The pro-life organization Live Action held a rally outside Planned Parenthood in Washington, DC, calling for pro-lifers across the nation to call for the government to stop funding the abortionists.
The group said the government gave $500 million taxpayer dollars to the country’s largest abortion provider.
Live Action says that in addition to the abortion services, Planned Parenthood is using taxpayer dollars to teach dangerous sexual practices to underage children.
“[Planned Parenthood] is a $2.1 billion corporation that has a dangerous sexual agenda for teens,” Lila Rose of Live Action said at the event.
“Someone has to draw attention to it,” added Live Action’s Drew Belsky. “We decided that it should be us.”
“Mother Teresa, an expert on peace who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, said that ‘the greatest destroyer of peace in the world is the cry of the innocent unborn child.’ The womb, which should be a safe, secure place, has become a war zone,” Rose told the crowd.
The governor of Vermont has nothing but praise for an organization that kills tens of thousands of children every year.
Governor Peter Shumlin said that all residents of Vermont should feel “blessed” to have the “extraordinary work” of the organization in their state. Vermont is the only state in the nation where you can kill your baby via abortion during all nine months of pregnancy.
“Vermont is unusual. We should be blessed to live here with a Planned Parenthood that does extraordinary work, and a legislature that will stand behind you,” he said. “Let’s make Vermont an example for how this nation should deal with health care and reproductive rights.”
Planned Parenthood has 11 facilities in the state and receives $1.8 million dollars a year in Title X family planning funds.
Those standing for the lives of unborn children say that Planned Parenthood has an undue amount of influence of state politics.
“Sometimes we refer to them here in Vermont as the fourth branch of government,” Mary Hahn Beerworth of Vermont Right To Life said. “In 2010, when Peter Shumlin ran for governor for the first time, Planned Parenthood illegally raised and spent over $100,000 to run television ads that may well have made the difference in the election [as] they were run in the last few weeks. Most recently, our attorney general fined them $30,000 when he found them in violation of the law.”
A former Portland-area teacher who stood up to Planned Parenthood is filing a lawsuit after the school punished him and refused to renew his contract.
Bill Diss, an 11-year math and computer science teacher at Benson High School in Portland, Oregon, has been an outspoken critic of Planned Parenthood and their abortion services. In March 2014, police removed him because he refused to allow the abortionists in his classroom.
The abortionists were going through the school bribing students to sign up for a program by promising gifts and cash.
In 2012, he had refused to allow the group into the classroom. The principal and vice principal then came into the room and temporarily removed him from the room. The next day, the school forced him to sit on instruction from Planned Parenthood. The school also used his name on documents sent home with students promoting Planned Parenthood without his permission.
“Because he expressed his opposition to the activities of Planned Parenthood at Benson High School, [Diss] became a target,” the legal challenge reads. “They launched a full-scale assault on the plaintiff as a teacher. He was observed and evaluated on the most minute aspects of his teaching.”
“As the attention mounted, the plaintiff was summoned for questioning by Benson High School administrators,” the lawsuit states. “He was interrogated about his activities by the principal and by an attorney for the district. The activities in question occurred on his own time, not at school, nonetheless he was specifically instructed not to mention the fact that he was a teacher or where he worked when making public statements.”
The school denies they persecuted this teacher because he would not support the abortionist group.
A group of Texas family planning clinics has announced they are severing all ties with the nation’s largest abortion provider.
The group previously known as “Planned Parenthood Assocation of Hidalgo County” has changed their name to “Access Esperanza Clinics” and said the move was done to obtain funding for services.
“Changing our name and affiliation allows our agency to apply for state health programs and make low-cost services more available for thousands of our low-income women, men and teens,” Patricio C. Gonzales, CEO of Access Esperanza, said in a web letter. “We hope to be approved for the state’s Texas Women’s Health Program services by October 2014 and plan to apply for other programs to expand our range of primary care services.”
Planned Parenthood acknowledged they had been cut out of the group.
Access Esperanza does not list abortion as one of the procedures they offer to the public.
The funding to the group had been curtailed because of Senate Bill 7 passed in 2011. The bill revoked government funding of Planned Parenthood affiliated groups.
The president of the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission is calling out a man who is telling people that he is killing babies through abortion as a “ministry.”
Dr. Willie Parker, a former medical director for Planned Parenthood, has been performing abortions (including late term abortions) at a clinic in Jackson, Mississippi. He has been leading the fight against the state’s law requiring better health care standards for abortion clinics and for doctors to have admitting rights at hospitals if they perform abortions.
Dr. Parker claims that he is doing “abortion ministry” by killing babies for women who don’t want to become mothers. He compares himself to the good Samaritan of the Bible and even had a newspaper feature championing his “abortion ministry.” He said he can’t understand why people think he might not be a Christian.
“The protesters say they’re opposed to abortion because they’re Christian,” Parker explained. “It’s hard for them to accept that I do abortions because I’m a Christian.”
Southern Baptist ERLC head Russell Moore says that people question Dr. Parker as a Christian because he’s killing babies for profit. He also says Parker’s claims that he’s like the “good Samaritan” are flawed at the core.
“That would be true, of course, if the Samaritan in Jesus’ story had euthanized the neighbor, to put him out of his misery. Of course, he didn’t. Instead, the Samaritan took the neighbor on as his own kin, nursing him back to health and caring for him, a picture that looks a lot like what many of the pro-life churches and organizations Parker dismisses are, in fact, doing for women in crisis and their babies,” said Moore.
“We can pray that this abortion doctor hears and receives that sort of mercy that transforms the direction and purpose of his life. We can pray for a ‘come to Jesus’ moment that puts him on the right side of the Jericho Road.”
The state of Ohio has been carrying out a crackdown on abortion clinics.
Two of the clinics are at risk of losing their licenses to end babies’ lives. Northeast Ohio Women’s Center in Cuyahoga Falls and Capital Care Network of Toledo have been recommended to lose their licenses by the Ohio Department of Health. If the clinics do not contest the action by the ODH, they would have to close August 12th.
A Planned Parenthood office in Bedford Heights was fined $25,000 after a March inspection of the facility.
“One of the reasons Planned Parenthood was fined is because the facility was improperly storing containers of human tissue, which brings the name of notorious abortionist Kermit Gosnell to mind,” Katherine McCann of Ohio Right To Life told the Christian Post. “Another was because of improper follow-up documentation for two abortion patients who were hospitalized for bleeding and a perforated uterus. How is any of this ‘healthcare’? The real war on women is being waged by Ohio’s abortion facilities.”
McCann said that the crackdown is part of actions taken by the state’s governor to hold clinics accountable for unsanitary conditions.
“Before Governor Kasich’s administration, it was a struggle to ensure that Ohio’s abortion facilities were being held to common-sense health and safety standards. That’s really what we’re talking about here, common-sense standards,” said McCann. “ODH isn’t holding these facilities to extra special standards — any inspection a clinic undergoes is in line with the Ohio Revised Code. But Ohio’s abortion industry can’t even meet these basic requirements. Thankfully, for the last four years, abortion mills haven’t been allowed to skirt the law like they used to.”
A Democrat appointed federal judge has struck down an abortion law in Alabama that has passed Constitutional muster in multiple other states.
U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson ruled that the law would require women to travel to obtain the end of their child’s life, and that because many of them are poor, it causes an undue burden on them to travel.
“A significant number of the women would be prevented from obtaining an abortion; others would be delayed in obtaining abortions, exposing them to greater risks of complications; and even the women who are able to obtain abortions would suffer significant harms in terms of time, financial cost, and invasion of privacy,” Thompson wrote.
Several abortionists including Planned Parenthood had sued to block the law that would have require doctors to have admitting privileges in the event they botch an abortion and cause a critical injury to a woman.
Thompson even suggested that there is no difference between abortion rights and gun rights.
Two Democratic senators have introduced a bill they say is aimed to overrule the Hobby Lobby Supreme Court decision and force Christian business owners to pay for abortion drugs.
Anti-life Senators Patty Murray of Washington and Mark Udall of Colorado have created what they titled the “Protect Women’s Health From Corporate Interference Act.” Abortionists like Planned Parenthood have already praised the bill.
“After five justices decided last week that an employer’s personal views can interfere with women’s access to essential health services, we in Congress need to act quickly to right this wrong,” Murray said in a statement yesterday. “This bicameral legislation will ensure that no CEO or corporation can come between people and their guaranteed access to health care, period.”
“As the nation’s leading advocate for women’s reproductive health care, Planned Parenthood Action Fund is committed to making sure women can get the no-copay birth control benefit that we and others fought so hard to pass and protect,” Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards proclaimed. “No woman should lose access to birth control because her boss doesn’t approve of it.”
None of the Senators nor any of the groups speaking out in favor of the bill have mentioned that the Court’s decision only applies to 4 of the 20 contraceptives connected to the Affordable Care Act. This means that no women working for these companies is denied contraception.
A former clinic manager for Planned Parenthood is speaking out about that organization’s drive to create as many abortions as possible.
Abby Johnson, who spent ten years working for the abortion group, told the Christian Post that Planned Parenthood has a model where abortion is the only way to make money and generate revenue.
“Workers know there’s a quota. They become sales people for abortion, otherwise Planned Parenthood will lay off workers,” said Johnson.
Johnson is speaking out after releasing a photo of an award that Planned Parenthood gave to its Aurora, Colorado clinic praising them for killing more babies via abortion in the first half of Fiscal Year 2013 compared to the previous year.
“We were rewarded in some ways — if we met our quotas, we’d have a pizza party or the COO would come down and take us to lunch or something like that. But to actually have an award on paper, that was something I had never seen before,” said Johnson.
Johnson said that Planned Parenthood is lying to the public when they say they provide prenatal services to women. She said all the organization does is provide prenatal vitamins but all other services were stopped in 2009.
Johnson said that Planned Parenthood heads use “creative accounting” to claim only 3 percent of overall revenue comes from abortion when in reality it’s over 50 percent.
Planned Parenthood has been launching a social media campaign attacking NBC, claiming the network refused a commercial for a movie that contains the word “abortion”.
However, NBC says the representatives of the movie never contacted them regarding any interest in buying spots to promote their movie.
Planned Parenthood’s president released a statement slamming the network with the propaganda claim that the “vast majority” of Americans support abortion and that the network “belongs in another decade” for not running commercials for the movie Obvious Child. They ran a campaign on twitter telling NBC to “stop the stigma” of abortion.
NBC released a statement saying that the claims of the pro-abortion group are false.
“No final spots were submitted to NBC broadcast standards for on-air consideration and NBC broadcast advertising sales was never contacted about a media buy on NBC for spots related to this movie,” explained an NBC spokesperson. “Moreover, initial feedback from our broadcast standards group did not include any suggestion to remove a specific word.”
The movie, which Newsbusters’ Katie Yoder reviewed as “little more than slick pro-abortion” political propaganda, is being presented as a romantic comedy about a character who gets an abortion after becoming pregnant from a one night stand.
