The Pill: A Prescription for Breast Cancer?

Catholics have had a lot to cheer about lately. Midterm election victories for the unborn. Justice for those in office who betrayed the value of human life and have been voted out of office. Clear guidance from our Holy Father on how our conscience must vote.

But no matter who is in office, an alarming threat remains for women and their health: the widely used carcinogen known as The Pill. 

We are calling on St Michael Society members to become educated on the pill so that you can share the health dangers with the women you care about in your life.

The Birth Control Pill Isn’t Just a Catholic Issue

We know the Catholic Church opposes artificial contraception because it defies Natural Law and how God intended us to work with him in procreation. Even more serious, some of these contraceptives – like the Pill – can act as an abortifacient, ridding a mother’s body of her embryonic child without her even knowing she is pregnant.  But the consequences also go beyond Catholic morality …

In order to silence the public discussion of the harms of contraception we have often been told that we are pushing our ‘Catholic’ views on women. This has effectively kept many health care providers and pro-life groups silent on this issue. Do you know what has nothing to do with being Catholic? Experiencing breast cancer in your 30s, having a stroke in college, or having an undetected and sudden blood clot that results in permanent health damage or death are life-threatening side effects that visit women of all faiths.

This is according to Jennifer Giroux, registered nurse and executive director of HLI America. We’ve written about Ms. Giroux’s work before  and she has a new Zenit column with medical evidence from credible experts citing the connection between hormones in the Pill and deadly breast cancer.  

Read it in full here. 

But only if you’re willing to share it with friends and family who may need an unwelcomed wake-up call.

Because withholding information like this from a loved one may put their health – and their life – at risk. And  there are too many bad consequences in this life and the next that might result from silence.

Women deserve to know the truth. They have been failed by physicians in not being warned of the physical damage that they are doing to their bodies, and they have been failed by their priests in not being warned of the spiritual damage that they are doing to their souls.

May God give us the courage to share this with the women who matter most in our lives.

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In-School Clinic Arrange Abortion During School Hours; Mother Livid

The story is horrific enough – in Seattle, a mother finds out her 15-year-old daughter got an abortion during school hours that was arranged by the school’s health clinic.

But then throw in the fact that the girl took a cab to the Planned Parenthood clinic, who did the abortion, and was discouraged by staffers not to tell her parents or the abortion wouldn’t be free.

A nightmare by most parents’ standards.

Washington State does not have any parental consent laws. Megyn Kelly at Fox News has the story here:

This story falls directly in line with the multiple investigations of Planned Parenthood by student activist and undercover journalist Lila Rose. She has caught number PP clinics giving advice to underage girls on how to cover up their abortions by not letting their parents know about it. You can see the videos over at Live Action’s website: http://www.liveaction.org/index.php/projects/monalisa.

And while healthcare is still hot, we’ll add in here that the bill approved grants for school based clinics. The clinics themselves can’t do abortions, but there is nothing to stop them from shipping kids off for abortions (page 428).

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Planned Parenthood Partners With Girl Scouts

Planned Parenthood will never stop trying to infiltrate the youth of this nation (and around the world) with the message that casual sex is totally cool, that masturbation is a great way to learn about your body, and that there’s no right or wrong way to have sex. Planned Parenthood thrives on distributing contraception and conducting abortions on girls and women of all ages. And they’ve demonstrated time and again that they don’t even care if a girl is underage and pregnant – as long as someone pays for the abortion, even if it’s the older boyfriend or abusive father.

So is it any surprise that Planned Parenthood has partnered with the Girl Scouts of America to make sure the little girls know that “there are lots of different ways to have sex and lots of different types of sex”? And don’t forget to “Talk about or act out your fantasies. Talk dirty to (your sexual partner).” These are the little girls that sell you those famous Tagalong, Samoa, and Thin Mint cookies every year.

Last week Planned Parenthood handed out an explicit brochure entitled “Happy, Healthy and Hot,” to young girls at a panel at the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). The brochure is targeted to young adults with HIV and gives them explicit details on sexual experimentation.

The panel was co-moderated with the Girl Scouts and the YMCA.

C-FAM reports that this isn’t the first time the UN has hosted such a forum: “The New York Times recently reported that UN Population Fund had co-sponsored a very controversial curriculum with UNESCO, that included teaching children as young as five to be sexually active and training adolescents to advocate for abortion.”

Planned Parenthood, who gets $350 million tax dollars a year, and the UN need to stay out of the lives of these little girls and the Girl Scouts should cut off their partnership with both organizations.

Wendy Wright, president of Concerned Women for America, said it best: “Governments and NGOs should be aware of Planned Parenthood’s insidious plan to work with UN agencies and girls’ organizations in order to profit from encouraging kids to be sexually active.”

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Planned Parenthood Gets Shocked in Virginia

What a turn of events for Planned Parenthood in Virginia.

The largest provider of abortion in the country decided to try to get the state of Virginia to produce a counter-Choose Life license plate that says “Trust Women, Respect Choice” and have the proceeds to go Planned Parenthood.

Choose Life license plates are very popular and are available in 24 states while pro-abortion plates are available in 3 states. In Virginia, the proceeds go to Heartbeat International, a worldwide network of pregnancy resource centers.

Well, Planned Parenthood got a huge shock when the Virginia House of Delegates went to vote on the proposed license plate. One of the legislators decided to introduce an amendment that would send the proceeds to the Virginia Pregnant Women Support Fund instead of Planned Parenthood (it’s ok to laugh or cheer; we did).

The VA Pregnant Women Support Fund helps pregnant women with various kinds of support during unplanned pregnancies – basically they are the opposite of Planned Parenthood.

In a turn of events that sent Planned Parenthood into a tizzy, the House of Delegates passed the amendment and then passed the bill!

The grassroots manager of Planned Parenthood of Virginia, Courtney Jones, said: ”I’m outraged about the funds going to the Pregnant Women Support Fund because they don’t provide the same services as Planned Parenthood does.”

That’s right Courtney. The Pregnant Women Support Fund does not take the life of unborn children.

The Virginia State Senate passed a similar bill today but that version sends the money to Planned Parenthood so before a final bill is passed, both chambers will have to resolve the differences.

Let’s hope that the proceeds don’t go to Planned Parenthood since, among other reasons, their very mission is in opposition to the license plate’s message of trusting women. Planned Parenthood consistently opposes laws that are pro-woman like parental consent laws and a PP clinic in Birmingham just got put on probation for violations like giving a 13-year-old two abortions in 4 months without ever notifying her parents or the police (which is mandated by law since that kind of sexual relationship is child abuse).

Do you live in Virginia and want to contact your legislators about this bill and tell them not to send proceeds of the new plate to Planned Parenthood? Go here http://conview.state.va.us/whosmy.nsf/main?openform.

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CBS Under Pressure to Scrap Pro-Life Ad Featuring Football Star

Update II: Penny Nance, CEO of Concerned Women for America, finds it absurd that NOW is even talking about the Tebow ad since they never cared about preview ads that demeaned women:

In the 3½ years that I advised FCC Chairman Kevin Martin on indecency issues I can’t recall one time that NOW ever spoke out about the sexually graphic or misogynistic content on CBS.I find it laughable that NOW has a problem with Tim Tebow sharing his own story.

If NOW really cared about women they would stop flacking for the abortion industry and start working on behalf of women and their concerns regarding sexually graphic and violent content on TV.

Update: Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List, hits back at NOW’s (National Organization of Women) protests over the Tebow ad with a few zingers of her own as the pro-choice women’s group searches for a way to make itself relevant in an increasingly pro-life America:

NOW and company are losing their grip as their pro-abortion position sinks in public opinion. I had no idea NOW leaders were such experts on sports. Missed that part of their mission.   

 What is real here is their desperation to keep full information from women. Shouldn’t the “pro-choice” position respect Pam Tebow’s decision to choose Life?  What is the worst case scenario in allowing the ad to air?  Women are exposed to an example of sacrifice for the sake of an unborn child. NOW needs to explain where the harm and threat to women and children is here

 

University of Florida Gators Heisman Trophy winning, All-Star Quarterback, Tim Tebow, is an outspoken advocate for the unborn. Maybe that is because his mother was told to abort him and chose life instead. 

Feeling the need to share his story in celebration of life, Tebow has teamed up with the well-known, pro-life, pro-family organization Focus on the Family to air a 30 second commercial during this year’s Super Bowl.

If you have not heard about the ad, it is a very simple celebration of life on the part of a family.  As the AP describes it: 

We hope you will take time to either call or e-mail CBS and encourage them not to cave into pressure from the abortion industry and its advocates.  

Contact CBS:

Sean J. McManus

President CBS News and Sports

sjmcmanus@cbs.com

Phone: 212-975-4321

In the 3½ years that I advised FCC Chairman Kevin Martin on indecency issues I can’t recall one time that NOW ever spoke out about the sexually graphic or misogynistic content on CBS. I find it laughable that NOW has a problem with Tim Tebow sharing his own story. 

If NOW really cared about women they would stop flacking for the abortion industry and start working on behalf of women and their concerns regarding sexually graphic and violent content on TV.

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NCI Scientist Finally Admits to Abortion-Breast Cancer

You won’t find it reported on ABC, NBC, and CBS. You won’t read it on the front pages of any major national newspaper. Nor will we see any congressional investigation to learn more about the threat. For many years, the pro-life movement, as well as many scientists, doctors and medical professionals have warned about the risk associated between abortion and breast cancer.

Revelations from a well-known doctor at the National Cancer Institute confirm what many scientists, doctors and researchers have been saying for years.  Yes, there is a link between abortion and breast cancer. 

Earlier this year, Dr. Louise Brinton, chief of the National Cancer Institute’s Environmental Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, revised her comments and beliefs from a 2003 NCI study that suggested there was no link between abortion and breast cancer.

But now, six years later, after more thought and research, Dr. Brinton is now convinced of the link between abortion and breast cancer. Praise goes out to Dr. Brinton for studying the matter further and doing, well, what researchers, scientists, and medical professionals should be doing — finding the truth.

SMS congratulates our friend, and fellow blogger, Jill Stanek for a terrific story about Dr. Brinton’s concession.  Also, major congrats to pro-life Dr. Joel Brind, a biology and endocrinology professor who had co-authored a meta-analysis demonstrating an abortion/breast cancer link.  Dr. Brind is a true hero in this story as he has continuously pushed the connection between abortion and breast cancer and exposed the hypocrisy of the NCI on the issue.

Read it all here.

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Pro-Life Leaders Take to the Opinion Pages

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 Two opinion pieces published today hit the nail on the head when it comes to abortion and healthcare.

 Four powerhouse pro-life leaders, Dr. Charmaine Yoest (AUL), Marjorie Dannenfelser (SBA List), Kristan Hawkins (Students for Life) and David Bereit (40 Days for Life), call out Planned Parenthood and the rest of the abortion industry in today’s Washington Times for actively trying to mislead the public on the merits of the Stupak Amendment:

Earlier this month, New York Democratic Rep. Nita Lowey claimed that the Stupak-Pitts Amendment “puts new restrictions on women’s access to abortion coverage in the private health insurance market even when they would pay premiums with their own money.” Just days later, PolitiFact.com issued an analysis and said her comments were “false.”

Planned Parenthood’s cover has been blown. Before the vote on Stupak-Pitts, there were no uproars from the abortion lobby about government funding of abortion in the health care bill. There were no send-your-legislator-a-hanger campaigns. Why? Because they were hoping this issue would slip under the radar and that the bill would pass without any specific exclusion of abortion, which would ensure that abortion would certainly be funded by the government.

Read the whole thing here: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jan/06/abortion-funding-fiight-far-from-over/.

 And Kristan Hawkins has her own piece at CNSNews.com today as well talking about the Mikulski amendment that passed in the Senate that would provide government funding for “preventative healthcare.” Kristan makes the case that preventative healthcare would include abortion – and she has the knowledge to back it up.Kristan Hawkins and her son Gunner

As a mother of a son with cystic fibrosis, a genetic life-threatening disease, and pregnant with another son, who has a 25 percent chance of having the disease, I know the first “preventative” abortions will be performed on children diagnosed prenatally with incurable, expensive-to-treat genetic diseases.
 
Already, over 90 percent of babies prenatally diagnosed with Downs Syndrome are aborted. That’s certainly a “preventative” service.

 Kristan has become quite an expert on rationing of care in the healthcare bills and runs the website www.HealthcareForGunner.com to raise awareness.

See the full opinion piece here: http://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/article/59320

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Stupak Digs In As Nelson Sells Out on Abortion Funding in Health Care Bill

Senator Ben Nelson has sold out the unborn and has announced that he is ready to support Senator Harry Reid’s abortion funding health care bill.  If passed, Senator Reid’s health care bill will lead to the largest expansion of abortion since the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision allowing abortion on demand.  (One has to wonder what that decision would have been if the Court had been shown sonograms.) Nelson’s fascade came to an end when Reid offered money to Nelson for his home state of Nebraska. In return for this scam, Nelson has watered down his bill which will allow federal funding of abortion, but, oh, states can opt out of the government exchange if  they want.  This move undercuts the pro-life, pro-Hyde Stupak-Pitts Amendment.  But as Senator Nelson caves, Congressman Stupak is digging in, calling the Nelson abortion funding compromise, “unacceptable.”

Senator Ben Nelson

Senator Ben Nelson

 

Here is how the following days will play out.

The mangers amendment released by Senator Reid now appears to have the 60 votes necessary to end debate and pass the health care reform bill in the Senate. The first in a series of cloture votes (vote to end debate on an amendment or bill) is expected around 1 am Monday morning If all goes as currently projected, the Senate would pass the health care bill sometime next week If the Senate passes its bill, there will then likely be a House-Senate Conference to negotiate the differences between the House and Senate language.  The House and Senate would then have to approve the modifications made in the conference.  In a statement released today Pro-life Caucus Co-chair Bart Stupak (D-MI) said “While I and many other pro-life Democratic House members wish to see health care coverage for all Americans, the proposed Senate language is unacceptable.”

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops responded immediately to the Nelson abortion funding Amendment. Statement here.

For more information please visit:

www.stoptheabortionmandate.comNational Right to Life Committee, and Americans United for Life

How ironic that as we ready for the coming of our Lord in this Advent season, that during Christmas week, the week of the birth of our savior, the United States Senate is going to pass a health care bill that provides federal funding for the taking of  innocent human life.  

St. Michael Society is encouraging all of our friends, followers and supporters to please pray to our Holy Mother to continue to give Congressman Bart Stupak, and other supporting Democrats, the will and the courage to stand their ground and defend innocent human life against a wave of pressure.  We also pray to Our Holy Mother for the protection of the unborn and for a culture of life in the face of an America that continues to head further and further down the road toward a culture of death. 

Finally, we encourage all to call their Senators and Representatives and tell them, no to a health care bill that leads to a massive funding of abortion, essentially an abortion industry pay out, and no to government run health care that leads to rationed care and euthanasia.

Senate: 202.224.3121

House: 202.225.3121

 

 

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Lila Rose Attacked Outside Planned Parenthood in CA

headshot1In between conducting undercover stings of Planned Parenthood, 21-year-old Lila Rose takes other students and groups to abortion clinics to pray and provide information to women considering abortion.

 It was during one of these trips yesterday that she was attacked by an irate male Planned Parenthood escort.

 At approximately 11:50am on Thursday, December 17th, 2009, Live Action President Lila Rose was struck by a male uniformed Planned Parenthood escort. The attack occurred on a public sidewalk outside a Planned Parenthood affiliate located at 1691 The Alameda in San Jose, California.

 Apparently the male escort recognized Lila Rose and berated her and eventually struck her hands, flinging literature and the Bible to the ground. Police were called and charges are pending. There were several witnesses. Here is an account of what happened:

Rose, from the public sidewalk: “Sir, are you familiar with the abortion procedure?”
Escort approaches Rose rapidly from Planned Parenthood parking lot, says, “You idiot. You’ve caused so much trouble. You piece of crap.”
Rose offers to show Escort a picture: “Can I show you a picture of what it really does to a baby?”
The Escort strikes Miss Rose’s hand, knocking literature and Bible to the ground. Rose steps further back on sidewalk, Escort steps towards Rose.
Escort, visibly shaking, says, “It’s a woman’s choice!”
Rose says, “What about the baby’s choice?”
Escort says, “It’s not a baby!” Escort turns around and walks away.

The escort had his talking points down cold, following right in line with what counselors and abortionists say to women who ask them about their babies, as Rose caught in her latest undercover investigative project. See here for the latest video: http://www.liveaction.org/index.php/projects/rosaacuna.

This is another incident in a long list of increased violence against pro-lifers at abortion clinics. Planned Parenthood has offered no apologies.

Here is Lila Rose’s full statement: http://www.liveaction.org/index.php/media/press/111.

Please keep Lila and her team in your prayers as they continue to reveal what really happens behind the walls, and even on the streets, of Planned Parenthood.

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ACLU Files Suits to Block Personhood Initiatives

ACLU continues its drum beat against Personhood initiatives by filing a lawsuit in Alaska. This is the latest attempt by pro-abortion groups and the industry to prevent Personhood Initiatives from going to the ballot or using the courts to strike down the will of the people.   This has taken place in Colorado, Nevada, Missouri and now Alaska.

There are Personhood efforts under way in a number of other states.  Personhood USA is doing a great job on the front lines of this battle.  Check them out here and learn more on how you can help.

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