COLE COUNTY, Missouri, October 6, 2015 (LifeSiteNews)
– The "Satanic Temple" is suing both Missouri and the United States,
claiming that laws restricting abortion violate its members' "free
exercise" of religion. Now, this week, they responded to the governor's
and attorney general's motion to dismiss their suit.
The Satanic suit identifies abortion as an "essential religious duty"
for Satanists and opposes Missouri's "Informed Consent" and 72-hour
waiting period laws. Satanic Temple founder Doug Mesner (a pseudonym),
who goes by the Satanist name "Lucien Greaves," sued Missouri's governor, attorney general, and the state,
saying that Missouri's informed consent law violates the federal
Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA). "The question of when life
begins is absolutely a religious opinion," he claims.
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon and Attorney General Chris Koster, both
Democrats, responded by filing a motion to dismiss the suit, noting that
Satanist plaintiff "Mary Doe" was not religiously motivated to abort,
nor was she religiously motivated to abort her baby in less than 72
hours. Rather, she disagrees with the informed consent booklet's
scientific facts, medical information, and basic biology. Nixon and
Koster pointed out
that Missouri law does not require her to agree, or even read the
booklet; it only requires that a new mother be given a 72-hour chance to
read the facts, if she chooses to be informed.
Last week, attorneys for Mesner's "Satanic Temple" countered: "The
physical act does not necessarily have to be imbued with inherent
religious meaning[.] ... If the physical act – or abstention therefrom –
is motivated by a religious belief, then it is the 'exercise of
religion.'"
Mesner reacted to the governor and attorney general with ridicule.
"The laughable nature of their argument can't help but signify a certain
degree of desperation," Greaves told Raw Story.
"I'm pleased to see that our case is strong enough that this Motion to
Dismiss was the best Missouri could do. I think this bodes very well for
our prospects of a momentous victory in defense of reproductive
rights."
"Informed consent" laws are intended to educate a woman about the
facts of abortion and what's going on inside her body, and waiting
periods between initial contact and the major surgery of abortion are
intended to give mothers time to think the information over before
having irreversible major surgery.
Besides their state lawsuit, Mesner's group sued in federal court so
as to create a national precedent to stop not only Missouri's law, but
also abortion laws in other states. He says the Constitution's freedom
of religion includes the "Freedom to Believe When Human Life Begins."
The informed consent booklet's facts are "moot," Mesner argues, because
it is contrary to Mesner's "Satanic Temple" beliefs.
Mesner also argues that abortion restrictions violate the
Constitution's Establishment Clause, which prohibits the government from
establishing a religion.
Mesner's "religion" is an anti-religious movement, founded only three
years ago, which makes up its own "beliefs" and then seeks to use those
"beliefs" as the free exercise of established religion.
As the leftist publication Broadly admits, "[t]he Satanic Temple levy their beliefs to balance the scale in U.S. politics away from dominant Christian ideology."
Started in 2012 as a Facebook page, the "Satanic Temple" was founded
by Bostonians Mesner and "Malcolm Jarry" (a pseudonym), from an idea
hatched years earlier by Jarry, who reacted against President George W.
Bush's Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. Jarry thought it would be
cool to start a faith-based organization that could receive federal
funds but would be repugnant to what the Faith-Based Initiative stood for.
Neither Mesner nor Jarry, who was raised by non-practicing Jews,
actually believe that the Devil exists. In fact, their self-starter
"religion" is "totally opposed to supernaturalism," according to the
head of its St. Louis chapter, "Damien Ba'al." Their group's worship
focuses on dance music, porn rooms, phallic imagery, S&M behaviors, and nudity. The only requirements to be a member are to agree to its tenets and simply name oneself a member.
But Mesner and Jarry's new group has drawn more attention to Lucifer
than anyone since Anton LaVey, the San Francisco carnival worker who
wrote The Satanic Bible in 1969.
And as the New York Times put it, they have done so "with only a website, some legal savvy and a clever way with satire."
The Satanic Temple is fundraising for its state and federal lawsuits and has so far raised more than $33,000.
The Senate and House passed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act
(RFRA) in 1993 with the support of the Clinton White House. When
Congress first debated the RFRA, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops
and the National Right to Life Committee both expressed concerns that
it could be misused to create a "religious" right to abortion.
In July, the satanic group's Detroit chapter publicly unveiled a
9-foot-tall, one-ton statue of Satan. Audience members were required to
sell their souls to Satan in order to attend.
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WASHINGTON, D.C., October 2, 2015 (LifeSiteNews)
-- Top Democrat Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, won't say whether an unborn child
with a “human heart” and a “human liver” is a human being.
Pelosi, who is the Minority Leader in the House, was asked a question
about the issue by CNS News at a press conference last week. The
conservative news outlet asked, "In reference to funding for Planned
Parenthood: Is an unborn baby with a human heart and a human liver a
human being?”
Pelosi stumbled over her answer, saying, “Why don't you take your ideological questions--I don't, I don't have—”
CNS then asked her, "If it's not a human being, what species is it?”
It
was then that Pelosi got back on stride, swatting aside the question
with her accustomed reference to her “devout” Catholic faith.
“No,
listen, I want to say something to you,” she said. “I don't know who
you are and you're welcome to be here, freedom of this press. I am a
devout practicing Catholic, a mother of five children. When my baby was
born, my fifth child, my oldest child was six years old. I think I know
more about this subject than you, with all due respect.”
“So
it's not a human being, then?” pressed CNS, to which Pelosi said, “And I
do not intend to respond to your questions, which have no basis in what
public policy is that we do here.”
Pelosi has long used her self-proclaimed status as a “devout” practicing Catholic to promote abortion.
In response to a reporter’s question a proposed ban on late-term abortion in 2013, Pelosi said that the issue of late-term abortion is "sacred ground" for her.
"As
a practicing and respectful Catholic, this is sacred ground to me when
we talk about this," Pelosi said. "This shouldn't have anything to do
with politics."
In 2008, she was asked by then-Meet the Press host David Gregory
about when life begins. Pelosi said that "as an ardent, practicing
Catholic, this is an issue I have studied for a long time. And what I
know is that over the centuries, the doctors of the Church have not been
able to make that definition....We don't know."
The
Church has always taught that unborn human life is to be protected, and
that such life is created at the moment of conception.
New video: Planned Parenthood abortionist jokes about harvesting baby’s brains, getting ‘intact’ head
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WASHINGTON, D.C., October 5, 2015 (LifeSiteNews)
- In the newest video footage released by the Center for Medical
Progress, a Planned Parenthood abortionist laughs as she discusses her
hope of removing the intact "calvarium," or skull, of an unborn baby
while preserving both lobes of the brain.
She also describes how she first dismembers babies up to twenty weeks
gestation, including two twenty-week babies she said she aborted the
week before.
Dr. Amna Dermish, an abortionist with Planned Parenthood of Greater
Texas, told undercover investigators she had never been able to remove
the calivarium (skull) of an aborted child "intact," but she hopes to.
"Maybe next time," the investigator said.
"I know, right?" Dr. Dermish replied. "Well, this'll give me something to strive for."
Dermish, who performs abortions up to the 20-week legal limit in
Austin, then described the method she used to collect fetal brain and
skull specimens.
"If it’s a breech presentation [in which the baby is born feet first]
I will remove the extremities first - the lower extremities - and then
go for the spine," she began.
She then slides the baby down the birth canal until she can snip the spinal cord.
The buyer noted that intact organs fetch higher prices from potential buyers, who seek them for experimentation.
"I always try to keep the trunk intact," she said.
"I don't routinely convert to breech, but I will if I have to," she added.
Converting a child to the breech position is the first step of the
partial birth abortion procedure. The procedure has been illegal since
President Bush signed legislation in 2003 making it a federal felony
punishable by two years in prison and a fine of $250,000.
According to CMP lead investigator David Daleiden, who debuted the
video footage during an interview with Lila Rose on The Blaze TV, Dr.
Dermish was trained by Planned Parenthood's senior director of medical
services, Dr. Deborah Nucatola.
Dr. Nucatola was caught on the first CMP undercover video, discussing the side industry while eating a salad and drinking red wine during a business luncheon.
Between sips, she described an abortion process that legal experts believe is a partial birth abortion, violating federal law.
“The federal abortion ban is a law, and laws are up to
interpretation,” Dr. Nucatola said on the undercover footage. “So, if I
say on day one that I don't intend to do this, what ultimately happens
doesn't matter.”
Daleiden told Rose he hoped that Congressional investigators would
continue to pressure the organization about whether the abortion
technique it uses violates federal law, as well as the $60-per-specimen
fee the national organization has admitted some of its affiliates
receive.
Trafficking in human body parts for "valuable consideration" is also a
federal felony carrying a penalty of up to 10 years in prison and a
$500,000 fine.
"That would be enough to construct a criminal case against Planned Parenthood," Daleiden said.
October 5, 2015 (LiveActionNews)
-- In 1976, Dr. Anthony Levatino, an OB/GYN, graduated from medical
school and was, without a doubt, pro-abortion. He strongly supported
abortion “rights” and believed abortion was a decision to be made
between a woman and her doctor.
“A lot of people identify themselves as pro-life or pro-choice, but
for so many people, it doesn’t really touch them personally; it doesn’t
impact their lives in the way that I wish it would. If nothing more than
in the voting booth, if nowhere else,” said Levatino in a speech for
the Pro-Life Action League. “But when you’re an obstetrician /
gynecologist and you say I’m pro-choice – well, that becomes rather a
more personal thing because you’re the one who does the abortions and
you have to make the decision of whether you’ll do that or not.”
Levatino learned how to
do first and second trimester abortions. Thirty to forty years
ago, second trimester abortions were done by saline injection, which was
dangerous.
"For the first time in my
life, after all those years, all those abortions, I really looked, I
mean I really looked at that pile of goo on the side of the table that
used to be somebody’s son or daughter and that’s all I could see."
At that same time, Levatino and his wife were struggling with
fertility problems and were considering adoption. They knew however, how
difficult it was to adopt a newborn.
“It was the first time that I had any doubts about what I was doing
because I knew very well that part of the reason why it’s difficult to
find children to adopt were that doctors like me were killing them in
abortions,” said Levatino.
Finally, in 1978, the couple adopted their daughter, Heather. Right
after the adoption, they discovered they were expecting a baby, and
their son was born just 10 months later.
Levatino describes a “perfectly happy” life at this time and says
that despite those first qualms about abortion, he went right back to
work performing them. In
1981, after graduating from his residency, Levatino joined an OB/GYN
practice which also offered abortions as a service. Saline infusion was
the most common method for second trimester abortions at the time, but
it ran the risk of babies born alive. The procedures were also
expensive, difficult, and required the mother to go through
labor. Levatino and his partners trained themselves to perform
the D&E abortion procedure, which is used today.
In his speech, he describes what it’s like to perform the now routine procedure:
You take an instrument like this called a sopher clamp and you
basically – the surgery is that you literally tear a child to pieces.
The suction is only for the fluid. The rest of it is literally
dismembering a child piece by piece with an abortion instrument […]
absolutely gut-wrenching procedure.
Over the next four years, Levatino would perform 1,200 abortions, over 100 of them D&E, second trimester abortions.
But then everything changed. On a beautiful day in June of 1984, the
family was at home enjoying time with friends when Levatino heard tires
squeal. The children were in the street and Heather had been hit by a
car.
“She was a mess,” he explained. “And we did everything we possibly
could. But she ultimately died, literally in our arms, on the way to the
hospital that evening.”
After a while, Levatino had to return to work. And one day, his first
D&E since the accident was on his schedule. He wasn’t really
thinking about it or concerned. To him, it was going to be a routine
procedure he had done many times before. Only it wasn’t.
“I started that abortion and I took that sopher clamp and I literally
ripped out an arm or a leg and I just stared at it in the clamp. And I
got sick,” he explained. “But you know something, when you start an
abortion you can’t stop. If you don’t get all the pieces – and you
literally stack them up on the side of the table […] your patient is
going to come back infected, bleeding or dead. So I soldiered on and I
finished that abortion.”
But by the time the abortion was complete, Levatino was beginning to feel a change of heart:
For the first time in my life, after all those years, all those
abortions, I really looked, I mean I really looked at that pile of goo
on the side of the table that used to be somebody’s son or daughter and
that’s all I could see. I couldn’t see what a great doctor I was being. I
didn’t see how I helped this woman in her crisis. I didn’t see the 600
dollars cash I had just made in 15 minutes. All I could see was
somebody’s son or daughter. And after losing my daughter this was
looking very, very different to me.
Levatino stopped performing second trimester abortions but continued
to provide first trimester abortions for the next few months.
“Everybody puts doctors on a pedestal and we’re all supposed to be so smart but we’re no different than anybody else,” he said.
He realized that killing a baby at 20 weeks gestation was exactly the
same as killing one at nine weeks gestation or even two weeks
gestation. He understood that it doesn’t matter how big or small the
baby is, it’s a human life. He has not done an abortion since February
1985 and says there is no chance he will ever perform one again.
Adamant that he would never join the pro-life movement because of the
media’s portrayal of pro-lifers as crazy, he was eventually invited to a
pro-life potluck dinner where he met people who he realized were
intelligent volunteers who spent their time defending preborn humans.
After that, Levatino began speaking out against abortion specifically
with young people, graphically describing for them what an abortion
really is.
Levatino has also testified before Congress, asking our government to end legal abortion. Reprinted with permission from Live Action News.
October 12, 2015 (LiveActionNews)
-- The House Judiciary Committee held a hearing Thursday examining the
abortion procedures and medical ethics at Planned Parenthood, the
nation’s largest abortion chain.
The hearing featured testimonies from former abortionist Dr. Anthony
Levatino, former Planned Parenthood manager, Sue Thayer, and Luana
Stoltenberg, who suffers from trauma and infertility as a result of her
abortion at Planned Parenthood.
During the hearing, Dr. Levatino shared grisly details about second
trimester D&E abortion procedures, which he described as a “blind
procedure.”
“With a D&E abortion — dismemberment abortion, if you wish — there is no chance of a live birth at all,” Levatino said.
Levatino describes how the abortionist reaches inside the mother’s
womb with a clamp and pulls out parts of the child with force. D&E
abortion procedures violently tear a preborn child apart limb from
torso, and the child bleeds to death in utero.
“Reach in again, pull again,” he described, “and pull out an arm…Sometimes a little face comes out and stares at you.”
Levatino stated powerfully: “Congratulations! You just performed a D&E abortion. You just affirmed your right to choose.”
Levatino, who committed over 1,200 abortions, showed attendees a
video by Live Action, documenting the horror that is America’s abortion
industry. The video reveals grisly details about the inhuman late-term
abortion practices and procedures by abortionists and staffers.
A complete description of a D&E abortion procedure by Dr. Levatino can be found here, and is as follows:
Imagine for a moment that you are a “pro-choice”
obstetrician-gynecologist as I once was. Your patient today is seventeen
years old and she is twenty weeks pregnant. At twenty weeks, her uterus
is up to her umbilicus and she has been feeling her baby kick for the
last two weeks. If you could see her baby, she would be as long as your
hand from the top of her head to the bottom of her rump not counting the
legs. Your patient is now asleep on an operating room table with her
legs in stirrups. Upon entering the room after scrubbing, you dry your
hands with a sterile towel and are gowned and gloved by the scrub nurse.
The first task is remove the laminaria that had earlier been placed
in the cervix to dilate it sufficiently to allow the procedure you are
about to perform. With that accomplished, direct your attention to the
surgical instruments arranged on a small table to your right. The first
instrument you reach for is a 14-French suction catheter. It is clear
plastic and about nine inches long. It has a bore through the center
approximately ¾ of an inch in diameter. Picture yourself introducing the
catheter through the cervix and instructing the circulating nurse to
turn on the suction machine which is connected through clear plastic
tubing to the catheter. What you will see is a pale yellow fluid the
looks a lot like urine coming through the catheter into a glass bottle
on the suction machine. This amniotic fluid surrounded the baby to
protect her.
With suction complete, look for your Sopher clamp. This instrument is
about thirteen inches long and made of stainless steel. At one end are
located jaws about 2 ½ inches long and about ¾ on an inch wide with rows
of sharp ridges or teeth. This instrument is for grasping and crushing
tissue. When it gets hold of something, it does not let go.
A second trimester D&E abortion is a blind procedure. The baby
can be in any orientation or position inside the uterus. Picture
yourself reaching in with the Sopher clamp and grasping anything you
can. At twenty weeks gestation, the uterus is thin and soft so be
careful not to perforate or puncture the walls. Once you have grasped
something inside, squeeze on the clamp to set the jaws and pull hard –
really hard. You feel something let go and out pops a fully formed leg
about 4 to 5 inches long. Reach in again and grasp whatever you can. Set
the jaw and pull really hard once again and out pops an arm about the
same length. Reach in again and again with that clamp and tear out the
spine, intestines, heart and lungs.
The toughest part of a D&E abortion is extracting the baby’s
head. The head of a baby that age is about the size of a plum and is now
free floating inside the uterine cavity. You can be pretty sure you
have hold of it if the Sopher clamp is spread about as far as your
fingers will allow. You will know you have it right when you crush down
on the clamp and see a pure white gelatinous material issue from the
cervix. That was the baby’s brains. You can then extract the skull
pieces. If you have a really bad day like I often did, a little face may
come out and stare back at you.
Congratulations! You have just successfully performed a Suction
D&E abortion. You just affirmed her right to choose. You just made
$600 cash in fifteen minutes.
The hearing comes in response to undercover videos that show Planned
Parenthood profiteering from the sale of baby parts. Ten videos from The
Center for Medical Progress expose top-level Planned Parenthood
executives discussing their role in the trafficking of fetal body parts,
manipulating the abortion procedure in order to obtain intact organs,
and performing what appear to be illegal partial-birth abortion
procedures.
The hearing called into question
the abortion practices that are ubiquitous across the industry. In the
wake of the undercover videos, multiple investigations into the abortion
giant were launched at the federal and state levels. Five states have
moved to defund Planned Parenthood, and the abortion business’ over $500
million in annual taxpayer funding has been examined with intense
scrutiny.
Lawmakers have called for a redirection of taxpayer funding from the
group in light of lawbreaking and scandal, noting that women would be
better served if its public funding is placed into health clinics that
provide comprehensive services for women and their families. Reprinted with permission from Live Action News.
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Whoopi slams Kelsey Grammer’s pro-life t-shirt: men can’t talk about abortion
Oct. 12, 2015 (Newsbusters) - Despite its many panelists, ABC’s The View has always pushed one view, and it certainly has never been conservative or pro-life.
So imagine how the ladies at the liberal talk show reacted when actor Kelsey Grammer posted a
photo of himself wearing a pro-life shirt to his Instagram account last
week. The ensuing confusion over a Hollywood elite having a different view than their own left the panel dumbfounded Monday.
The t-shirt Grammer wore was designed by pro-life advocacy group Abort73, and compared abortion violence to gun violence by asking, “Would it bother us more if we used guns?”
The shirt prompted a discussion on The View where the crew slammed the male actor for getting between a “choice between [a woman] and her God.”
Whoopi Goldberg introduced the segment by highlighting that Grammer
was “causing a lot of controversy” by wearing an “anti-abortion shirt.”
“Should abortion be equated with gun violence?” she asked. “I'm not sure I understood the quote.”
While co-host Michelle Collins quipped that Abort 73 sounded “like a
sci-fi movie,” co-host Paula Faris offered an explanation of Grammer’s
shirt.
“They're saying when children are affected by gun violence -- that
gets our attention -- but when children are aborted it doesn't seem like
we care,” she explained. “Because they will say that 3,000 children are
killed each year by gun violence but over 700,000 children are killed
via abortions.”
While the numbers on gun violence and abortion vary depending on the source, Whoopi dismissed Paula’s fatality-count comparison entirely.
“To some people,” Whoopi responded. “That’s some people’s opinions.”
Whoopi continued to rant in favor of “choice” – accompanied by applause.
“But if you're a woman who has found that she needs to go get an abortion, isn't that her choice between her and her God?”
she asked. “If you go into a school and you shoot up 5 and 6
and 7-year-olds, children who have lived with you, grown with you, that
you have put all your love and attention into, you know, I think there's
a big difference.”
Yes, because lack of “love and attention” make an unborn baby’s death A-OK.
Besides that, Grammer is a male, which disqualifies him from speaking out on abortion, according to Whoopi.
“I think most of these folks who make those kind of comparisons,” she pressed, “I need you to be more [sic] women so we can have this conversation because you guys will never have to make this decision. Ever.”
If that wasn’t enough, Michelle took issue next with Grammer’s smile in the picture.
“Can you imagine if Frasier had worn this shirt?” she asked about Grammer’s TV character. “Ruins the show, first of all.”
Whoopi concluded by revealing the unsurprising crew’s view on guns and abortion: “You can’t equate the two.” Reprinted with permission from Newsbusters.
October 12, 2015 (LiveActionNews) -- Diane Derzis, owner of the only abortion clinic in Mississippi, was on “The Alan Colmes Show” defending
abortion and complaining about laws requiring abortionists to have
admitting privileges. She says many interesting things in the video,
some of which I’ll address in future articles.
As you can see in this video of
Colmes’ radio show, he is a very sympathetic interviewer. He lobs
Derzis softball question after softball question, setting her up to
spout the typical pro-abortion rhetoric. For example, Colmes makes sure
to maneuver Derzis into saying that regulations requiring clinics to
meet basic health standards and hire abortionists with admitting
privileges have nothing to do with women’s health – it’s just those
nasty, evil anti-choicers trying to take women’s rights away. And, of
course, he makes sure to bring up the horrors of self-induced and
illegal back alley abortions that were allegedly rampant before Roe v.
Wade (even though much of that has been debunked and, in fact, the former medical director of Planned Parenthood wrote in 1960 that
the 90% of all illegal abortions were performed by “licensed
physicians… in good standing” and that “abortion, whether therapeutic or
illegal, is in the main no longer dangerous”).
Yet despite the fact that Colmes handles Derzis with kid gloves,
there is one major surprise in the interview. Things get strange when
the subject turns to Planned Parenthood.
Colmes: Are there Planned Parenthood facilities where you are? Do
they exist in Mississippi? What is their relationship to clinics like
yours?”
Derzis: The Planned Parenthood in Mississippi does not do abortions. They do – we actually do not have a relationship.…
This prompts Colmes to launch into the typical defense of Planned Parenthood that we’ve all heard so many times:
Colmes: I see. So most of what Planned Parenthood does is not
abortion, with Republicans, this is a cause célèbre, they want to defund
it, when in fact, the Planned Parenthood in Mississippi doesn’t go
anywhere near what you do.
Then Derzis says is something that shocks Colmes and probably all of the program’s pro-choice listeners as well.
Derzis: I agree that Planned Parenthood should be defunded.
Absolutely. They actually do more abortions than anyone in the country,
even though they talk about doing only 3%, that’s not quite accurate –
they do more than anyone in the country. And they are the Wal-Mart of
abortion. I’m not a Planned Parenthood defender here.
Colmes: I guess I’m surprised to hear that.
Derzis: I know it, because everyone else goes along with the, what we’re supposed to say, and the PC thing, and I’m just-
Colmes: All right.
Derzis: Not like that.
So here we have an admission that Planned Parenthood is mostly about
abortion – something that pro-lifers have been saying all along. We
already know statistically that they do the majority of abortions in the US (around 40%),
now we have it straight from the mouth of another abortion provider.
Planned Parenthood, according to Derzis, is all about abortion.
Derzis is not the only abortion provider to compare abortion to Walmart.
In her 2007 book Safe, Legal and Unavailable? Abortion Politics in the United States Pro-choice author Melody Rose writes:
For example, Peter Bours, a physician in Oregon, reports that new
Planned Parenthood franchises in his area are making one of his offices
financially untenable; whereas he has once provided 100 or more
abortions per month in his Portland office, he now performs around 20.
Referring to Planned Parenthood as “the Wal-Mart of abortion clinics,”
Bours contends that the larger providers offer inferior services, and
that as a result women are being poorly served by the expansion of the
organization in abortion provision.
Although very competitive in terms of price, Bours maintains that
their level of care is lower, and that patients often see clinicians
with less training than physicians at smaller facilities might have.
One gets an idea of mass-produced products; substandard abortion
procedures and clinics which process woman after woman, giving them
abortions and sending them on the way.
Faltering, Colmes tries to get the interview back on familiar ground, attempting again to defend Planned Parenthood.
Colmes: But as I understand it, because of the Hyde Amendment, they
can’t, federal dollars don’t go to Planned Parenthood for abortions.
Derzis: Well it’s… That is exactly what they say, but it, I will tell
you now, that Planned Parenthood has done remarkably well through this
fiasco, even though they drug the rest of us through the mud … They had
done remarkably well.
Colmes: But what I don’t understand is, in many communities, Planned
Parenthood is the only place women have to go, why would you want money
taken away from them since many women –
Derzis: Alan, they make tons of money. That’s what I’m telling you
here. They make so much money – check out what the CEO makes a year, and
I’ll tell you that it’s right under $500,000. [In fact, CEO Cecile
Richards makes over $500,000. Her income in 2012 was $523,616.]
In just a few minutes, Derzis has blown a hole through all of the
propaganda surrounding Planned Parenthood. Her candor shows that:
1. Planned Parenthood is all about abortion.
2. The 3% statistic is misleading, and
3. Planned Parenthood doesn’t need public funding.
Pro-lifers knew this all along, of course. But it’s nice to see the facts verified by an unexpected source.
And, just in case there are any doubts about Derzis’
pro-abortion credentials (doubts which would seem impossible to have
after seeing the video) she says:
I thank God every day I had an abortion. I am not ashamed of that. I have no problem talking about it.
October 12, 2015 (LiveActionNews) -- Innovative scientists at the Institut Marques in Barcelona, Spain, have made an amazing discovery. Preborn babies can hear and respond to music much sooner than previously believed.
“For the first time ever,” it can be scientifically proven that a
preborn baby detects and responds to sound at 16 weeks gestation.
The Institut Marques reports (emphasis mine):
“Ultrasound”, the journal of the British Medical Ultrasound Society
(BMUS), has published our study entitled “Fetal Facial Expression in
Response to Intravaginally Transmitted Music”, an innovative research
project on fetal hearing.
This report explains that, beginning in week 16 of pregnancy, a
response exists to music delivered intravaginally, expressed through
specific movements of the mouth and tongue.
Our initial hypothesis suggests that music creates a response which
manifests as vocalisation movements, as it activates the brain circuits
that stimulate language and communication. In other words, learning
begins in utero.
The Daily Mail reports: “ntil now experts did not believe a foetus could hear until week 18, at the earliest but more commonly nearer 26 weeks.”
This scientific discovery is just one more in a long line, proving
the absolute humanity, beauty, and value of preborn babies. As science
develops, we gain windows to the womb that show us the valuable person
we lose every time an abortion is committed.
Abortion does not take a potential life: it take the real, actual,
life of a human being. And in many cases, this little human can already
sing.
This video shows an amazingly formed preborn baby at 18 weeks – just
two weeks after the ability to respond to music can be scientifically
proven.
For more information on preborn babies at every age, check out the
stunning photos, videos, and detailed information provided by The Endowment for Human Development,
a scientific nonprofit dedicated “to help everyone appreciate, apply,
and communicate the science of health and human development. Reprinted with permission from Live Action News.
