an abortion on my daughter?" Visions of legal suit passed through my mind as I tried to think of how to answer her question. I decided to answer directly and truthfully. I answered with trepidation, "Yes, I did" and started to make mental preparations to call my lawyer. The mother replied: "Thank you, Doctor. Thank God there are people like you around."
Like many of my colleagues, I had been the subject of antiabortion picketing, particularly in the 1980s. I did not like having my office and home picketed, or nails thrown into my driveway, but viewed these picketers as a nuisance, exercising their right of free speech. Being in Canada, I felt I did not have to worry about my physical security.
I had been a medical doctor for 32 years when I was shot at 7:10 a.m., Nov. 8, 1994. For over half my life, I had been providing obstetrical and gynecological care, including abortions. It is still hard for me to understand how someone could think I should be killed for helping women get safe abortions.
I had a very severe gun shot wound to my left thigh. My thigh bone was fractured, large blood vessels severed, and a large amount of my thigh muscles destroyed. I almost died several times from blood loss and multiple other complications. After about two years of physical and emotional rehabilitation, with a great deal of support from my family and the medical community, I was able to resume work on a part-time basis. I was no longer able to deliver babies or perform major gynecological surgery. I had to take security measures, but I continued to work as a gynecologist, including providing abortion services. My life had changed, but my views on choice remained unchanged, and I was continuing to enjoy practicing medicine. I told people that I was shot in the thigh, not in my sense of humour.
Six years after the shooting, on July 11, 2000, shortly after entering the clinic where I had my private office, a young man approached me. There was nothing unusual about his appearance until he suddenly got a vicious look on his face, stabbed me in the left flank area and then ran away.
This could have been a lethal injury, but fortunately no vital organs were seriously involved, and after six days of hospital observation I was able to return home. The physical implications were minor, but the security implications were major. After two murder attempts, all my security advisers concurred that I was at increased risk for another attack.
My family and I had to have some serious discussions about my future. The National Abortion Federation provided me with a very experienced personal security consultant. He moved into our home and lived with us for three days, talked with us, assessed my personality, visited the places that I worked in and gave me security advice. In those three days, he got to know me well. After he finished his evaluation, when I was dropping him off at the airport, his departing words to me were "Gary, you have to go back to work."
About two months after the stabbing, I returned to the practise of medicine, but with added security measures. Since the year 2000, I have restricted my practise exclusively to abortion provision.
These acts of terrorist violence have affected virtually every aspect of my and my family's life. Our lives have changed forever. I must live with security measures that I never dreamed about when I was learning how to deliver babies.
Let me tell you about an abortion patient I looked after recently. She was 18 years old, and 18-19 weeks pregnant. She came from a very strict, religious family. She was an only daughter, and had several brothers. She was East Indian Hindu and her boyfriend was East Indian Muslim, which did not please her parents. She told me if her parents found out she was pregnant she would be disowned and kicked out of the family home. She also told me that her brothers would murder her boyfriend, and I believed her. About an hour after her operation I and my nurse saw her and her boyfriend walking out of the clinic hand in hand, and I said to my nurse, "Look at that. We saved two lives today."
I love my work. I get enormous personal and professional satisfaction out of helping people, and that includes providing safe, comfortable, abortions. The people that I work with are extraordinary, and we all feel that we are doing important work, making a real difference in peoples' lives.
I can take an anxious woman, who is in the biggest trouble she has ever experiences in her life, and by performing a five-minute operation, in comfort and dignity, I can give her back her life. After an abortion operation, patients frequently say "Thank You Doctor." But abortion is the only operation I know of where they also sometimes say "Thank you for what you do."
I want to tell you one last story that I think epitomizes the satisfaction I get from my privileged work. Some years ago I spoke to a class of University of British Columbia medical students. As I left the classroom, a student followed me out. She said: "Dr. Romalis, you won't remember me, but you did an abortion on me in 1992. I am a second year medical student now, and if it weren't for you I wouldn't be here now."
There are people out there who have really justified the killing of innocent humans in their minds. There is no other explanation for someone that could do something as cowardly as taking a baby's life. And it is clear to see, people like this coward are out there, and they think what they are doing is not just OK, but a great service to mankind. I don't feel bad for this man. The attempts on his life are wrong, but he takes lives everyday, and at least he was given a chance at life from the beginning.
"I notice everyone who is pro-choice has already been born."
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