(Our two ding dong senators from R.I. voted to continue funding of this satanic holocaust of babies in the womb.Sen.Reed and Sen.Sheldon Inhouse voted to continue this nauseating, unbelievable,shameful,national
holocaust of defenseless baby human beings in the womb.Had it passed,communist Obama would have vetoed it!!!!!
It goes back to Roe v Wade,where five judges of our highest court did not know ,or said they did not know,when human life begins. Biology 101 explains it well--it's when the male sperm fertilizes the female egg and the new baby human being has its own unique, personal DNA. It's simple science stupid,you asinine judges and politicians!!!!!!!!! Why should God bless America when this Nazi crap is condoned and financed by the American people??????????
WASHINGTON, D.C., August 3, 2015 (LifeSiteNews)
– Although a majority of Senators voted yes, a minority of Democrats –
joined by one Republican – managed to block an effort to defund Planned
Parenthood this evening.
The final, 53-46 vote on the bill from Iowa Republican Joni Ernst fell largely along party lines.
Because Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell restored the use of
the filibuster, stand-alone bills such as this one must have at least 60
votes to pass cloture.
Had the bill passed, President Obama promised through spokesman Josh
Earnest to veto the bill. Overriding a veto requires 66 votes, a
threshold no Hill watcher could envision.
Since the Senate will break for summer recess at the end of the week,
some in the pro-life community are calling for immediate action.
“Now that we have everyone on record, the Senate GOP must attach this
bill to a must-pass piece of legislation and get this bill to the
president’s desk,” said Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life of America (SFLA).
Other pro-life advocates, while disappointed by the outcome, say that
the vote shows the growing strength of their movement. “When the Senate
last voted to defund Planned Parenthood” in 2011, “only 42 voted for
it,” Marjorie Dannenfelser, the president of the Susan B. Anthony List, said following the vote.
Ultimately, one Republican – Sen. Mark Kirk of Illinois – voted to
maintain funding for the abortion provider, despite a string of shocking
and progressively more disturbing videos revealing Planned Parenthood's
role in harvesting and selling the body parts of aborted babies.
Meanwhile, two pro-life Democrats – Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Joe Donnelly of Indiana – gave the legislation a bipartisan coalition. Donnelly's vote was a closely held secret until it was cast, and came after aggressive lobbying by Indiana Right to Life.
“Hoosiers have long been concerned about their tax dollars going to an
organization that dismembers hundreds of thousands of American children
each year,” said the group's president and CEO, Mike Fichter. “We extend
our thanks to both of our senators, and especially to Sen. Coats who
was an original cosponsor on this legislation.”
Another senator who prominently campaigned as a pro-life Democrat,
Bob Casey of Pennsylvania – the son of the former pro-life Governor
Robert P. Casey – voted no.
Several Republicans who had not publicly stated their position before
the roll call ultimately voted against continuing to fund Planned
Parenthood, including Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of
Alaska.
Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards cast the vote as the
latest partisan assault in the war on women. “This is all about
politics,” she told MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell today. “I think it's really
important to understand that all of this is about denying women access
to health care in this country and the vote tonight will actually be
about denying women access to birth control, cancer screenings, testing
and treatment for many women where Planned Parenthood is their only
doctor.”
But members of both parties have said that federal funding of women's
health care should be redirected from the nation's largest abortion
provider to community health centers, which outnumber Planned Parenthood
facilities 13-to-one. “Supporters of Planned Parenthood have expressed
concern that women will not have access to medical care. We share that
concern which is why we are calling on Congress to reallocate the funding to Community Health Centers,” said Kristen Day, executive director of Democrats for Life of America (DFLA).
“There are 9,000 Community Health Center sites located in almost every
single Congressional District. They vastly outnumber the 700 Planned
Parenthood facilities and provide fuller services for families. We want
to ensure that women still have access to the services and support they
need.”
Sen. Manchin echoed this in a statement released shortly before
today's vote. “I do not believe that taxpayer money should be used to
fund” Planned Parenthood, he said. “Instead those funds should be sent
to other health care providers, including community health centers,
which provide important women’s healthcare services. While my vote is
one that will prevent taxpayers dollars from going to Planned
Parenthood, I will remain committed to ensuring that all women in West
Virginia and America receive the health care services they need.”
Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Center,
agreed that “ending taxpayer funding to Planned Parenthood will free up
over half-a-billion dollars a year to go to a myriad of health-care
service providers that provide a broader range of health services than
Planned Parenthood ever has.”
"While Americans are divided over abortion, we see common ground
quickly forming to ensure Americans aren't forced to send their tax
dollars to an abortion giant that sifts through aborted babies' parts to
see which organs can be salvaged and sold,“ Perkins added. “Trafficking
baby body parts is only the latest scandal for an organization that
also faces allegations of covering up sex trafficking, engaging in sex
selection abortion, and even violating the law criminalizing
partial-birth abortion.”
Planned Parenthood receives in excess of half-a-billion dollars each
year, more than 40 percent of its operating budget, from taxpayer
revenues at the federal, state, and local level.
The Senate is unlikely to take additional action in the waning days
of this session. Some instead are already focusing on next autumn's
presidential election.
“With Hillary Clinton and other national Democratic leaders doubling
down on their support for unlimited abortion on-demand, up until the
moment of birth, paid for by taxpayers, voters and pundits should expect
to see the abortion issue play a major role in the upcoming general
election,” Dannenfelser said. She added that the pro-life movement “will
work hard to ensure voters do not forget who fails to stand for the
most innocent among us.”
Dannenfelser added that the remaining eight to 10 videos that the
Center for Medical Progress says it is poised to release over the coming
weeks will go a long way toward changing public opinion against the
abortion industry. “As more videos are made public, outrage will surely
grow
(This is America's Holocaust and YOU are supporting this with YOUR TAX MONEY!!!!
DEFUND and SHUT DOWN PLANNED PARENTHOOD!!!!!
And make our four nincompoops in the US CONGRESS stop this IGNOMINIOUS DISGUSTING HOLOCAUST here in the USA. BLLefoley.)
I’m about to show you something that,
if you're alive and have a heartbeat, will deeply disturb you, and then
make you hopping mad.
I warn you, it’s graphic. But everybody needs to see this. Because
this is the truth. And even if the truth is difficult, and gruesome, and
challenging, it must be known.
This morning the Center for Medical Progress released the latest in their series
of undercover sting videos exposing the fact that Planned Parenthood is
harvesting and selling the body parts of aborted babies.
The first part
is plenty disturbing, as director of research for Planned Parenthood
Gulf Coast, Melissa Farrell, discusses how she “diversifies” Planned
Parenthood's “revenue stream” by selling aborted baby parts, and how
their abortionists can modify the abortion procedure (Note: totally
illegal) to obtain “intact” fetuses.
But then the camera moves into the lab, where workers are actually
involved in dissecting and dismembering aborted babies to get the useful
body parts.
Describing their “last case” of the day, one of the workers tells an
actor posing as someone interested in purchasing fetal body parts, that “it was a twin” at about 20 weeks gestation.
The camera then pans over to a dish, filled with what Planned
Parenthood describes as “tissue.” One of the workers uses tweezers to
pick up the intestines, and boasts about how sometimes “the organs come
out really, really well.” And that’s when I saw it. A little, beautiful,
perfectly formed hand, gently clenched in a fist – a hand attached to an
arm that had been torn from its owner's body, and thrown in a dish
swimming with body parts.
...And then I saw the foot. And the other foot.
I
wish I could say I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. But I could,
because I know what Planned Parenthood does. But there’s a difference
between believing, and seeing.
And that’s why these photos must be shared as far and wide as possible. After that, it gets even worse, as the man behind the camera uses his
tweezers to pick up and inspect an arm and hand...and then the
leg...and then another leg. Yes, it is horrifying that Planned Parenthood is apparently lying
about the fact that it makes a tidy profit off trafficking in the body
parts of aborted babies. But the worst thing of all is that Planned Parenthood has body parts
to sell in the first place. That Planned Parenthood is daily,
constantly, aborting babies that have hands, and feet, and hearts, and
lungs. The worst part is that every time Planned Parenthood sells a body
part, it is because they have killed a baby, a human being like you and
me – a human being that had the right to live, and love, and be, a baby whose life was summarily snuffed out, and turned into a “revenue stream.” The worst part is that year after year, decade after decade, we let
Planned Parenthood get away with the canard that they are only aborting
"blobs of tissue," or "products of pregnancy" - as if we don't all know
perfectly well what the product of a pregnancy is: a baby. I say, enough is enough. Shut Planned Parenthood down, now! Follow John Jalsevac on Facebook
IRVING, Texas, July 30, 2015 (LifeSiteNews)
– The Boy Scouts of America took the final step Monday in lifting its
ban on Scout leaders who openly profess homosexuality – but many gay
activists decried the change for not going far enough.
The BSA executive committee passed a resolution to lift the ban two weeks ago. On Monday, July 27, the National Executive Board ratified the decision, with 79% of the board's 80 members agreeing.
The shift in policy incurred lukewarm approval from homosexual
activists, with many expressing disapproval of the policy’s religious
exemption clause. Gary Signorile, the editor-at-large for the Huffington Post's "Gay Voices" site, blasted
the BSA's provision allowing individual chapters to cleave to their
consciences on the matter of same-sex-attracted Scout leaders.
"By allowing the religious-affiliated troops to still ban gay
adults," Signorile wrote, "the BSA is making a religious exemption seem
like a reasonable compromise when in fact it is allowing the very people
who would discriminate to keep discriminating."
Signorile echoed the sentiments of liberal groups who hope to curtail
the freedom of religious expression for Catholics, Mormons, and others
in the United States who define marriage as between one man and one
woman.
The American Civil Liberties Union, for example, declared recently
that it would no longer defend Religious Freedom Restoration Acts
(RFRAs) federally or among the states. ACLU deputy legal director
Louise Melling wrote
in June, "The RFRA wasn’t meant to force employees to pay a price for
their employer’s faith, or to allow businesses to refuse to serve gay
and transgender people, or to sanction government-funded
discrimination."
Chad Griffin, president of the Human Rights Campaign, complained
that "including an exemption for troops sponsored by religious
organizations undermines and diminishes the historic nature of today's
decision. Discrimination should have no place in the Boy Scouts,
period."
Scouts for Equality, a homosexual activist group formed in 2012, called
the decision the "beginning of a new chapter," an example of "going
forward, not back." A press release from the group piled on against
people who oppose homosexuality on religious grounds: "In effect, Boy
Scout units sponsored by churches will have the right to continue
discriminating against gay adults on a troop-by-troop basis."
The BSA voted in 2013 to end its ban on youth members acting on their same-sex attractions, shortly after a committee within the organization unanimously found
that the ban was "absolutely the best policy." In 2014, BSA president
Robert Gates, who served as secretary of defense under President Obama
until 2011, declared that he would have allowed openly homosexual Scout leaders as well at that time.
These decisions have come in the wake of intense corporate and
political pressure, including from Disney and President Barack Obama.
The National Catholic Committee on Scouting offered a guarded response
to the July 27 resolution, noting, "it appears that the resolution
respects the needs of Catholic-chartered organizations in the right to
choose leaders whose character and conduct are consistent with those of
Catholic teaching."
However, "we express strong concern about the practical implications
of this resolution, especially for our young people in Scouting, and
whether the term 'sexual orientation' will be correctly understood and
applied only in reference to sexual inclination and not to sexual
conduct or behavior."
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons), which
sponsored 17 percent of Scouting youths as of 2013, has announced that it may cut ties
with the BSA. "The Church has always welcomed all boys to its Scouting
units regardless of sexual orientation," an official statement reads.
"However, the admission of openly gay leaders is inconsistent with the
doctrines of the Church and what have traditionally been the values of
the Boy Scouts of America."
In 2012, Portland, Oregon attorney Kelly Clark publicly released thousands of pages
of BSA documents detailing over a thousand molestation cases within the
organization. The sexual assault records cover the time period from
1965 to 1985 and were used in a lawsuit Clark successfully filed against
the BSA.
Sex scandals plagued the organization in the 1990s as well, leading to BSA policies mandating that two adults always be present with Scouts and forbidding leaders to touch Scouts.
In a statement, BSA president Gates justified the decision on monetary grounds. "Any effort" to maintain the ban, which the U.S. Supreme Court upheld in 2000, "was inevitably going to result in simultaneous legal battles in multiple jurisdictions and at staggering cost."
"For far too long this issue has divided and distracted us," Gates
concluded. "Now it's time to unite behind our shared belief in the
extraordinary power of Scouting to be a force for good in a community
and in the lives of its youth members."
Urgent: Sign the petition demanding that Congress investigate and defund Planned Parenthood here.
July 30, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) – Workers in a lab are seen sorting through body parts on a dish: a heart, stomach, kidney, and legs.
And then a medical assistant suddenly announces: "It's another boy!"
This is just a little of the macabre and heart-wrenching footage in
the newest undercover video showing alleged harvesting and sale of body
parts from aborted babies by Planned Parenthood, released Thursday
morning.
The newest video also shows a Planned Parenthood medical director
negotiating a fetal body parts deal while agreeing to prices for
harvested parts, and suggesting ways to avoid legal consequences.
"For anyone with a conscience, the video's entire fetal organ scene
is wrenching -- to the gut as well as the heart. It hearkens us back to
the days of Joseph Mengele or Kermit Gosnell, who both coldly killed and
dissected children without remorse," said Operation Rescue President
Troy Newman, in a press release.
The video takes the viewer into Planned Parenthood of the Rocky
Mountains, where Vice President and Medical Director Dr. Savita Ginde
discusses with actors posing as representatives from a human biologics
company a potential partnership to harvest fetal organs.
When one of the actors posing as a buyer asks the doctor if
“compensation could be specific to the specimen?” Ginde agrees. As the
camera travels to the abortion clinic’s pathological laboratory to
reveal the aftermath of a real abortion of a baby boy, Ginde tells the
buyer that the abortion clinic would rather receive payment per body
part harvested, rather than a standard flat fee for the entire case.
“I think a per-item thing works a little better, just because we can
see how much we can get out of it,” she is heard saying on the video.
Planned Parenthood hit national headlines last month after undercover
videos released by the pro-life group Center for Medical Progress (CMP)
showed top officials from the nation’s largest abortion provider
discussing the sale of body parts harvested from babies aborted at their
facilities. Those behind the undercover videos say that selling the
body parts for profit is a violation of federal law.
Yesterday, the California Superior Court issued a narrow temporary restraining order
preventing CMP from releasing further undercover video footage
involving top-level staff of StemExpress, the company that purchases the
body parts from Planned Parenthood.
Project Lead David Daleiden is using the fourth video to call for an immediate ending to Planned Parenthood’s funding.
“Elected officials need to listen to the public outcry for an
immediate moratorium on Planned Parenthood’s taxpayer funding while the
10 state investigations and 3 Congressional committees determine the
full extent of Planned Parenthood’s sale of baby parts.”
“Planned Parenthood’s recent call for the NIH to convene an expert
panel to ‘study’ fetal experimentation is absurd after suggestions from
Planned Parenthood’s Dr. Ginde that ‘research’ can be used as a
catch-all to cover-up baby parts sales. The biggest problem is bad
actors like Planned Parenthood who hold themselves above the law in
order to harvest and make money off of aborted fetal brains, hearts, and
livers,” he said.
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NEW YORK, July 30, 2015 (LifeSiteNews)
- Until the eve of his presidential campaign, Jeb Bush was director of a
philanthropy that gave tens of millions of dollars to Planned
Parenthood and financed its advocacy of "unrestricted access
to abortion" around the world. The charity also approved money to global
abortion providers while he sat on its board.
In 2010, Jeb was named one
of the founding directors of the Bloomberg Family
Foundation, established as a tax-exempt foundation to advance the
vision of former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. He resigned from
the board at the end of 2014 to prepare his presidential campaign.
While a Bush spokesman has responded to concerns by saying that Bush
would not have voted on every initiative of the foundation, a pro-life
leader told LifeSiteNews it "stretches credibility" that Bush was
unaware of the foundation's pro-abortion work, given the centrality of
such work to the foundation's mission, and its scope.
LifeSiteNews reached out to Bush for comment, but did not hear back by press time. $50 million to 'reproductive health' and Planned Parenthood
In March of 2014, the Bloomberg Philanthropies announced a $50 million undertaking to expand "reproductive health," including lobbying foreign nations to loosen restrictions on abortion.
Bloomberg announced a major partnership with Planned
Parenthood-Global to train and equip abortion activists in pro-life
countries.
"In 2014, we started supporting local nonprofit organizations in
Burkina Faso, Senegal, Uganda, and Nicaragua to advocate for better
policies in their countries that will expand access to comprehensive
reproductive health services," the foundation stated.
"These organizations will receive technical assistance from Planned
Parenthood Federation of America – Global Division to help augment their
capacity for effective advocacy."
Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards greeted the news by
saying that "governments need to play a stronger role to ensure that all
women have access to the health care they need" - including abortion -
"no matter who they are, no matter where they live.”
Bloomberg clarified how the partnership would work while receiving Planned Parenthood's Global Citizen Award at its annual gala last March 27.
"We'll Push for Less Restrictive Abortion Laws"
"I am happy to say our major partner in this project will be Planned
Parenthood - Global," Bloomberg said. "In some countries, our funding
will help advocates work towards better sexual health policies for teens
and better access to contraceptives. In others, we'll help push for
less restrictive abortion laws and more government funding for
high-quality, accessible services."
Such advocacy was "necessary," he continued, because "there are
plenty of outside interest groups funding the other side of these
issues, and we cannot let them go unanswered."
"This is a fight to women control their own destinies," Bloomberg
said. "And let me tell you: We are in it to help them win it, and we're
gonna stay in it until they do."
"Together we can succeed," he concluded. "Thank you for this award. God bless."
As head of a foundation with $5.4 billion in assets, which awards more than $200 million a year, the three-term mayor of New York has put his money where his mouth is. Funding Global Abortion Providers One aspect
of his philanthropy's overall health initiative is to underwrite
"reproductive health services in the most remote areas of" Tanzania.
Although all grants say they are intended "to reduce maternal deaths,"
alongside the CDC and the World Lung Foundation, Bloomberg
Philanthropies has funded two abortion providers.
In 2013, Bloomberg Philanthropies approved a a grant of $1,818,000
for EngenderHealth, and another $250,000 for Marie Stopes International
- Tanzania.
"EngenderHealth works to ensure reproductive rights of Tanzanian
women and their families by integrating family planning with HIV and
comprehensive abortion care services," the group states on its website. EngenderHealth has been discovered promoting the use of manual vacuum aspiration (MVA), a common abortion method, as "post-abortion care" in Africa, including in Tanzania.
The group also touts the fact that its expansion to all 26 regions of
the country "has also contributed to an increase in uptake
of long-acting and reversible methods," especially Implanon. Long-Acting
Reversible Contraceptives (LARCs) work both by preventing conception
and by "alterations in the endometrium," which can cause an early abortion by preventing implantation.
Marie Stopes is known as a global abortion provider. MSI states that it only provides "post-abortion care" in Tanzania, where abortion is legal only to save the life of the mother.
But Marie Stopes officials have admitted that the group performs illegal abortions.
"We do illegal abortions all over the world," Paul Cornellison, the director of Marie Stopes International in South Africa, said during a Marie Stopes International conference in 2007 in London - remarks that were caught on film. "There's various options, you know, once we open a center there...if we can just get our foot in the door."
In other nations, Bloomberg has supported advocates of unlimited, universal abortion-on-demand. "Abortion services should be made free...for all women and girls"
Bloomberg Philanthropies underwrites political advocacy in African
and Central American nations whose laws reflect the pro-life outlook of
its citizens. The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF)
offers a glimpse into what international abortion lobbyists demand.
Between 2012 and 2014, IPPF wrote a 32-page case study on the Senegalese legal landscape, entitled Over-Protected and Under-Served. While
numerous participants told researchers that abortion is "easy" to
obtain and “lots of young people are having clandestine abortions,” IPPF
focused on promoting "safe" abortion -- while making clear that such
laws were only one components of its overall mission.
"Advocacy efforts should focus on realizing the ultimate goal of
unrestricted access to abortion services, and protection of this right
under the law. Abortion services should be made free, safe, accessible
and confidential for all women and girls," the report states.
The abortion industry signaled it rejects incremental aims to achieve
the eventual recognition of abortion as a human right. "Anything other
than full decriminalization will often lead to abortion remaining
inaccessible to all but a very small number of women," the report says.
The task of pressuring government officials will fall to local
activists in the nations targeted by Bloomberg because, in the words of
Kelly Henning, the head of the public health program at Bloomberg
Philanthropies, "We want this effort to be sustainable."
If the effort fails, it will not be for lack of resources. In a
separate component of its reproductive health plan, Bloomberg partnered
with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to enact Family Planning
2020's global reproductive and population goals. Is Jeb "Ultimately Accountable"?
The association with Bloomberg conflicts with Jeb's record as a
two-term pro-life governor of Florida who enacted parental consent laws,
allowed the regulation of abortion facilities, did not allow state
funds to be used for abortion counseling, and created the state's
"Choose Life" license plate.
As one of more than a dozen directors - which include such
distinguished names as former Sens. Sam Nunn and David Boren, currently
Sen. Cory Booker, and former Bush-43 officials Elaine Chao and Hank
Paulson - what responsibility does the former Florida governor bear?
The issue bubbled up in April, giving his yet-unannounced campaign an opportunity to respond.
“Governor Bush was honored to serve on the board of Bloomberg
Philanthropies, which does a lot of good work across the world,” Bush
spokeswoman Kristy Campbell told the Tampa Bay Times. "As a board member, Governor Bush did not vote on or approve individual projects or programs."
Although Bush and Bloomberg "disagree on several policy issues, both
share a passion for improving education in America," she added - a
reference to their mutual embrace of the Common Core curriculum and
other policies.
A spokeswoman for Bloomberg Philanthropies, Meghan Womack, confirmed
to the newspaper that directors do not sign off on every project.
But to what extent was Bush active in the issue?
According to nonprofit norms, directors carry deep responsibility for
the organizations they help lead. "Regardless of what board members are
called, they are in essence the trustees in the literal and legal sense
of the term," the National Center for Nonprofit Boards wrote on the responsibilities of board members. "No
matter how the organization is structured or the degree of authority
delegated to staff, committees, or affiliates, the board and therefore
the individual trustees are ultimately accountable."
Bloomberg Philanthropies noted
in a press release, "The directors will serve in an advisory and
oversight capacity." Bush earned $37,100 in compensation for his nearly
five years of service.
"Bush’s people are probably right that as a board member he did not
vote on every project," Stephen Phelan, the director of mission
communications at Human Life International,
told LifeSiteNews. "But Bloomberg has been so open about his
foundation’s goals for so long that it really stretches credibility to
say that Bush or his people wouldn’t have known that the foundation
pushes abortion and other population control efforts."
Bloomberg clarified his goals while accepting his Planned Parenthood
award last year. "You can't fight every battle," he said. "The things
that are high on my priority list are sensible gun laws...I obviously
care about a woman's right to choose...Nobody's a bigger supporter of
gay rights." He added that "we need a good immigration bill" that
provides amnesty for an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants, "so we
can continue our economy."
Bloomberg has described abortion
as a "fundamental human right, elevating it to a make-or-break
position. "On this issue, you’re either with us or against us.” He once
cited abortion among his reasons for endorsing Barack Obama in 2012.
Despite their differences on abortion policy, the billionaire has had
no reservations supporting Jeb Bush's candidacy - even before there was
one.
Last spring, he called Jeb and Hillary Clinton "two quality” candidates and "the only two who know how to make the trains run."
He also showered compliments upon Bush while introducing him to the New York State Republican Party convention in 2010.
“I couldn’t agree more with this guy,” he said of
Jeb. “If there’s anyone I would want on my side waging all those
important battles and helping provide the government Americans deserve,
it is our next speaker."
Updated 07/30/15 at 1:57 EST
July 30, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) - At the same time as a fourth video
exposing Planned Parenthood's practice of harvesting and selling
aborted baby body parts was released Thursday morning, visitors who
attempted to access Planned Parenthood's website were greeted with a
message saying, "Our site is not available due to an attack by
extremists."
The page announcing the attack stated that "200,000 people a day are
now being blocked from information and care by this attack," and
directed visitors who wanted to find out more to Planned Parenthood
Action Fund's Facebook page.
At that Facebook page, the abortion giant states that the attack is a
"new low" by anti-abortion extremists, and asks for donations to help
them "fight back."
However, some are raising questions about the purported attack,
pointing out that a look under the hood shows that content from the site
appears to be loading without a problem from Planned Parenthood's web
server, while they have categorized the "site down" message as a
"campaign."
At The Federalist,
Sean Davis points out that the splash page also directs users to
another page at ppaction.org where they can write their "story" about
where they "stand" on Planned Parenthood, in the process of which
Planned Parenthood collects their personal information.
"That’s right," says Davis. "Even though ppaction.org redirects to a
page saying the site was hacked, the domain still house (sic) a
perfectly functional URL and page that are being actively used to help
build Planned Parenthood’s fundraising list."
Some hours after the original message was put up, Planned Parenthood
changed the message to say simply that the website was "undergoing
maintenance."
However, in comments to CNN Wednesday, Dawn Laguens, Planned
Parenthood’s executive vice president, said that the website was
originally brought down briefly on Wednesday by a distributed denial of
service attack. “Although our websites were back online shortly after
the attack, in order to ensure that we are fully protected, we’ve made
the decision to take our website offline for a day,” she said, according
to Jezebel.
The alleged attack comes days after Planned Parenthood had issued a statement
claiming that "extremists" opposed to their agenda, "have called on the
world’s most sophisticated hackers to assist them in breaching our
systems and threatening the privacy and safety of our staff members."
At that time LifeSiteNews spoke with cybersecurity experts who said
the attack appeared to be legitimate, but that it was not as
sophisticated as Planned Parenthood claimed, given the outdated version
of the abortion behemoth’s webserver.
The abortion giant has been reeling in recent weeks from a series of undercover videos,
which appear to show high level Planned Parenthood staff negotiating to
profit from the sale of body parts harvested from aborted babies. The
videos have also shown the staff describing how they alter the abortion
procedure to procure the best specimens possible.
No one has claimed responsibility for the attack.
"Planned Parenthood says it’s been hacked by 'extremists,' but a
review of the publicly available evidence suggests that the only things
being hacked at Planned Parenthood right now are perfectly healthy and
viable unborn babies," said Davis. Developing...
WASHINGTON, D.C., July 30, 2015 (C-Fam)
- In advance of President Barack Obama’s visit to Kenya, the dissident
abortion group Catholics for Choice, bought a billboard with the message
for Obama to strike down the U.S. law that forbids taxpayer money
paying for abortions overseas.
The Kenyan government took down the billboard, though the group also bought full-page ads in the Kenyan newspapers.
In trying to end this policy, Catholics for Choice and other
pro-abortion groups make claims about the law and its impact that are
questionable at best.
In a press release issued in June, Catholics for Choice cast the
issue as a matter of conscience, “Catholics believe our laws and
policies should support and safeguard a woman’s conscience. They should
enable her to exercise her conscience no matter where she lives, how
much money she has in her pocket or where she receives care.”
It should be noted that Catholics for Choice and other pro-abortion
groups oppose conscience rights for medical personnel who object to the
abortion procedure.
The
release goes on to assert that the Helm’s Amendment “serves as a
complete ban on support for any abortion care or counseling on options
for a pregnancy.” What the Helm’s Amendment does is say U.S. government money cannot go
to groups overseas that promote or perform abortions. The Helm’s
Amendment does not prevent non-US funded groups from performing or
promoting abortions. Billions of dollars are spent overseas by foreign
governments, US foundations, and by domestic governments and the Helm’s
Amendment does not touch them. Each of them is totally free to promote
and perform abortions.
The Helm’s Amendment has been consistent U.S. law since 1973, the
same year Roe V. Wade imposed abortion on demand on the United States,
and giving the U.S. among the most radical abortion laws in the world.
One consistent aspect to the abortion debate in America is that
Americans do not want their money going to pay for abortions. If someone
wants an abortion, she ought to pay for it herself, is the thinking.
The Helms Amendment codified this in foreign policy.
At the time it was passed, Senator Jesse Helms made it clear the law
referred strictly to abortion and not to family planning, a claim now
commonly made by Catholics for Choice and other abortion groups. The
reference in the group’s press release to “counseling on options for a
pregnancy” is a reference to the use of contraceptives. The Helms
Amendment is silent on contraception and always has been. Catholics for Choice, the Global Center for Justice and likeminded
groups insist Obama could change the law with a stroke of a pen and, for
instance, allow for U.S. funding of abortions in conflict areas, even
where abortion is against the law. Jon O’Brien, president of Catholics
for Choice, a group repeatedly condemned by bishops around the world,
said he and his allies have met repeatedly with White House personnel on
this issue, all to no avail.
O’Brien calls the Helms Amendment “cruel, unnecessary and downright harmful
