Killing the Holy Innocents - 2000 Years Ago & Now

Then it was done under the orders of King Herod because he was afraid of any rival that might cause him to lose his power as ruler. 

Now it is done by Planned Parenthood & the abortion industry with the approval of President Obama whom they helped elect & he is doing his best to keep happy so that they will help him stay in power.

Pictures of aborted babies here

The names may have changed, but the story is the same one, people sold out to evil working to create a "culture of death" in opposition to God's plans for a Culture of Life.  Of course there is 1 huge difference. Herod probably had only 20-30 babies murdered. Planned Parenthood alone murders an unborn baby every 96 seconds, day in & day out. There are about 3-4 thousand total abortions done daily in the USA alone.

But just as back then, the children were not the only victims. The story of the Holy Innocents in Matthew 2 ends with the following: "Then were fulfilled the words spoken through the prophet Jeremiah: 'A voice is heard in Ramah, lamenting and weeping bitterly: it is Rachel weeping for her children, refusing to be comforted because they are no more.'" (Matthew 2:17-18)

These days, despite claims by the abortion industry to the contrary, there are many other victims of abortion. They include the women who had the abortion as well as the fathers of the aborted children. The damage done to them is emotional, just like that described in the prophecy from Jeremiah. Studies, many of them done by abortion supporters, have shown that men & women feel emptiness & isolation after abortion. Additionally, there is the guilt often felt knowing that what they have done was wrong. & while the abortion industry attempts to deny or downplay this damage, it isn't. That is why many groups have sprung up to help people find the spiritual & emotional healing they need. I have links to many of them in the right hand column under Post-abortion healing.

History for the most part has ignored what Herod did. Some even try to deny it because they say there is no contemporary evidence outside the Bible. Given the total track record of Herod, it is easy to see how this would be seen as just another in the long list of atrocities done by Herod, & a minor one at that.

These days, the abortion industry has shown that they are deserving to be called modern day heirs to the Herodian dynasty, not only by the number of abortions, but by the many other atrocities they have done as well. I have reported many times about the coverups of rape & incest, the horrific conditions of abortion clinics etc. & like Herod, they are doing all they can to maintain their power, no matter how illegal, immoral,  or corrupt the actions they use.

Herod the Great killed the Holy Innocents & even his children to maintain his corrupt reign. His granddaughter Herodius had John the Baptist killed because he proclaimed the truth about her sinful relationship with Herod Antipas. Today, the modern Herods do not like the message that the Catholic Church & others are proclaiming about what they do. So they try to get bubble laws passed, they try to pass laws attacking crisis pregnancy centers, they paint all pro-lifers as violent while they are the truly violent ones. (As a reminder, those few who do commit violent acts like arson, assault & murder in the name of ending abortion are not truly representative of the Pro-life movement. In fact they are antithetical to what we stand for.)

On this day, as we remember those 1st martyrs for Christ let us rededicate ourselves to fighting to put an end to abortion. Let us ask God to give us the courage to proclaim the truth in word & deed. May He guide & bless our efforts to build a Culture of Life. May we soon see an end to the "culture of death".

Holy Innocents we ask your intercession for those of us who are working to put an end to abortion. Plead with God for His blessings on our efforts to put an end to this modern day slaughter of innocents. Pray too for those men & women who are suffering from the emotional damage done to them as a result of participating in an abortion. Lead them to those groups who offer God's healing forgiveness they so sorely need.

Meet Baby Manuel

Last October I shared the story of how Tara Shaver, a sidewalk counselor who used text messaging to prevent a coerced abortion from happenning. Jane (not her real name) who was 17 & a senior in high school. She was being coerced into the abortion by her mother. Neither Jane or the baby's father wanted the abortion. Tara had been contacted by the baby's paternal grandmother to see if she could do something to save her grandchild. At the time Jane was in the waiting room of the Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Tara was outside the clinic. The baby's grandmother, Gloria, gave Tara Jane's cell phone number. Through a combination of messages & pictures, Tara was able to get her to come out. She spoke with Jane until Jane's father showed up to pick her up.

Tara followed up with Jane to ensure she had to ongoing help & support she needed. On 10 May 2011 Manuel was born. He weighed 7 pounds. The next week Jane graduated from high school.

While the story doesn't say, I suspect that neither Jane's mother or anyone with Planned parenthood was aware of who was texting Jane or why. I say this knowing Planned Parenthood's track record of cooperation with those who coerce a teenaged girl into having an abortion. I am sure they would have tried to put a stop to the texting rather than let Jane make her own mind up & keep the baby.

Tara was a former intern for Operation Rescue. Clearly she was able to learn some valuable lessons during her time there. Lessions she was able to put into use so that Baby Manuel is alive today. I agree wholeheartedly with Troy Newman, president of Operation Rescue, when he calls both Jane & Sara heroes. Speaking about the situation he said “Coerced abortions are a very real and understated problem in our country. Jane is a hero for having the courage to stand up for her baby even though the deck was stacked against her. We congratulate her on the birth of her precious son, Manuel, and on her graduation.

But Jane could not have done it without Tara’s love and support. She is also a hero too, for thinking ‘outside the box’ and using texting to save Manuel’s life and protect Jane from the emotional trauma of a coerced abortion. Tara took time to follow up with Jane, and make sure she had the help and support she needed. We are very proud of Tara and all she and her husband, Bud, are accomplishing on the pro-life mission field of Albuquerque.”

While this story has a happy ending, it also serves to remind us how many teenage girls are being forced into having an abortion against their will. & how Planned Parenthood has been proven time & time again through undercover investigations to be willing to coperate with those who are making her have the abortion. Additionally, in doing so Planned Parenthood is often aiding & abetting in the cover up of incest or statuatory rape as well. There are many good reasons for Planned Parenthood to be completely cut off from any of our tax money. & this is is one of the prime ones.

Source: Meet Manuel, a Baby Saved from Coerced Abortion by Texting

1st Texas, Now Ohio

Earlier today I posted about a girl in Texas who went to court to keep from being forced by her parents to have an abortion (Another Proof That Choice Isn't Always Choice, It Is Coercion). A little while ago I came across a story from Ohio about a 17 year old pregnant girl in the Columbus, Ohio area who went to court to get permission to marry before turning 18. Why? As she told the judge she was afraid "she could be forced to have an abortion if she stayed at home." While the girl's mother denies it, her new father-in-law told the press that his daughter-in-law felt that she was in an unsafe environment.

Again I applaud the father of the child for not shirking his responsibilities. Or doing what a lot of other men do, coerce the woman into having an abortion. Which leads me to a 2nd Ohio story about an attempt to coerce a woman into having an abortion. In this case the story is about a man who tried to force his girlfriend to have an abortion at gunpoint. Fortunately the employee at the abortion mill did the right thing in this case & helped her to get out rather than go through with it.

The article mentions an incident from 2008 in Wisconsin where prosecutors charged a man with attempted first-degree intentional homicide of an unborn child after his pregnant girlfriend suspected he gave her a drink spiked with RU-486, a drug used to induce abortions.

& I have also posted many other stories about women being forced into abortions when the choice they wanted was to let the child live.

My question is this, why aren't the "pro-choice" people speaking up about how horrible it is that these women are being denied their right to choose to keep the child? Oh yeah, the answer is simple. They are Pro-choice only when that choice is for abortion. As I said before, look at how upset they got when Palin chose to have Trig rather than abort him because he was diagnosed with Down syndrome. Or the whole Tim Tebow & his Mom Super Bowl ad brouhaha. They don't want any choice but abortion to be made, even if it that choice is forced on a woman. & if that forced abortion helps cover up a rape or incest, well that doesn't matter either to the so called "pro-choice" side. Someone chose to have the child aborted, & that is all that matters to them.

As I am writing this post another thought crossed my mind. This involves Obama's comment about not wanting his daughters "punished with a baby". In light of the several recent stories about parents trying to force their daughters into an abortion, I have to wonder if the real person he felt would be punished would be himself, not his daughters.

Another Proof That Choice Isn't Always Choice, It Is Coercion

I am a bit surprized, but relieved, that Planned Parenthood didn't abet her parents in forcing her to have an abortion. I say that because it isn't clear if they actually got her inside the PP clinic. I suspect they didn't & that is why she wasn't forced to go through with it. Given PP's track record, you can be sure they would have ignored the girl's wishes & abort the child instead. But for whatever reason the 16 year old girl wasn't forced to go through with the abortion. I pray that the courts will issue the temporary injunction.

What we see is just another in a long line of examples that prove that, despite Pro-abort claims to the contrary, abortion isn't a woman's choice.

You can be sure that the parents will continue to exert pressure on her even with the court order. I suspect her parents will also do everything they can to keep her from getting help from Pro-life sources including a crisis pregnancy center. & you can be sure that any injunction will be ignored if they do get her into a clinic.

I also have to applaud the father of the unborn child for refusing to condone the abortion. It sounds like he is willing to take his paternal responsibilities seriously. I have no idea what would be best for the unborn child, the parents keeping the child or putting it up for adoption. This is where CPCs provide an invaluable service. They would be able to help the parents decide what is best for the child. & either of those options are better than the death sentence the abortion clinics & her parents want to impose on the unborn child.

TEXAS PARENTS STOPPED FROM FORCING TEENAGE DAUGHT TO HAVE ABORTION

by Steven ErteltLife

News.com Editor

Austin, TX (LifeNews.com) -- With the help of pro-life attorneys from the Alliance Defense Fund, a 16-year-old Texas girl has secured a temporary restraining order preventing her parents from forcing her to have an abortion.
On two occasions, the teenager’s mother literally dragged her to local abortion facilities, including International Healthcare Solutions and Planned Parenthood of the Texas Capital Region, demanding that her daughter take the live of her unborn child.
Though she refused and the child’s father also does not want the baby killed, her parents continued to insist that they will force her to have the abortion. The court’s order prevents that from happening.
“No one should be allowed to decide that an innocent life--especially one that belongs to someone else--is worthless," says Stephen Casey of Round Rock, one of the allied attorneys ADF works with in Texas.
He told LifeNews.com in a statement, "The right not to have an abortion is protected by law, and this right isn't relinquished just because someone else considers the child to be an unwanted burden."
The 16-year-old high school student, who is 13 weeks pregnant, was even more confirmed in her decision against having an abortion after receiving information from a pro-life prayer worker outside one of the abortion facilities to which her mother took her.
Casey and another ADF-allied attorney, Gregory R. Terra of Georgetown, filed the motion for the restraining order together with Allan E. Parker of The Justice Foundation in San Antonio.
The Justice Foundation’s Center Against Forced Abortion and the two ADF-allied attorneys working with the Texas Alliance for Life and the Austin Coalition for Life coordinated efforts on the girl’s behalf to file a motion for a temporary restraining order on Sunday. The court granted it Monday. She is still living with her parents.
ADF Legal Counsel Matt Bowman also weighed in on the case.
“This situation illustrates what a difference it can make when a woman is more fully informed about the true nature of abortion," he said. “We intend to fully support this young woman in her desire to allow her child to live.”
The motion for the temporary restraining order was filed by ADF-allied attorneys in the District Court of Travis County. A hearing in the case is scheduled for October 28 to consider a motion to convert the temporary restraining order into a temporary injunction.
Related web sites:Alliance Defense Fund - http://www.telladf.org/

Texting Prevents Coerced Abortion

Yesterday I put up a post about how a woman was being coerced at gunpoint to have an abortion. & while this time it wasn't at gunpoint, the girl was still still being coerced.

I am assuming that the boyfriend is the father. Based on that it is interesting to contrast the 2 grandmothers. 1 wanted to kill of her grandchild, the other save it. Thank God the one who wanted to save it was able to get ahold of someone who could do something, & did. & while there are valid complaints about how much time teens spend texting, this is 1 time where the ability to do so was a good thing.

Again, assuming the boyfriend is the father, this also shows how his rights as father are totally denied. But after the child is born, he would be expected to be responsible. You can't have it both ways. Either the father can protect the child before birth, or radical feminists better be willing to say that men have no responsibilities after birth. & they sure haven't been willing to do that. Now if abortion was illegal, as it should be, this problem wouldn't show up.

Of course, the main thing this story hilights is the fact that a huge number of women, esp minors, are being coerced into an abortion. That it isn't a "choice" they make. The abortion industry has fought parental notification laws because they interfer with the girl's right to choose. So why aren't they speaking out about those same girls not being allowed to choose to keep the baby?

OK, that last question is rhetorical. The abortion industry knows the truth, that a huge number, esp those involving underaged mothers, aren'rt choosing, they are being forced. But since the truth would cut down on their business, they will continue to claim the suppoert a woman's right to choice while applauding the fact that over 1/2 the abortions they do are not the choice of the woman.

Text Messaging Prevents Coerced Abortion at Planned Parenthood

Young mother never wanted an abortion, but didn’t know she could refuse until her phone alerted her to an incoming text message
[Note: The following story contains quotes from text messages that do not contain proper grammatical structure or punctuation, as is common practice in texting. We left the quotes unedited in the interest of accurately reporting on this incident.]
Albuquerque, NM – The seventeen-year-old teen sat nervously in the waiting room of the Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on Thursday, October 7, 2010. She was six weeks pregnant and did not want to have an abortion, but her mother had insisted.
Suddenly, her phone alerted her to an incoming text message.
“Jane, [not her real name] you are a mom! Please choose life for your baby, we want to help you! Tara”
That began a texting conversation that ultimately led to the young mother leaving the abortion clinic with the firm decision to keep her baby.
Tara Shaver, a pro-life activist and sidewalk counselor who is a former intern for Operation Rescue, had received a call from a woman named Gloria, who told Tara that her grandson’s girlfriend was being pressured into an abortion she did not want.
Gloria gave Tara the girlfriend’s mother cell phone number and asked her to intervene. Tara called the mother, who spoke rudely to Tara before hanging up on her.
Gloria then gave Tara Jane’s number. Tara answered Jane’s questions and even texted her a picture of a baby at 6 weeks gestation, the same age as Jane’s baby, and told her to ask to see her ultrasound images.
“Can i see an ultrasound an still tell them i dont want it done?” texted Jane in typical testing lingo.
“Yes you dont have to do anything you dont want…you can leave now and go next door they willhelp you just leave now,” replied Tara.
“my parents wont let me,” responded Jane.
“This incident highlights the epidemic of coerced and forced abortions that occur with alarming frequency in this nation,” said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman. “Abortion clinics like Planned Parenthood are all too willing to exploit women in vulnerable circumstances in order to make a buck. More must be done to inform and protect women from being coerced into abortions they do not want. Thank God for a loving grandmother and Tara Shaver who were able to avert tragedy in this instance.”
Tara assured Jane that she did not have to do anything she did not want to do. She encouraged her by telling her that her grandparents and boyfriend did not want her to have the abortion and that they would be supportive of her and the new baby. Jane asked her if Tara could help with an adoption, and Tara assured her that she could. Tara encouraged Jane to come outside and talk to her.
“I am coming over there to meet u! Lets talk before u make your final decision, theres no hurry,” texted Tara.
Jane replied, “please come now.”
“Will be there in a few minutes go outside,” texted Tara.
Finally, Tara was able to meet with Jane and get her the help she needed. Jane’s father came to the clinic to pick up Jane and take her home. Tara will follow up with Jane to make sure she gets the support she needs.
Tara’s last text message to Jane was poignant.
“We are so proud of u! You are my hero, your baby is so proud too!”

It Will Be Interesting to See How the "Pro-Choice" Gang Deal With This

I wouldn't hold my breathe waiting however. It is clear that the woman's "choice" wasn't abortion. & despite claims to the contrary their use of the term choice is as a synonym for abortion. Remember how they screamed becasue Palin chose to have her Down syndrome child? Or Tim Tebow & his Mom for extoling her choice?

But if they decry the violence they will be saying the woman had the right to change her mind. & if he made the appointment against her wishes, then they will be admitting that there are abortions where the woman didn't have a choice. Something that is way more common than the Pro-abort hang wants to admit.

Remember the story about the man who pulled the gun on two pro-life women at an abortion clinic in Arizona? (& Where is The Main Stream Media On This????) As it later came out, he had a bunch of guns in the car & may have been trying to coerce his daughter into having the abortion. (Shooting Threat Raises Question Of Coerced Abortion ) This sounds liks a similar incident. & while a lot of women aren't forced at gunpoint, a lot more are forced that the "pro-choice" gang wants to admit. In fact, up to 64% of abortions involve some degree or another of coersion. (Forced Abortions)

I guess that since 1 of the people involved chose abortion (spouse, family, boyfriend) then it doesn't matter for them if the woman wasn't the person making the choice.

So the next time you hear someone say "I am not pro-abortion, I am pro-choice." ask him or her if that choice has to be made by the woman, or can be forced on her by someone else. You may run into someone who is honest, but most of them will deny it happens or downplay how often it happens.

Mom taken for abortion at gunpoint

By Jeb Phillips
THE COLUMBUS DISPATA Near East Side man pointed a gun at a pregnant woman and forced her to go to a clinic yesterday morning after she refused to go through with a scheduled abortion there, Columbus police say.
Dominic L. Holt-Reid, 27, of 579 Kelton Ave., was arrested and charged with kidnapping and carrying a concealed weapon.
Police found him about 9:45 a.m. in a parking lot behind Founder's Women's Health Center, 1243 E. Broad St., said Sgt. Rich Weiner, a Columbus police spokesman.
Holt-Reid and Yolanda M. Burgess, the woman he forced to the clinic, have a child together, Weiner said. But they do not appear to share a home address, he said. State birth records show that child is a 4-year-old boy.

Burgess was in a vehicle with Holt-Reid yesterday morning after dropping their child off at school, according to a police statement. Holt-Reid became angry after Burgess refused to go through with an abortion that had been scheduled for 9 a.m. at the clinic.
Holt-Reid pulled a handgun from the glove compartment, pointed it at her and forced her to drive to the health clinic, according to police. The woman passed a note to a clinic employee, who called police.
Burgess wasn't harmed.
Birth records show that Holt-Reid also has a 3-year-old daughter with another woman. He is scheduled to appear in Franklin County Municipal Court this morning and was in the Franklin County jail last night.
Burgess and her family couldn't be reached for comment yesterday.

Coerced Abortions - More Common in the USA Than Pro-Aborts & Radical feminists Want to Admit

This is a dirty little secret those who talk about it being a woman's choice don't want to get out, that a lot of abortions are NOT the woman's choice. It is often the father of the baby (spouse or boyfriend, rapist or relative that is in an incestuous relationship with the girl, sometimes voluntary but usually forced on her) or a parent of a teen that forces the child to have an abortion, often to protect their reputation, not their daughter's.

Often the women are faced with threats of violence if they don't have an abortion. Sometimes the girl is forced to do so in order to cover up a rape or incest. Other times it is because the man doesn't want to take any responsibility for the child. & as this article points out, it is a lot more common that the people who call themselves "pro-choice" want to admit.

This is another reason who Crisis Pregnancy Centers are so important. they often help women to find an alternative & an out they otherwise don't have.

New Initiative Offers Help to Girls Facing Pressure to Abort

By Kathleen Gilbert
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, September 24, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Pregnant teens often face pressure to undergo an abortion from parents or others - but a new resource soon to be distributed around the country will offer such young women hope and legal recourse in a seemingly hopeless situation.
While many may think of coerced abortion as a phenomenon found only in countries such as China, pro-life sidewalk counselors across America testify to routinely witnessing young girls being practically dragged into abortion clinics by fathers or mothers unwilling to handle their daughters' pregnancies.
Eric Scheidler of the Pro-Life Action League said that, from his experience as a sidewalk counselor outside abortion clinics, coerced abortion is an all-too-frequent phenomenon.
"From what I've seen outside abortion facilities, many women -- especially young women -- are being coerced into aborting their unborn babies," Scheidler told LifeSiteNews.com. "Often the young woman will clearly want to come over and talk to a pro-life sidewalk counselor, only to have her boyfriend, husband or parent push her on into the clinic, sometimes forcibly.
"Again and again, women will tell our counselors, 'I have no choice,'" he continued. "They're threatened with being abandoned or kicked out of the house. Sometimes they're even threatened with murder."
Scheidler said he expected that efforts to end such coercion, if successful, would make abortion rates "plummet."
A project of the Justice Foundation, the Center Against Forced Abortions (CAFA), hopes to put an end to forced abortion by empowering young women with their legal rights. CAFA has already found success saving lives by offering young women a letter drafted by Justice Foundation attorneys that outlines to parents the legal rights of their daughters to carry their child to term.
Justice Foundation President Allan Parker said the experience of helping teenage girls escape pressure from parents to abort provided the inspiration to draft a letter informing those who are unaware of their rights.
"What's the basic premise of Roe v Wade? It's the woman's choice ... [and] choice implies being able to say yes or no," said Parker.
The letter informs parents - or any other "concerned persons" - that, "even though abortion may be legal, you do not have any right to force, coerce, exert undue influence, or pressure your daughter to have an abortion," citing the 1979 U.S. Supreme Court case Bellotti v. Baird. Such force, they note, may "subject you to reporting and prosecution for child abuse. Besides possible criminal prosecution, if you force, coerce, or exert undue pressure, then both you and the abortionist could be held liable for various civil torts, such as battery, negligence, false imprisonment, or other claims."
Parker said that the letter could prove lifesaving to the children of young mothers unaware of their legal rights.
"Knowledge is power, and there are legal rights that they have," he said.
But not only teenage girls should receive the information in the letter, he said. The pro-life leader urged the letter to be distributed to pregnancy centers, police stations, government offices such as child protection services, and school counselors.
Jeanneane Maxon, general counsel for Care Net, said that she was "shocked" at the lack of awareness not only among ordinary citizens, but even active members of the pro-life community. Maxon told LifeSiteNews.com that Care Net "often" receives questions from pregnancy centers unaware "that parents and others cannot force their children to have an abortion."

The Ugly Facts About RU-486

This article was printed in the June 2010 issue of Life Issues Connector which is put out by the Life Issues Institute. I received this issue a few days ago. I don't think it is any coincidence that it came at the same time the use of this drug by Planned Parenthood here in Iowa has been making the news. After reading it, I decided it definitely needed to be posted

This article takes a look at what RU-486 actually does as well as the harm it does to women. In all the talk about how PP dispenses it to perform a "telemed abortion" I have not seen any evidence that PP requires them to come back for the required followup check-up. (The article points that out as well.) & I am sure that PP does NOT mention much of what the FDA requires it to. Nor do they warn of the dangers. This is why Operation Rescue filed a complaint with the Iowa Board of Medicine after their investigation of how PP was abusing the "telemed" process. & I do mean abusing it as you will see from the article below as well as the report by Operation Rescue here.

(Life Issues Institute is headed by J.C. Wilke MD. Dr Wilke & his wife Barbera wrote what was the seminal book on the truth about abortion,, Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger, etc. Handbook on Abortion, in 1971. This book has been revised & expanded over the years. The current version, Abortion, Questions and Answers: Why Can’t We Love Them Both, continues to be the best go to source. There is an online version available in PDF format.)

FEMINIST STRATEGY BACKFIRING
Drug used to assault women
By Susan W. Enouen, P.E.

RU 486, the abortion pill, is used to cause chemical abortions in early pregnancy. Since its controversial approval by the FDA in September of 2000, it can be prescribed to pregnant women of any age, even teenagers. Led by pro-abortion feminists in the 1990’s, the fervent sales pitch for its approval called for a safe, effective, inexpensive and accessible abortifacient. According to Planned Parenthood’s Alexander Sanger, it represented “one of the most important victories for women in this century.” To Kate Michelman of NARAL, it was the “biggest thing since the birth control pill.” All rhetoric aside, the reality of RU 486 is that after nearly ten years on the market, this “victory for women” has taken 7 American women’s lives (that we know of), caused serious complications in hundreds of others, and provided a new instrument for the abuse of women.

To produce a chemical abortion, a “killer cocktail” combination of drugs is used to ensure the deadly result. The FDA approved protocol1 calls for 600 mg of RU 486, or mifepristone, to be taken by a woman who is up to 7 weeks pregnant. This drug is a progesterone blocker, which deprives the developing baby of essential nutrients and causes him/her to die of starvation. Two days later, the woman is to take 400 mg of a second drug, misoprostol, (prostaglandin) to induce contractions that will expel the dead baby. On the 14th day, the woman is to visit her doctor to confirm that the abortion is complete. If it is not, a surgical abortion is necessary.

During the intervening time, the woman is in the “privacy” of her own home, bleeding an average of 13 days (or as many as 30 days), often very heavily, possibly witnessing the expulsion of the baby in the process. As gruesome as this may sound, it is a best-case scenario. Even so, pro-abortion feminists thought RU 486 could “mainstream abortion” by making it seem more accessible and natural. Unfortunately, the FDA approval of these drugs for such lethal purposes has unleashed a host of unintended consequences that have hurt women.

In the last few years, one news story after another has described an abortion forced on a woman by a husband or boyfriend who has given her a drug in food or drink without her knowledge:

In 2007, a 21-year-old Virginia man was sentenced to 5 years in prison for trying to poison his girlfriend with the intent of trying to cause an abortion or miscarriage. Daniel Riase crushed two misoprostol pills and put them into 19-year-old Sharii Best’s drink, after which she began to bleed. She went to the hospital, where her 11-week pregnancy ended in miscarriage. She later discovered an email receipt for his purchase of the drug.2

Also in 2007, a 34-year-old Wisconsin man named Manish Patel was arrested and charged with attempted first-degree homicide of an unborn child for trying to cause the abortion of his unborn twins. He obtained mifepristone from his native India and put it in his girlfriend’s drink. Darshana Patel never drank the spiked drink, but turned it over to the authorities after suspecting foul play. Testing confirmed the presence of the drug. Patel appears to have fled the country after posting bail.

• In 2009 in Alaska, Airman First Class Scott Boie faced a court martial for causing his wife to have an abortion. He used his computer to search for abortion drugs and got a friend to obtain misoprostol for him. He crushed up the pills and put them in his wife Caylinn’s food. She miscarried a week later, thinking it occurred naturally. She learned about his actions from a friend and confronted him.
• Thus far in 2010, a 38-year-old New York pharmacist, Orbin Eeli Tercero, has been arrested for causing his Pennsylvania mistress to have an abortion. He allegedly inserted misoprostol tablets vaginally during two sexual encounters. He also dissolved misoprostol tablets in her drinks, just to be sure. As she started miscarrying, she discovered the partially dissolved pill in her discharge. He is charged with the murder of an unborn child in the first degree.3
• Also in 2010, 31-year-old Jered Ahlstrom from Utah has pleaded guilty to unlawful termination of his girlfriend’s pregnancy. He put misoprostol in her food twice to cause an abortion. She delivered a stillborn baby 16 weeks into her pregnancy. He later admitted over email that he had caused her abortion.
• In a similar crime, a 25-year-old Maryland man, William Stanley Sutton III, spiked his girlfriend’s drink in an attempt to cause an abortion. He used a cattle hormone sometimes used to cause abortions in cows. Lauren Ashley Tucker went to the hospital complaining of a possible poisoning after consuming the foul drink that burned her throat. Both she and her 15-week-old unborn child survived. He was charged with reckless endangerment, assault and contaminating her drink.

In each case, the woman was pressured by the man to have an abortion and she refused. He took matters in his own hands and slipped her the drug. Other similar cases in the UK and New Zealand have also been reported. These incidents highlight the danger of violence to women who refuse to comply with their partner’s wish for an abortion. Equally disturbing is the idea that these news stories may just be the tip of the iceberg, for it is unknown how many “miscarriages” and stillborn births may have been caused by similar foul play that was never discovered. The availability of the RU 486 killer cocktail makes this scenario too easy to accomplish.

Unfortunately, despite the pro-abortion mantra that insists it is a woman’s “choice” to have an abortion, plenty of evidence exists that women are regularly coerced into having one. As many as 64% of women having abortions said they felt pressured to abort and 45% of men interviewed at abortion facilities recalled urging abortion. When a woman refuses to abort, it can be at the risk of losing her job, her home or her partner. She may be threatened with injury, abuse or even death.4

As a matter of fact, homicide is the leading killer of pregnant women.5 With 92% of women saying that domestic violence and assault is the women’s issue of greatest concern to them, it is not surprising that some women feel they must choose abortion to protect themselves from further violence. As it turns out, pro-abortion feminists have played right into the hands of the violent men in our society by promoting a drug that provides another means for men to forcefully impose their will on women.

In addition to the 7 American women (13 internationally) who have died after taking RU 486, FDA reports show that as of 2006: 116 women needed blood transfusions, 232 women required hospitalization, and 1,024 women reported adverse events.6 Since there is no mandatory reporting of RU 486 complications to the FDA, and because of the distinct possibility that a deadly infection may not be traced back to the use of RU 486, there is no telling how many other women have suffered serious complications or death from these chemical abortions.

A more recent study from Finland indicates that when using the abortion pill, 20% of women suffered at least one significant side effect. Of those studied, hemorrhaging occurred in 15.6% of cases, infection in 1.7%, and incomplete abortions in 6.7%. Compared to surgical abortion, the risk of hemorrhage was almost eight times higher and the risk of an incomplete abortion was five times higher.7 Other research suggests that the drug suppresses the immune system, leaving the woman more susceptible to infection.8

There are primarily two ways the RU 486 regimen can cause a woman’s death. The first is an incomplete abortion, where parts of the baby remain inside the woman’s uterus. As a result, the woman can bleed to death or she can develop a deadly blood infection and die of septic shock. The second most likely cause of death is a ruptured tubal pregnancy. Since RU 486 cannot abort a tubal pregnancy, ruling out that possibility is best done by ultrasound. Surprisingly, the FDA protocol does not require an ultrasound. As a result, the FDA reports at least 17 cases where women with tubal pregnancies took the drug, with potentially fatal consequences.9 It would seem that at the very least, there is a compelling case for vigilant care of women under this regimen, but instead, some abortion providers choose to shortcut care and focus on the financial bottom line.

For example, the abortion industry has tried to increase its profits by reducing the recommended dosage of mifepristone to 200 mg and by dispensing the drug to women up to 9 weeks pregnant, increasing the risks of incomplete abortion and other complications. Planned Parenthood offices in Iowa have also used a “telemed” process that allows an off-site abortionist to provide instructions to the patient over a computer monitor. She then presses a button on the screen which opens a compartment that dispenses the drug, reducing it to a vending machine abortion. There is no medical exam, much less an ultrasound or a two-week follow-up visit. Despite minimal doctor-patient interaction in this process, Planned Parenthood is apparently charging the insurance company more than twice the price of a surgical abortion.10

This lax approach to safe practices is the predictable result of the politically motivated and flawed FDA approval process in which the safety of women was sacrificed for the pro-abortion and population control agenda of its proponents.

Synthesized in 1980 by chemist Georges Teutsch, mifepristone (RU 486) was owned by French pharmaceutical company Roussel-Uclaf. The German firm Hoechst owned majority shares in Roussel-Uclaf and traced its history to I.G. Farben, who manufactured Zyklon-B, the “human pesticide” used in the gas chambers of Auschwitz. With RU 486’s toxic effect on unborn babies drawing an eerie parallel to this regrettable history, both Hoechst and Roussel-Uclaf were extremely reluctant to apply for FDA approval or enter the US market with a controversial abortion pill that could trigger boycotts and product liability litigation.11

Enter the Clinton Administration. Heavily supported by pro-abortion advocates, Clinton overturned the ban on RU 486 in 1993, and was determined to fast-track its FDA approval. In 1994, with Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala strongly encouraging a licensing agreement, Roussel-Uclaf granted all of the pill’s patent rights and technology to the Population Council, a pro-abortion non-profit organization that conducts research on “reproductive health issues.”12

The Population Council created Danco Laboratories to market RU 486 in the US, but was unsuccessful in finding a US company willing to manufacture it. The best they could find was a Chinese manufacturing company, Shanghai Hualian, which had a history of violating US regulations and has since been found to be manufacturing tainted leukemia drugs.13 The company is a division of Shanghai Pharmaceutical Company, which is owned by the Chinese Communist government.

Since a manufacturing process was essential for FDA approval, any concerns about Shanghai Hualian were apparently swept under the rug in order to get this drug approved. This was one of many questionable decisions by the FDA.14 It waived its own requirements for unbiased clinical trials and eventually approved the drug under a “Subpart H” process for accelerated approval that is usually reserved for drugs meant to treat “severe or life-threatening illnesses.” Clearly, pregnancy is not an illness, and for the FDA to treat it as one illustrates how the twisted logic of abortion advocates has been used to distort the most natural, nurturing, life-sustaining process that exists on this earth.

Safety directives used in the clinical trials and in other countries, such as requiring an ultrasound to verify the age and location of the pregnancy, were dropped or watered down in the final FDA protocol. The “pediatric rule,” was waived, allowing teenagers to receive RU 486 even though the drug was never tested on adolescents. Since RU 486 by itself was not effective in completing an abortion, the FDA ordered use of the second drug, misoprostol, thereby mandating an unapproved “off-label” use of the drug. Searle Laboratories, the manufacturer of this ulcer medication, warned abortionists not to use it. As seen in the news stories above, misoprostol now appears to be the drug of choice for forcing chemical abortions on women without their knowledge.

Taken all together, it has become clear that RU 486 should be removed from the marketplace. The approval shortcuts, the ineffective protocol and the non-existent reporting requirements have allowed a drug regimen that at its best kills babies very effectively. At worst, it kills the mother or allows a third party to kill her baby without her permission or knowledge. Does this sound like a victory for women?


1 US FDA Drug, Mifeprex (mifepristone) Information, accessed at: http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DrugSafety/
PostmarketDrugSafetyInformationforPatientsandProviders/ucm111323.htm

2 Unless otherwise noted, all news stories can be found by searching LifeNews.com at: www.LifeNews.com

3 Accessed at: http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/printerfriendly.html?articleid=10040816

4 The Elliot Institute, Forced Abortions in America, A Special Report, accessed at: http://www.theunchoice.com/pdf/FactSheets/ForcedAbortions.pdf

5 Ibid., p. 2.

6 US FDA News & Events, Mifepristone: Approval Process and Postmarketing Activities, May 17, 2006, p. 3. Accessed at: http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Testimony/ucm112562.htm

7 O’Bannon, Dr. Randy, Study: 20 Percent of Women Using Abortion Drug Face Medical Complications, LifeNews.com, Nov. 11, 2009. Accessed at: http://www.lifenews.com/int1377.html

8 Ertelt, Steven, Pro-Life Groups Renew Call to Pull Abortion Drug RU 486, Despite FDA Meeting, LifeNews.com, May 17, 2006. Accessed at: http://www.lifenews.com/nat2277.html

9 Willke, J.C., RU 486 Has Killed Thirteen Women, Life Issues Institute, July 2008. Accessed at: http://www.lifeissues.org/ru486/deaths.htm

10 Ertelt, Steven, Pro-Life Group Files Complaint in Iowa Against Telemed Abortion Drug Process, LifeNews.com, April 8, 2010. Accessed at: http://www.lifenews.com/state4977.html

11 Hogan, Julie A., The Life of the Abortion Pill in the United States, Harvard Law School, March 2000. Accessed at: http://leda.law.harvard.edu/leda/data/247/Hogan,_Julie.html

12 Judicial Watch, Inc., The Clinton RU-486 Files, April 2006.


13 Hoffman, Matthew C., Manufacturer of RU-486 Paralyzes Patients with Tainted Drug, LifeSiteNews.com, January 31, 2008. Accessed at: http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/jan/08013105.html

14 Wright, Wendy, RU-486: Killer Pills, September 10, 2002. Accessed at: http://www.cwfa.org/articledisplay.asp?id=1561&department=CWA&categoryid=life

Abortion - It Issn't About Choice or Women

More evidence is showing up to prove that the abortion industry claims that its a woman's choice & its about her health is just a cover for them. For the industry it is all about making money. The evidence gathered by Live Action, what is coming out about Hodari & others is just the tip of the iceberg. Abortion clinics cover up crimes now. & that is why you see them opposed to laws like the 1 in Nebraska that requires clinics to screen for coercion or force. They should already be doing this sort of screening.

It also requires them to screen for risk factors that put women at risk for psychological problems after abortions. & this is another big no-no for the abortion industry, admiting abortion does do emotional/psychological harm to women (men as well). Despite the mounting evidence from research & groups like Silent No More the abortion industry denies that abortion is any more psychological damaging that clipping a toenail.

The abortion industry fights even giving out the basic info about risks that are required of any other major surgery. if they truly cared about the women they would want the women to know. & here is where they really show their hypocricy. These same people who deny that abortion does emotional damage say that giving them this info just causes more emotional stress in an already stressful time. Like an abortion is more stressful than cancer surgery?

The abortion industry is just that, an industry. & 1 that only cares about the bottom line. But not only that, it makes its profit at the expense of other people's lives. Greed, 1 of the 7 deadly sins, at its worst. Greed, going after mammon, a false god, demonic in origin. Just like the rest of the culture of death.

Forced abortions - the sad truth

An Illinois-based pro-life group says lost in the politics of the abortion debate is the surprising evidence that most -- not some -- abortions are unwanted or coerced, and many are forced.

The Elliot Institute has updated a study on forced abortion in America. One aspect of the study focuses on the risks that women and girls often face when they refuse to have an abortion. Amy Sobie with the Elliot Institute says updated information confirms a previous conclusion that the number-one cause of death among pregnant women is homicide.

"We believe from the research and from anecdotal evidence that a lot of abortions, probably the majority of abortions in the United States, are unwanted or coerced in one way or another," she shares. "That could be from pregnancy discrimination [or] that could be from pressure. One study shows that 64 percent of women having abortions in the U.S. reported feeling pressured by others."

Pregnancy discrimination, says Sobie, involves employers who push an employee to have an abortion -- and she adds that such complaints are on the rise. She believes states are doing a poor job in screening abortion seekers for pressure factors.

"The state of Nebraska recently became the first state to actually pass a bill that would hold abortion clinics liable," says the pro-lifer. "Basically it allows for lawsuits when [clinics] fail to screen for coercion or force, and when they fail to screen for risk factors that put women at risk for psychological problems after abortions."

Sobie contends all abortion clinics ought to be screening the women for risk factors anyway. She emphasizes that lawmakers in the various states ought to require it, mimicking the legislation Nebraska passed.

Hodari Admits Forcing Abortion

The other day I put up a post about Dr. Hodari & his idea of a "safe abortion" as well as his opinion of a woman's right to chose. (This Is What Abortionists Mean By Choice) The question I have as I read his track record is why wasn't he shut down long before he put everything up for sale. The Michigan Board of Medicine has clearly failied in its duty as well. I suspect the reason is simple, the huge majority on the Board, or at least its disciplinary committee, ar pro-abortion & like has been seen time & time again, willing to cover the truth to protect the industry rather than the patients as it should.

Michigan Abortionist Admits to Forcing Client into Abortion

By Peter J. Smith

FLINT, Michigan, May 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Michigan abortionist Abraham Alberto Hodari has admitted to having an assistant forcibly restrain a woman who changed her mind about having an abortion, claiming he had already begun the procedure and wanted to guarantee a "safe abortion."

Local station NBC 25, which has determinedly pursued this story of forced abortion at Hodari's Flint's Feminine Health Care Clinic, reports that 20-year-old Caitlin Bruce wanted to keep her child after seeing its ultrasound image.

Bruce said that Hodari was in the midst of inserting a speculum, a medical tool used for the dilation and examination of the vagina and cervix, when she pleaded with him to stop the abortion.

"I just told him stop please," she told the news station. "I'm really nervous and I don't want to do this anymore."

Hodari insisted to NBC 25 that it was "too late" for him to stop. The abortionist, who was vacationing in Italy at the time of the interview, told the station that "there was blood and tissue on [his instruments] from pregnancy." He thought Bruce would have suffered complications, such as infection or severe bleeding, if he had listened to her.

However, the trustworthiness of the Michigan abortionist has been called into question by comments he made at Wayne University in 2007, where he told medical students that doctors have a license to "lie" to their patients.

Flint obstetrician and gynecologist Dr. Mona Hardas, M.D., found Hodari's medical ethics abhorrent. She told NBC 25 that Hodari had an obligation to stop the abortion, and could have had Bruce transported to the emergency room for a second opinion as to whether the fetus could be saved.

"I am shocked," Hardas said. "I can't believe this is still happening in this day and age."

Hodari faces civil charges over the alleged forced abortion. Although Bruce filed a police report, the Genesee County prosecutor has yet to press criminal charges against the abortionist.

Bruce's story aligns with testimonies from other women who have described similar horror stories of coerced abortions at Hodari's hands. A report by Operation Rescue shows Hodari has a record of 49 documented lawsuits over a span of decades.

The history of Hodari's abortion practice also does not fit in with the story he told NBC 25 that he provides women "safe abortions." The abortionist has been implicated in the deaths of at least four women from abortion-related complications. In June 2009, the Disciplinary Subcommittee of Michigan's Board of Medicine fined Hodari $10,000 for negligence in connection with the botched abortion death of Regina Johnson.

Numerous complaints have been filed against the abortionist for improper disposal of human remains and abortion records found in Hodari's dumpster. Hodari received a sentence of six months' probation on one such count in February.

In November, Hodari put his abortion clinics on the market along with his collection of expensive classic cars and hastily filed for divorce from his wife of 29 years. Local activists told Operation Rescue that it appeared that he was attempting to liquidate his assets so he could flee the country, possibly to his former home in Argentina.


See related coverage by LifeSiteNews.com:

Abortionist under Investigation for Forced Abortion Says he "Lies" to Patient
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/may/10052508.html

Abortionist Hodari Officially Under Investigation for Forced Abortions
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/feb/10020106.html

Alleged Forced Abortion Victim Says Abortionist "Ripped the Life" Out of Her
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/nov/09112412.html

Forced Abortion, Rape Victim Comes Forward After Abortionist Given Slap on the Wrist
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/feb/09021102.html

This Is What Abortionists Mean By Choice

IMHO Hodari is a prime example of the sick & twisted "culture of death" mentality that makes up the abortion industry. He is just out to make a buck, he tries to pass the blame when caught, & he knows that most of the time he doesn't have to worry as he has supporters in the regulators & investigators.

Abortionist under Investigation for Forced Abortion Says he “Lies” to Patients

By Peter J. Smith
DETROIT, Michigan, May 25, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Michigan abortionist is under renewed scrutiny over comments he made over two years ago, in which he said that doctors have a license to “lie” to their patients.
The comments were made by Dr. Abraham Alberto Hodari to medical students at Wayne University. Hodari currently is facing a lawsuit for allegedly forcing a woman to submit to an abortion after she had changed her mind, killing the unborn baby that she had decided she wanted.
“My wife says we doctors have a license to lie, and it’s true, it’s absolutely true. Sometimes you need to lie to a patient about things that they want to do or no,” Hodari told a gathering at Wayne State University on November 9, 2007.
He said it was not so much the case today, saying that the reason is that women “are more educated, between CNN and the internet, the patients are more educated about what we do.”
He then added, “I have great satisfaction about what I do, and I never feel bad or worried about doing abortions.”
Hodari’s remarks have only added more ammunition to the lawsuit pending against him in Genessee County Circuit Court.
NBC25 reported on the comments and asked for an explanation from the abortionist. Hodari claimed that he was only referring to situations where the woman’s life would be in danger, and said that a doctor must “never” tell a patient “you’re going to die.”
“And in that respect, yes, we lie,” insisted Hodari.
However, the context of Hodari’s remarks, in which he mentioned how proud he was to be an abortionist, had nothing to do with telling women that they were dying.
Caitlin Bruce is one ex-client of Hodari, who claims he did exactly to her what he told the Wayne medical students: lied to her, and forced her to abort a baby she wanted. Bruce that Hodari and his assistant forcibly held her down to the operating table and "ripped the life out of me that day."
Bruce’s alleged forced abortion happened at Hodari’s Flint abortion center, the Feminine Health Care Clinic.
Tom R. Pabst, Bruce’s attorney, told NBC25 that Hodari violated Bruce’s right to back out of a medical procedure and the video will serve as evidence against him.
"Whether it's a sexual advance or a medical procedure, if she says, ‘No, stop,’ that's the end of it," Pabst told the local news station.
"What he’s saying is that he knows what’s better for your body than you do, and he’s going to go ahead and do what he thinks is best for a woman’s body, not the woman. To me he’s got it flipped."
Bruce's story aligns with testimonies from other women who have described similar horror stories of coerced abortions at Hodari's hands. A report by Operation Rescue shows Hodari has a record of 49 documented lawsuits over a span of decades.
Hodari's practice has also been implicated in the deaths of at least four women from abortion-related complications. In June 2009, the Disciplinary Subcommittee of Michigan's Board of Medicine fined Hodari $10,000 for negligence in connection with the botched abortion death of Regina Johnson.
Numerous complaints have been filed against the abortionist for improper disposal of human remains and abortion records found in Hodari's dumpster. Hodari received a sentence of six months' probation on one such count in February.
In November, Hodari put his abortion clinics on the market along with his collection of expensive classic cars and hastily filed for divorce from his wife of 29 years. Local activists told Operation Rescue that it appeared that he was attempting to liquidate his assets so he could flee the country, possibly to his former home in Argentina.
See related coverage by LifeSiteNews.com:
Abortionist Hodari Officially Under Investigation for Forced Abortions
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/feb/10020106.html
Alleged Forced Abortion Victim Says Abortionist "Ripped the Life" Out of Her
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/nov/09112412.html
Forced Abortion, Rape Victim Comes Forward After Abortionist Given Slap on the Wrist
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/feb/09021102.html



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Guess Which 1 the ACLU is Opposed To?

A few months ago Baltimore passed an ordinance that requires pro-life pregnancy centers to post on their doors that they do not offer or refer for abortions or birth control services. It also requires a $150 per day fine for failing to post the signs

Now, overwhelming majorities in both houses of the Tennessee General Assembly have passed a law requiring abortionists to post signs in their clinics informing women that it is against the law for anyone to coerce them into having an abortion. The law also applies stiff penalties to abortion facilities that fail to post the signs.

So guess which 1 the ACLU opposes claiming " it demonizes certain health care providers; and it patronizes women by implying that they are incapable of making their own medical decisions regarding what is best for themselves and their families."? If you said the Tenn law you are right. & that is because the ACLU is pro-abortion & against pro-life pregnancy centers that provide alternatives. In fact here is how the Maryland ACLU describes those crisis centers in explaining why they should get no state funding: "Crisis Pregnancy Centers that solely promote a religious doctrine, and use false and misleading information to deter women from exploring all reproductive options to an unintended pregnancy, including programs like 'Real Alternatives.'”

So the ACLU's double standard is exposed. It is OK for them to demonize crisis pregnancy centers that tell the truth about abortion & provide real alternatives. These places must have signs because women are easily mislead. But any law that requires abortion clinics to tell the truth about abortion is patronizing to women. Which is it ACLU? Are women easily mislead or are they capable of making up their own minds without having to have all the info presented to them?

If it is so important that the crisis pregnancy centers fully inform the women who enter their buildings then why does the abortion industry oppose the same standard for them? Maybe because despite their mocking claims to the contrary, it is the abortion clinics that are doing the misleading, that are coercing women into abortions, that are covering up rape & incest & are killing unborn children. Pro-aborts deny proof after proof of the link between abortion & breast cancer, the reality of post-abortion syndrome, & the reality of the unborn child to feel pain. & of course they hate the requirement that abortion clinics do an ultrasound because of the fact that when a woman sees that ultrasound, 80-92% of the women opt to not kill the child. Many of the required actions are no different than those for other sugical proceedures. Yet, the pro-aborts are OK with women being fully informed about these other proceedures. So why is it patronizing to women to require the same when it comes to abortion? Why don't those laws treat women as incapable if similar requirements about an abortion do? It is simple, pro aborts want women to be uniformed & ignorant about the facts when it comes to killing their unborn child, then ignorance is bliss, & highly profitable, for the abortionists.

Read more: Tennessee Legislature: Abortionists Must Warn Clients against Coerced Abortion
Archdiocese Fights Baltimore Over City’s Pregnancy Center Restrictions
Abortion Sign Ordinance Prompts Archdiocese Lawsuit
ACLU: Not so silent partner to abortion industry

Why Should He Confront China Since He Agrees With Their Abortion Policy

I was reading an article on LifeSiteNews.com about Obama's trip to China & the call for President Obama to confront China about their coercive one-child policy.

1 line in particular stood out. This 1 by U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ): "Human rights are trivialized by China, and the United States has been sending a message that profits and money-making trumps human rights."

I know what Rep. Smith is refering to, keeping the flow of cheaply made goods flowing from China. However, I couldn't help but thinking that given how Obama is deep in the pockets of the abortion industry, that they trivialize the human rights of the unborn & esp that they believe "profits and money-making trumps human rights" of the unborn as well as the women that have the abortions, he doesn't have any moral authority to tell China they are wrong.

& above that, why should he since he supports the abortion industry in their doing the same thing.

Another line in the article was this: "The body of the baby was thrown into a trashcan." While the context was that of a woman talking about her forced abortion, it is different from what goes on innumerable times every day at abortion clinics here in the USA how? Esp since many of those women here in the USA are coerced into those abortions by the father of the baby or another family member.

& finally, given that Obama is the Socialist-in-chief here, why should he criticize he fellow travellers?

Source: Human Rights Panel Urges Obama to Confront China's Forced Abortion Policy

It Isn't about Defending Women - It's About Preserving the Sacrament of Abortion

Activists Reveal Rigidity by Fighting Coerced Abortion Ban

By Colleen Carroll Campbell

Posted: Friday, February 27, 2009

ARTICLE

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Publication Date: February 26, 2009

Abortion-rights activists frequently accuse their pro-life adversaries of simplistic thinking and ideological rigidity. That charge made more sense 30 years ago, when proponents of legalized abortion brazenly claimed the mantle of defending women while opponents of abortion focused their rhetoric on the rights of the unborn. But that allegation has not aged well. And it is taking a particular beating right now in Missouri, as the state Legislature debates the merits of a proposed ban on coerced abortions.

In one corner of this legislative fight are the supposed anti-choice simpletons: legislators like Rep. Cynthia Davis and Rep. Bryan Pratt, the sponsors of House Bills 46 and 434, and Sen. Rob Mayer, sponsor of the corresponding Senate Bill 264. Their legislation would make it a crime for anyone to knowingly coerce a woman into aborting her child by performing criminal acts against her or her family, assaulting or stalking her, attempting or threatening to harm her baby against her will or without her knowledge, firing or threatening to fire her for failing to abort her baby or revoking or threatening to revoke her scholarship for that reason. The legislation also strengthens informed consent for a pregnant woman by mandating that she be offered an opportunity view an ultrasound of her baby before an abortion and requiring that she receive more complete information about alternatives to abortion.

For an abortion-rights movement predicated on giving women choices, this legislation would seem to be too innocuous to fight. After all, who wants to see a woman make a life-or-death decision for her unborn child without adequate information, only to lament later -- as do the growing ranks of women in the Silent No More Awareness Campaign -- that she did not truly understand what she was choosing? Who wants to deprive a pregnant woman of access to as much information as possible so she can make her decision from a position of strength, knowledge and freedom rather than desperation and ignorance? And does anyone want to defend the right of abusive or manipulative boyfriends, husbands, parents, employers and coaches to bully a woman into aborting her child because her pregnancy inconveniences them?

Odious as this last prospect sounds, it is apparently not repellant enough to deter Missouri's abortion lobby from battling even this modest pro-life legislation. Blasting it as alternately redundant and radical, unnecessary and insulting, the state's so-called defenders of choice are laboring to kill this choice-expanding bill.

As these abortion apologists see it, a woman need not be asked to clarify her consent before undergoing an abortion because she already has become the very model of self-determination simply by walking through the clinic door. The possibility that she might have a boyfriend waiting in the car outside who has promised to punish her if she fails to "fix" her problem, or parents who hounded her all the way to the clinic and prevented her from reaching out to a crisis pregnancy center for help in keeping her baby, does not worry them nearly as much as the possibility that a woman who wants an abortion will be irritated by an offer that she see her baby on a sonogram or get an unwanted update on his development before she aborts him.

Such priorities may seem out of whack, but they hardly are surprising for a movement that has been known to extol the medical virtues of partial-birth abortion and denounce legislation outlawing infanticide. The opposition of abortion-rights zealots to a ban on coerced abortions is yet another sad consequence of their ideological rigidity -- the very simplistic thinking and refusal to acknowledge reality that they ascribe to their opponents but exemplify in themselves.

-- Colleen Carroll Campbell is an author, television and radio host and St. Louis-based fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. Her website is www.colleen-campbell.com.

This Is What They Mean By Safe & Rare?????

While many of the recent horror stories relating to abortion clinics have been about Planned Parenthood, they aren't the only clinics that have been making the news with lawbreaking & unethical practices. Stories about Tiller's Women's Health Care Services, run by Dr. George R. Tiller in Wichita, Kansas, have been surfacing. This is the result of efforts by Operation Rescue to bring them to light.

You might remember the ongoing saga of the attempts to bring Tiller & his clinic to justice. Various coverups involving elected & regulatory officials in Kansas have come to light. A grand jury is currently investigating the clinic & Tiller.

According to a LifeSite News story the experiences that women have been sharing include:

" - An abortion on a 14-year old girl who did not understand what was happening to her. Her traumatic abortion resulted in drug abuse and suicidal thoughts.

- An unwanted abortion on a 17-year old whose abusive parents forced her to abort. The girl was drugged into submission and her pleas for help ignored by clinic staff.

- A forced abortion on a 19-year old whose last word before succumbing to the anesthesia was, "Nooooo!"

- A step-mom who coerced a young girl into an unwanted abortion contrary to the wishes of her rightful parent, resulting in a disturbing personality change in her daughter.

- An abortion done on a woman in her 25th week of pregnancy whose medical records show that the abortion was not medically necessary, in violation of Kansas Law.- A botched abortion that resulted in years of gynecological problems."

Operation Rescue Senior Policy Advisor Cheryl Sullenger had the following to say about the investigation & the political coverup: "These are heart-breaking stories for which we hold Governor Kathleen Sebelius personally responsible. The governor has appointed people to all the state's enforcement institutions that continue to turn a blind eye to lawbreaking and unethical behavior on the part of the abortion cartel. She is at the heart of the abortion corruption scandal in Kansas that has already cost the jobs of an attorney general and two top members of the Kansas State Board of Healing Arts. Unfortunately, that is just the tip of the iceberg.

Gov. Sebelius is using her appointees in the Kansas State Board of Healing Arts, the Kansas Department of Health, the Attorney General's office, and perhaps even the Kansas Supreme Court to cover up for Tiller's wrongdoing. This is costing innocent lives that laws have been enacted to protect, as well as untold human misery in the lives of vulnerable young girls who do not have the will to resist the tremendous pressures to abort. We can no longer ignore these tragedies. We again urge the legislature to conduct an investigation into this abortion corruption scandal."

Source: Women Tell Of Coerced, Illegal Abortions At Kansas Abortion Clinic

I will admit that every business as well as politics has its share of corruption & crime. But what is devient elsewhere seems to be the norm when it comes to abortion clinics. These places seem to thrive on criminal cover-ups.

Unfortunately, the cover-up in Kansas isn't getting the Main Stream Media coverage any more than the Planned Parenthood scandals are. But the truth will out. God is bringing it to light. & these criminals will pay for the evil they have done. As more & more of the truth gets out, more people will start to question the very premises of legalized abortion & see it as the evil it really is. & 1 day the resulting outcry will be enough that abortion will again be outlawed for the evil that it is.