Jan. 23, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) - Actor
Kelsey Grammer, best known as the title character on the long-running
sitcom Frasier, wasn't always pro-life. But at some point in the past
six years, he had a conversion on the issue.
Particularly in the past few months he has become even more visible
in his stance defending the right to life of the unborn. Last October he posted a photo of himself on Instagram sporting a pro-life t-shirt created by the group Abort73.
Kelsey Grammer and his wife Katye at the March for Life in Washington D.C. on Friday. Kelsey and Katye Grammer Instagram"Would it bother you more if they used guns?" reads the t-shirt.
Then, just this week, he and his wife Katye were spotted braving wintry weather to attend the March for Life in Washington D.C.
The
famous couple posted a photo of themselves at the march to their
Instagram account. Another photo taken by a fan has been circulating
around Twitter.
Grammer has publicly campaigned for Republican presidential hopeful
Rudy Giuliani and candidate John McCain, and has made no bones about
being for small government. His messy personal life hasn’t dimmed his
enthusiasm for religion or espousal of neo-conservative values.
Though as late as 2010 he was describing himself as pro-choice, in
July he attended the National Right to Life convention in New Orleans
where he listened to several Republican presidential hopefuls and was
photographed with one of them, Ben Carson.
HOUSTON, January 29, 2016 (LifeSiteNews)
- A pro-life organization has released documents that may show Planned
Parenthood illegally profited from the sale of aborted babies' body
parts, furthering a Texas state investigation and possibly triggering a
new grand jury in Harris County.
The new receipts show that Planned Parethood charges for each body part obtained, as pro-life advocates had maintained all along.
Operation Rescue attorney Briscoe Cain held a press conference in
front of the Planned Parenthood abortion facility in Houston, which is
run by Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast (PPGC). After undercover
investigators filmed PPGC officials discussing how such profit could be
hidden in "line items," it touched off a series of investigations at the
national, state, and local level.
One of those was in Harris County, where the grand jury on Monday took no action against Planned Parenthood but indicted David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt, the CMP investigators who shot the footage. They face up to 20 years in prison for using a fake ID.
New invoices show PPGC partnering with the University of Texas
Medical Branch at Galveston to furnish aborted babies' tissue for
medical research and experimentation.
An e-mail from September 7, 2011, shows a UTMB official telling
Melissa Farrell (who personally signs some of her e-mails "Missy"), "We
are needing to collect tissues as soon as possible."
Farrell, the director of research at PPGC, sent UTMB two invoices:
one for $5,750 covering February-August 2010, and another for $2,374.98
for January-June 2011.
Each has a flat-fee charge - listed alternately as "reimbursement for study supplies" or "annual admin fee."
Both also contain a line charging $150 for each "consent" obtained -
something lawyers say proves that PPGC charged a fee per specimen.
That designation is how Farrell was able to hide its profit in "line items," as she told CMP investigators on film.
"Farrell admitted on camera to undercover investigators that PPGC
'worded' the per-specimen charges for fetal specimens as 'per consent'
in order to 'frame' the project budget in a way that will look legal 'on
paper,'" David Daleiden said. "Whether the 'consent fee' for fetal
tissue is $25" - the amount Farrell mentioned on film - "or $150, it is
completely outside the letter and spirit of Texas Penal Code 48.02."
There is also an aspect of public funding for Planned Parenthood in the UTMB study.
“Because Planned Parenthood was selling to publicly funded
universities, this means that our tax dollars went to buy aborted baby
remains and ended up in the pockets of Planned Parenthood executives,”
said Operation Rescue Senior Vice President Cheryl Sullenger. Yet, she
said, Harris County District Attorney Devon Anderson "turned a blind eye
to this crime while charging the people that reported the crimes. This
injustice must not be allowed to stand.”
“Because of this new evidence, we renew our call for a new grand jury
to investigate Planned Parenthood to be directed by an independent
special prosecutor not related in any way to Devon Anderson, anyone in
the Harris County District Attorney’s office, or Anderson’s friend, Chip
Lewis," the attorney for Houston abortionist Douglas Karpen and a
longtime Anderson ally, she said.
They also hope to bolster the ongoing Texas state investigation into PPGC, which paid $4.3 million to settle allegations of Medicaid fraud in 2013.
“The purpose of releasing these documents is to shed light on
previously unseen evidence of criminal activity by Planned Parenthood
Gulf Coast and to publicly release for the first time financial
documents exposing the practice of purchasing aborted fetal tissue by
Texas medical schools,” Cain said on Thursday, according to Breitbart.
Cain said he expected the documents to be "key evidence used by the
State of Texas as they continue their investigation of Planned
Parenthood’s activities.”
"Governor Abbott and Attorney General Paxton must hold Planned
Parenthood Gulf Coast accountable for their flagrant violation of the
Texas Penal Code and their abuse of Texas taxpayers’ dollars," Daleiden
said.
