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Planned Parenthood Unmasked

Planned Parenthood is the largest purveyor of abortions in America. Yet this “non-profit” business reaps more than $350 million from federal taxpayers every year, masquerading as a provider of essential “health” services.

The U.S. House on February 19 voted 240 to 185 to bar Planned Parenthood Federation of America and every one of its affiliates – enumerated in the amendment – from receiving tax dollars from the federal government during the balance of this fiscal year.

The decisive vote came in the midst of stunning revelations about Planned Parenthood’s actual practices – some affiliates overbilling taxpayers through such means as unconscionable markups in the cost of contraceptives, intake workers at one facility after another coaching minors in lying about their age to avoid notifying parents (in states whose laws require such notice) or to avoid reporting statutory rape to child protection authorities (required in every state), “clinic counselors” even advising a man posing as a human trafficking pimp in how he could use the Planned Parenthood facility to keep his victims working in the sex trade.

The Stupak Stumble

Classic Greek tragedies were organized always around a “fatal flaw” in the leading character, and that flaw was almost always “hubris,” overweening pride, causing the protagonist to fall victim of himself.

The Bible warns about the same character flaw. Here it is in Proverbs: The oft-quoted and universally true Prov. 16: 18 – “Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.” Several other Biblical Proverbs reflect the same warning, as do verses in other books of the Holy Scripture.

Though many observers have speculated – most of them after the fact – that Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI) had intended all along to betray the pro-life cause for which he has been known, his behavior and demeanor do not strike us as that of a clever deceiver. And his years as co-chairman of the House Pro-Life Caucus do not lead us to conclude that he meant all along to deliver America’s unborn children into the clutches of Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama.

Obama and the Bureaucratization of Health Care

The president's proposals would give unelected officials life-and-death rationing powers.

By Sarah Palin

Writing in the New York Times last month, President Barack Obama asked that Americans "talk with one another, and not over one another" as our health-care debate moves forward.

I couldn't agree more. Let's engage the other side's arguments, and let's allow Americans to decide for themselves whether the Democrats' health-care proposals should become governing law.

Some 45 years ago Ronald Reagan said that "no one in this country should be denied medical care because of a lack of funds." Each of us knows that we have an obligation to care for the old, the young and the sick. We stand strongest when we stand with the weakest among us

'Don't Ask / Don't Tell' Policy in Women's Healthcare Maims a Victim, Kills a Second

This eyewitness report was first posted on the Internet website www.SmallVictoriesUSA.com. The source is Angela Michael, a fearless and often harassed sidewalk counselor / abortion intervener at the notorious Hope [sic] Clinic [sic] in Granite City, Illinois, a town in the St. Louis Metro East area. Mrs. Michael and her husband have led vigils at the late-term abortuary (which was plaintiff in the suit against Illinois’s Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act) for many years. The reader will find a range of emotions in this passionate report, from deep frustration and righteous anger to tender compassion. The reader will find also the reality of slaughterhouse-grade conditions and practices at this hugely profitable, virtually unregulated magnet abortion mill. We reprint Mrs. Michael’s report with the hope of opening minds and reaching hearts with the urgent need to limit and soon, please, Lord, recriminalize abortion in America.

Nancy Pelosi, Population Controller

By Steven W. Mosher

Most of us understand that children are the only future a nation has. The Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, apparently does not.

In the name of fiscal austerity, she wants us to embark upon a population control program here at home to drive down the birth rate. How else can one understand her desire to add hundreds of millions of dollars of family planning spending to the stimulus package under discussion in the Congress?

Winning with Life = Speaking Clearly

Among the first targets of the incoming administration, most observers expect, is the policy handed down by Pres. Bush in August, 2001, disqualifying from federal funding any experiments sacrificing embryonic human beings.

It was seen at the time as a controversial policy, but it carefully followed an ethical standard and has served both the taxpayers and the legitimate research community well. Without the Bush policy, federally funded bioscientists would still be spinning wheels trying to find a sunbeam in a blizzard, chasing wild geese instead of developing actual therapies and cures through ethical adult stem cell research.

Mental Illness Risk 'rises 30% for Women Who Have Abortions'

By RACHEL ELLIS, UK Daily Mail, 30th November 2008

Women who have an abortion are three times more likely to develop a drug or alcohol addiction and 30 per cent more likely to have mental disorders compared with other women, research has revealed.

The evidence from two studies comes as the number of women having an abortion in England and Wales exceeded 200,000 for the first time last year.

Gov. Palin on "the Culture of Life"

Text of Oct. 11, 2008, remarks by Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, GOP Vice Presidential nominee, in Johnstown, Pennsylvania

… In this same spirit, as defenders of the culture of Life, John McCain and I believe in the goodness and potential of every innocent life. I believe the truest measure of any society is how it treats those who are least able to defend and speak for themselves. And who is more vulnerable or more innocent than a child?

When I learned that my son Trig would have special needs, I had to prepare my heart for the challenges to come. At first I was scared, and Todd and I had to ask for strength and understanding. But I can tell you a few things I’ve learned already.

The Palin Phenomenon

The Palin phenomenon – the immediate embrace of Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin by vast numbers of voters, energizing them into the 2008 political campaign – is not hard to grasp if one understands one essential truth about the American voter: People are hungry for authenticity.

In Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, they are seeing “the real deal,” a woman with such an open face, such a guileless demeanor that their usual skepticism is disarmed.