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NJ Governor Cuts Planned Parenthood Funding

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The ramifications of the nation swinging back to conservative roots is apparent in, of all places, liberal New Jersey.

Yesterday, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, a Roman Catholic, delivered a second punch to Planned Parenthood, removing a waiver that would have let the abortion giant get reimbursed with taxpayer dollars for services, including abortion.

A Planned Parenthood representative supposedly said this move could force them to close 4 of their 5 centers.

Just recently when Governor Christie released the state budget, he eliminated $7.6 million in family planning services, most of which went to Planned Parenthood.

NJ Right to Life clarifies that the “family planning” money the state gives to organizations like Planned Parenthood isn’t supposed to fund abortion but that is essentially refunds PP for performing abortions. Supposedly taxpayer dollars can’t fund abortions and abortion facilities have to keep funds separate if they go to an organization that does abortions.

“Their clinics make a profit from referring for abortion and they then refer the minor girl to one of their clinics that perform abortions. It’s time this gravy train ended. Taxpayers should not be funding this organization. Governor Christie should be commended for this courageous move,” [Marie]Tasy, [President of NJ Right to Life] added.

How right Ms. Tasy is. As readers of this blog know well, Planned Parenthood has been caught numerous times failing to report child rape and abuse and helping a minor get around pesky parental notification and consent laws in order to make sure the girl has an abortion.

NJ joins seven other states who have also cut funds to Planned Parenthood for both abortion and non-abortion services. If you want to thank Gov. Christie, you can contact him here http://www.state.nj.us/governor/contact.

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

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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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Bart Stupak’s Betrayal

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For the Editors of St Michael Society, the shock over Bart Stupak’s betrayal this weekend has begun to turn into anger and grief. Its one thing to cave to pressures and intimidation but Stupak’s speech on the House floor sheds new light on the man. This was not a man who changed his vote because he was worn down by attacks. Bart Stupak’s speech on the House floor revealed a man, who in the end, decided to put the Democratic Party ahead the life of the unborn, the lives of women who will suffer from abortion, obedience to the bishops and sadly his faith. We need to pray for him and we must work to undo the damage he has done.

Here are the writings of respected voices on the topic:

Kathryn Jean Lopez:  

Unfortunately, if Bart Stupak truly wanted to ensure that human dignity was respected in this legislation, he wouldn’t have surrendered. But surrender he did — and then some, declaring the Democratic party the protectors of the unborn on the House floor last night.

The Democratic party is nothing of the sort — which is another reason no one who wanted to defeat the taxpayer funding of abortion in Obamacare should have expected a Stupak-led victory in this Washington environment. It’s the party that will never offend the abortion industry. It’s the party that owns partial-birth abortion.

William McGurn

By caving at the last hour, he discredited all who stood with him. (What does it say about Ohio’s Marcy Kaptur and Pennsylvania’s Chris Carney that they had already agreed to vote yes even before the fig leaf of the executive order had come through?) In addition to undermining an encouraging partnership with pro-lifers across the congressional aisle, Mr. Stupak signaled that, in the end, you can’t count on pro-life Democrats.

Susan B. Anthony List

Let me be clear: any representative, including Rep. Stupak, who votes for this healthcare bill can no longer call themselves ‘pro-life.’ The Susan B. Anthony List Candidate Fund will not endorse, or support in any capacity, any Member of Congress who votes for this bill in any future election. Now through Election Day 2010, these representatives will learn that votes have consequences. The SBA List Candidate Fund will work tirelessly to help defeat Members who support this legislation and make sure their constituents know exactly how they voted.

CWA

…in the 11th hour, he caved. He succumbed to the pressures of the most pro-abortion Administration in history just because they said they would write on a piece of paper that the federal government won’t fund abortion. It’s not even a law the President wrote. It’s not worth the Post-It note he wrote it on.

 Shame on you Bart Stupak. Shame on all the other Members who walked the plank with you. You all sold out and scorned millions of voters who trusted you and believed in you. 

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Catholic or Lobbyist First

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You have undoubtly heard the sad news of so called Catholic organizations supporting the current healthcare bill that funds abortions.  Kansas City, Kansas Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann has done great work the expose the true motives of these organizations.  He is also urging his flock to contact key members of Congress this week asking them to vote ‘no’ on the pro-abortion Senate Health Care Reform bill.  His advice is sound for all of us.

You can read the Archbishop’s letter here. Here are the key contact numbers for interested Catholics:

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From the Breviary – 3/15/10

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Yesterday, those of us in the Diocese of Arlington were asked to keep a day of prayer and fasting by Bishop Loverde to ask God’s protection and guidance for those who are crafting health care legislation.  I imagine that it is no accident that the petitions for Evening Prayer in the Divine Office for yesterday started off with these:

Glory to God the Father, who has promised through his Son to grant what is asked by those who pray together. With confidence in this promise, let us pray:
– Lord, save the people you have redeemed.

Lord, you gave the Law to Moses on Mount Sinai, and brought it to perfection in your Anointed One,
may all recognize the Law written in their hearts, and keep it faithfully as a covenant.
– Lord, save the people you have redeemed.

Give those in authority a true concern for their brothers and sisters entrusted to their care,
and inspire the hearts of the people to support their leaders.
– Lord, save the people you have redeemed.

It may be a good idea to keep these petitions close to you in the coming days and pray them everyday as we grow closer to a vote on this legislation.  We cannot know what God will allow to happen, but we do know that it is our job to pray for the best.

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Planned Parenthood Partners With Girl Scouts

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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 PR Machine Working Overtime

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Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion chain and recipient of over $350 million in taxpayer dollars per year, has had to deal with tons of negative press coverage in the past couple years thanks in large part to many African-American pastors and the undercover videos of Lila Rose.

The latest ordeal comes out of the billboard campaign in Georgia, which we wrote about last week. Georgia Right to Life put up several billboards centered around Atlanta that said black children are an “endangered species” and led viewers to the website www.toomanyaborted.com. Well, the billboards seem to be having an effect as one Georgia lawmaker, with bipartisan support, introduced The Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act, which would outlaw performing abortions based on race, sex or color.

As the Washington Times explains, “If enacted, the bill would make it illegal to knowingly solicit, perform or accept funding for race- or sex-selected abortions.”

And Planned Parenthood isn’t happy (of course). They don’t like it when they are accused of following in their foundress’ (Margaret Sanger) footsteps.

Planned Parenthood has been wrongly depicted as racist through “race-baiting phone calls,” added Dr. Vanessa Cullins, vice president for medical affairs for Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

Those “race-baiting calls” were made by James O’Keefe and Lila Rose. They called several Planned Parenthood clinics around the country and made blatant racists statements as they were trying to find out how to donate money specifically to abort a black baby. The reactions are sickening to listen to. Not one Planned Parenthood rep turned the money down.

What has Planned Parenthood done since then? Dr. Cullins says that they have retrained their staff to “recognize and handle such calls.” Ah yes, problem solved. Now what is Planned Parenthood going to do about the fact that 70% of Planned Parenthood clinics are located in urban neighborhoods where the majority of African-Americans reside?

Stay tuned for more on this topic. It isn’t going away anytime soon. In fact, Planned Parenthood is set to open up the largest abortion facility, 78,000 square feet, in the country in Houston in April. Guess where that’s going – right in the heart of two minority communities in Houston.

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The Ugly Truth Revealed

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It may come as a surprise to some but it’s worth noting that in the US,  nearly 40% of the abortions done are on black women, even though they only make 13% of the population. That is 3x the rate of white women. Since 1973, abortion has killed more African-Americans than anything else.

The New York Times, keying off of ingenious billboards plastered around Georgia that shed light on this disturbing statistic, ran a front-page article over the weekend “To Court Blacks, Foes of Abortion Make Racial Case.” Newsbusters has a thorough analysis of the overly bias nature of the story including that “blacks have a much higher abortion rate, but somehow this ‘old news’ is getting ‘exaggerated new life’ on the Internet.”

Even though the article was decidedly bias (hey, it’s the New York Times), it did reveal the campaign by Georgia Right to Life to put this issue on the table and make sure that African-Americans know that they are truly targeted by Planned Parenthood. Over 70% of Planned Parenthood clinics are located in urban neighborhoods where the majority of African-Americans reside. This isn’t a conspiracy, as the New York Times would like you to believe, but all out crisis in the black community.

The extremely high abortion rates have always been a problem but several prominent African-American pastors started a public campaign against Planned Parenthood when audio was released by Live Action Films in early 2008 that had a student posing as a donor who wanted to give money to specifically abort a black baby. The PP staffers were more than happy to take the money and earmark it for that purpose. One woman was “very excited” by the prospect. See all the tapes here: http://liveaction.org/index.php/projects/racism.

Several black pastors gathered in Washington, D.C. in April outside of a Planned Parenthood to expose the racism and targeting of Planned Parenthood, whose founder Margaret Sanger, was an ardent supporter of eugenics. They sent letters to Congress, to then-candidate Obama, to Hillary Clinton and asked that they defund Planned Parenthood.

The coalition of black pastors even went to the NAACP convention in 2008 to protest and play the tapes but police moved them to the other side of the road to get out of the way.

But they aren’t giving up. They have helped to promote movies like MAAFA21 which equates slavery to abortion and now they are taking to the billboards to make sure their own communities are aware of the grave threat facing them. Leaders like Alveda King, the niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speak frequently to crisis pregnancy centers on this issue and recount their own abortions.

 To learn more, go to http://www.toomanyaborted.com/.

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For the 10th Time on Tape: Planned Parenthood Covering Up Child Rape/Abuse:

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President Obama released his healthcare bill yesterday which gives an astounding $11 billion to “Community Health Centers” like Planned Parenthood. Today, Live Action Films, led by undercover student journalist Lila Rose (a Catholic by the way), released their 9th video, the 10th clinic, showing Planned Parenthood deliberately covering up child sex abuse.

The new undercover footage shows staff at a Milwaukee, WI Planned Parenthood abortion clinic counseling a purportedly 14-year-old girl not to tell anyone about her 31-year-old boyfriend and coaching her how to obtain an abortion without her parents’ consent.

In the video, after hearing the girl is 14 and her boyfriend is “much older,” the counselor says whether or not the situation will be reported by clinic workers “depends on the person you’re disclosing that information to.” When the girl says that her boyfriend is 31, the counselor tells her, “You don’t have to say anything” about the statutory rape and instructs her, “Just give them the information that’s needed.” The counselor also confirms that the 31-year-old “boyfriend” will be paying for the abortion.

The new video, ninth in a series from Live Action documenting similar behavior in 5 other states, comes amid recent controversy about Planned Parenthood’s compliance with state laws regarding minors and abortion.

Just a couple weeks ago, the Alabama Dept of Health put a Planned Parenthood clinic in Birmingham on probation for a year for several violations, including giving 2 abortions to a 13-year-old girl within 4 months and never notifying her parents. This is the same clinic that Lila Rose went undercover in, posing as an underage girl with a much older boyfriend and wanting an abortion.

If President Obama’s healthcare plan passes, Planned Parenthood will be getting billions of tax dollars to cover up child sex abuse cases like this.

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Big Week in Healthcare Coming Up

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A lot will be happening on healthcare next week. Not satisfied that the American people have soundly rejected their healthcare plans, that includes government-funding of abortion, President Obama, Harry Reid & Nancy Pelosi are back to pushing their own agenda hard.

President Obama is meeting with GOP leaders next Thursday, Feb. 25th, which will be aired live, to talk about coming up with a bi-partisan healthcare plan. But before that he will be releasing his own reconciliation healthcare bill and posting it online either late this weekend or Monday morning. The President wants this bill to be the starting point of negotiations during the GOP healthcare meeting.

Has Obama mentioned abortion? Of course he hasn’t. But here’s the thing. Abortion HAS to be addressed somehow in the healthcare bill. If there is no specific exclusion of abortion written into the bill, like the Stupak Amendment did, then you and I will be funding abortion through healthcare. Period.

Obama knows it. Pelosi knows it. Reid knows it. And Americans know it too. We’ve written on several national polls showing that Americans overwhelmingly disapprove of government-funding of abortion.

Thanks to the heroic efforts of Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI), Nancy Pelosi is going to have a heck of a hard time passing a healthcare bill in the House that doesn’t include his amendment.

Be vigilant. Read the new bill. And contact your legislators. Like we have said, healthcare reform isn’t over yet. Obama and his allies are desperate for a healthcare bill and they are desperate to pay back all the support they have received from the abortion industry. And from the looks for it, they will do anything whatsoever to get it.

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