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Planned Parenthood Ignores Medical Info; Lies to Patients

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Lila Rose and Live Action Films, the constant thorns in the side of Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry, released yet another undercover video today chronicling how a Planned Parenthood staffer gives erroneous medical information to a woman seeking to obtain an abortion in Indiana.

The clinic staffer gives several misleading and incorrect statements regarding abortion:

 1)      The staffer says that the baby’s heart starts to beat around the 8th or 9th week. In reality, the heart starts beating at 22 or 23 days.

2)      The staffer says that abortion is “safer than carrying to term.” In reality, 2009 study from the Obstetrical and Gynecological Survey recently found that a previous abortion increased a woman’s risk of pre-term birth by 20%, and a 2003 report from the Shanghai Institute of Planned Parenthood Research notes a 55% increased risk of future miscarriages for women who have abortions.

3)      The staffer says that there won’t be any problems to have children down the road after an abortion. In reality, there’s a 50% increased risk of an ectopic pregnancy after a single abortion (American Journal of Public Health, 1998), previous abortions increase the risk of premature birth by 20% in later pregnancies (Journal of Perinatal Medicine, 2009) and abortion increases the risk of miscarriage

In Indiana, there is an informed consent law that requires women to be given medically accurate information. The data cited from Live Action isn’t from pro-life centered groups but rather from medical studies and non-affiliated organizations.

Planned Parenthood obviously could care less about the kind of information it gives to convince woman to have abortions. Oh, and in case you missed it, you, the taxpayer, are footing the bill for this kind of “counseling” and abortion procedures thanks to the hundreds of millions of tax dollars Planned Parenthood gets each year – and they’ll be getting more due to the new healthcare law.

Live Action – www.liveaction.org

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So Called Ban on Abortion Funding – Anti-Catholic History – Faith vs Works

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I thought there is no public funding of abortion?

I wonder what Sister Carol Keehan, Bart Stupak and all the so-called Catholic health organizations think about U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi receiving an award from abortion giant Planned Parenthood in recognition of her efforts in ensuring that the abortion funding ban was not inserted in ObamaCare. Never mind, I don’t want to know.

History and Catholicsim:

I’m not looking to re-fight the Thirty Years War or defend all the actions of Mary I of England, but this interesting article should remind all Catholics that most of the history books we read are written by people that at their core are anti-catholic. If you like to read a good history of the Catholic Church to recommend Harry Crocker’s book:

Faith vs Works?  I choose Christ.

The New Oxford Review has a wonderful piece by Stephen Rombouts. He takes on the debate between faith versus works and talks about having a “truly personal relationship with Jesus” through the Eucharist.

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The Kagan Abortion Distortion Spreads

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We’ve highlighted Shannen Coffin’s analysis of documents  from Obama Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan concerning partial-birth abortion. It is interesting to see how far her distortion from in 1996 spread. 

When she twisted the words of The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) her distortion entered the bloodstream of American political debate. In documents released by the Clinton library, Elena Kagan commented that it “would be a disaster” if the ACOG memorandum would become public.  ACOG stated “the vast majority of cases, selection of the partial-birth procedure is not necessary to avert serious adverse consequences to a woman’s health.” Instead she pushed aside science and in search of a political victory and proposed the ACOG include the following language “An intact D&X [medical term for partial birth abortion], however, maybe the best the most appropriate receipt you’re in a particular circumstance to save the life or preserve the health of a woman.”

12 years later the Senator Obama refers to the ACOG statement in his pro abortion speech to Plannned Parenthood:

Obama ends his speech with these words: “It’s time for us to change that. It is time for a different attitude in the White House. It is time for a different attitude in the Supreme Court. It is time to turn the page and write a new chapter in American history.”

These are words to remember during this political season as we begin to turn the page on the last two years of American history.

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ALERT: Military Facilities May Be Able To Do Abortions

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As if forcing Americans to pay for abortions through the healthcare law wasn’t enough, now the Obama Administration is trying to repeal the longstanding policy that military health care facilities may not be used to perform elective abortions.

Senator Roland Burris (D-IL), who filled Obama’s senate seat after he was elected president, was the one to introduce an amendment to strip this language from current law.

As it stands now, the Senate will most likely take up this legislation after they come back from the July 4th recess next week. Senators will be home this weekend so look for opportunities to meet with them if you can.

Both the Most Reverend Timothy Broglio, Archbishop for the Military Services, and Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, Chairman of the Bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities, have sent letters to the U.S. Senate, urging that the defense authorization bill not be approved until the Burris Amendment is reversed and the current law upheld. For texts of these letters, see: nchla.org/docdisplay.asp?ID=339 and nchla.org/datasource/idocuments/CardinalDiNardoMilitaryLetter.pdf .

And contact your Senators and tell them that you do not support our military facilities taking life -they are there to rehabilitate and save lives, not to do abortions.

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Pro-Life Foundation Helps Expectant Mothers Choose Life

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The Paul Stefan Foundation is an amazing mission.  It was inspired from the tragic experience of a family told to get an abortion and through the prayers of a parish priest in Novena to St. Andrew and at the shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe.  Read this inspiring story here.

Since its 2006 founding, the PSF has helped over 70 women and babies.  While they maintain three homes in Virginia, they are looking to open homes in Maryland soon, as well as in other parts of the country.

These homes are not only a great mission that SMS encourages our fellow Catholics to support, they are also important to our pro-life mission to overturn Roe vs Wade.  Overturning Roe is inevitable, and when it is overturned these life or death decisions will be left to the states to legislate.  An argument long used by pro-abortion advocates is what do you do with women who are pregnant and abandoned or abused who cannot afford a baby.  The answer is the Paul Stefan Foundation and its Homes for Expectant Mothers.

The PSF just announced that its 3rd Annual Celebration of Life Gala will be in Historic Fredericksburg, VA on September 25 and will feature former Virginia First Lady Susan Allen and acclaimed pro-life Catholic Doctor John Bruchalski, Founder and President of the Tepeyac Medical Center and Divine Mercy Care.

For more information on the event or how you can support this important mission read below.

Former First Lady of Virginia, Susan Allen, To Headline Virginia “Celebration of Life” Event for Expectant Mothers and Newborns

Fredericksburg, VA—The Paul Stefan Foundation, a Virginia-based charitable organization dedicated to providing homes for expectant mothers and their newborns, announced today that Susan Allen, former First Lady of Virginia, will be a featured speaker at the organization’s Third Annual “Celebration of Life” Gala Event to be held September 25, 2010 at the Fredericksburg Expo Center.

The former First Lady joins acclaimed Doctor Dr. John Bruchalski, Founder of the Tepeyac Medical Center and Divine Mercy Care as a featured speaker. Tickets for the event can be purchased by calling 540-854-2300, or online at http://www.paulstefanhome.org/celebration-of-life-gala/

“I am so excited to be a part of this event and this great cause.  When you see how the Paul Stefan Foundation, with its three homes in Virginia, is helping expectant mothers in need and their newborns, it is inspiring and incredibly heart-warming.  I look forward to seeing and meeting others in support of this cause at the Gala.  It will be a truly beautiful evening in so many ways,” Ms. Allen said.

Founded in 2006, The Paul Stefan Foundation www.paulstefanhome.org

operates three homes in Virginia, two in Orange County and one in Fairfax.  Since opening its doors to pregnant women in need, the PSF has helped over 70 women and newborns.  The Foundation was inspired through a Catholic priest, Father Stefan Starzynski, and by the death of Baby Paul Stefan James, who died less than an hour after birth.   Learn more about this miraculous story at http://bit.ly/bx2kCM

“We are so grateful to Ms. Allen for accepting our offer to speak at this year’s event.  She is an inspiration to us all and we are extremely honored to have her involved in our cause,” said Randy James, CEO of the Paul Stefan Foundation.

“We hope that with such great speakers this year to further enhance our cause of saving women and babies in a more ecumenical way.  There are so many women right here in Virginia, who find themselves pregnant, abandoned, some abused, others living out of their cars — they have no where to turn.  It is the goal of our Foundation to provide these women and their pre-born babies homes of safe haven where they will receive loving care, support and nourishment necessary for their further growth and development,” said Evelyn James, Director of Homes for the PSF.

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Abortion Distortion By Obama Nominee

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Shannen Coffin has an INCREDIBLE piece running on NRO today on the abortion issue and a partial birth abortion case. It is a chilling example of how Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court Elena Kagan cooked the legal books for political gain.

When President Obama promised in his Inaugural Address to “restore science to its rightful place,” he never explained what that rightful place would be. Documents recently released in connection with the Supreme Court nomination of Solicitor General Elena Kagan suggest an answer: wherever it can best be used to skew political debate and judicial outcomes.

 The documents involved date from the Clinton White House. They show Miss Kagan’s willingness to manipulate medical science to fit the Democratic party’s political agenda on the hot-button issue of abortion. As such, they reflect poorly on both the author and the president who nominated her to the Supreme Court.

 

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From the Lips of Walter Dellinger to the Ears of God

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What was probably a publicity stunt to energize pro-abortion activists on the eve of the nomination hearings of Obama’s latest Supreme Court pick Elena Kagan, former acting Solicitor General Walter Dellinger predicted Tuesday night that the Supreme Court will overturn Roe vs. Wade, the landmark decision that brought about the murder of millions of children.  The POLITICO today reports: 

The noted liberal scholar said the 1973 decision has become a “trophy” that the court’s conservative bloc could overturn if a Republican president chooses a replacement for Justice Anthony Kennedy.

“I absolutely believe it,” Dellinger said during a forum cosponsored by POLITICO. 

“For a while I thought that one could simply chip away at a lot more and more regulations that sort of protected access (to abortions) for the most affluent women but really made it impossible for women who were vulnerable to geography, poverty (and) youth,” he added. “But now I think that, actually, it is such a symbol of a kind of jurisprudence that conservatives have set themselves in opposition to.” 

Catholics need to be engaged.  Information on Elena Kagan found here and Students for Life has organized a petition.  Sign it here.

 

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IVF Babies Being Aborted

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One of the arguments against in-vitro fertilization that the Catholic Church makes is that a baby should not be made into commodity – something that is bought or sold at whim….and something that can easily be discarded. IVF is a tough subject because of all the emotions that go into truly wanting to have a child and being unable to for some reason or another. There are many heartbreaking stories of childless parents who would do anything to conceive and bring a child into the world.

But as Pope John Paul II taught, the end cannot justify the means: “It is not licit to do evil that good may come of it.”[iv]

And now we come to a story that exemplifies how having a baby through IVF turns a baby into a commodity.

“About 80 unborn babies conceived by in vitro fertilization (IVF) are eliminated by abortion each year in Great Britain, according to a new report…. The statistics from Britain’s Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) show an increasing number of women are choosing abortion for ‘social,’ rather than medical reasons after becoming pregnant by IVF, The Times reported June 6.” 

It’s not like these women had an unexpected pregnancy. They aborted mostly for “social” reasons, reasons that (not to be judgmental) put the lives of their baby on the backburner and put their needs and wants above anything else. One woman said that her marriage was falling apart at the time she got pregnant via IVF and that she “didn’t want any link” that would force her to stay in touch with her husband. Not to say that a marriage wouldn’t fall apart if the baby was conceived through the loving marital act of selfless giving of each other, but it just seems so cold that the resulting child in this situation would merely be a link to her husband and not the result of love, even if it no longer exists, a human person in its own right.

As R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, wrote on his blog: “We are witnessing the elevation of personal autonomy, personal happiness, and personal fulfillment to levels that can only be described as idolatry.”

 If this is happening in Great Britain, the likelihood that the same thing is happening in the US is very high. When will we wake up to the atrocities of trying to play God?

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More than $1 Billion of Your Money Spent on Abortion

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LifeSiteNews.com is reporting that Rep. Pete Olson (R-Tex.) has exposed that taxpayers have funded pro-abortion groups for years.  

At a press conference on Wednesday in Washington, D.C., members of Congress and pro-life advocates unveiled the GAO findings. According to the report, Advocates for Youth received a total of $8.7 million (2002-2009); the Guttmacher Institute, $12.7 million (2002-2008); International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), $93.8 million (2002-2009); Planned Parenthood Federation of America, $657.1 million (2002-2008); Population Council of the United States, $284.3 million (2002-2008); Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS), $1.6 million (2002-2009).

 

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Writings of Supreme Court Nominee Kagan

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For two weeks on Friday afternoon the Clinton Library released public documents belonging to President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan.  Writings from her time in the Clinton White House are quite troubling.  Carrie Severino of the Judicial Crisis Network has written extensively concerning the documents and posted summaries here and here. Catholics and people of faith should be concerned about these points:

Abortion.  Kagan helped President Clinton articulate his position against the Hyde Amendment and in favor of federal funding of abortion.  She corresponded with the Legal Director of NARAL regarding trying to slow the progress of passage of the Child Custody Protection Act which would have made it a federal offense to transport a minor across a state line for an abortion to avoid parental consent laws.

On the other side of the issue, Kaganrecommended for political reasons that President Clinton sign a partial birth abortion ban with Daschle’s amendment for a health exception, despite his own Department of Justice advising him that such a law would be unconstitutional and his administration’s general opposition of the law.  Of course the breadth of the term “health” as legally interpreted is sufficient to make any ban on partial birth abortion practically meaningless, and in 2007 the Supreme Court found that even a ban of the procedure without a health exception was constitutional.
 
Kagan believes the constitution contains a nearly unfettered right to partial-birthabortion, an extreme position the Supreme Court ultimately rejected.  She opposed a ban on partial-birthabortion, even one with an exception for the mother’s health, because she believed it took away one “safe” abortion technique from abortion providers and thus burdened the right of women to abort their pre-viable children for literally any reason they pleased.  The Supreme Court, by contrast, upheld a partial birth abortion ban even without a health exception and cited the state’s substantial interest in “promoting respect for human life at all stages in the pregnancy” by not allowing “a doctor to pierce the skull and vacuum the fast-developing brain of [a mother’s] unborn child, a child assuming the human form.”
 
Religious language.  Kagan was asked to clean up a video-taped speech given by the President commemorating the 25th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. She appears to have recommended deleting the “God bless you” salutation at the end of the speech.
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