Priest Cancels Netflix Over ‘Hateful and Blasphemous’ Pro-Abortion Show

“Suffice it to say that abortion destroys the human life in the womb and the heart of the mother.”

By Dorothy Cummings McLean
Life Site News

He didn’t shoot his television, but he did the next best thing.

Father John Rapisarda of Baltimore’s Our Lady of Victory Catholic Church was so disgusted by Michelle Wolf’s “Salute to Abortion” in her weekly show The Break that he wrote to Netflix to explain why he was cancelling his subscription. He then posted his letter to Facebook, where it was shared over 600 times. The full text of his letter is below.

“There are many things wrong with this episode,” Rapisarda wrote. “However, it is clear, as the show is created and sponsored by Netflix, that listing them would do little to change hearts.”

“Suffice it to say that abortion destroys the human life in the womb and the heart of the mother.”

He observed that even many “pro-choice or pro-abortion” people would say that the fewer abortions there are the better, and that disregarding both them and pro-life people and declaring “God bless abortions” was “hateful and blasphemous.”

Rapisarda acknowledged that Wolf and her writers probably despise viewers like them but said that he hoped they might have a change of heart.

“Michelle Wolf and her Netflix writers will likely dismiss me and millions of others as unenlightened, all while claiming to be tolerant of others’ opinions, moral or otherwise,” he wrote. “Because of this, I pray that you have a change of heart, understand the damage done by abortion, and repent of your actions.”

The priest indicated that until they changed their content, he would encourage others to cancel their own Netflix subscriptions.

Aired on July 8, Wolf’s pro-abortion monologue hailed abortion as a “good and important” woman’s right. She accused pro-lifers of wanting to control women, a common trope despite the prevalence of female pro-life leaders and polling that finds no significant gender gap between men and women in their attitudes towards abortion.

Between vulgar and ghoulish jokes, in which even back-alley abortions were held up for laughs, Wolf recited a number of common pro-abortion talking points, without citing evidence to substantiate them.

“Some people say abortion is killing a baby,” she said, gesturing quotation marks around the phrase. “It’s not. It’s stopping a baby from happening. It’s like ‘Back to the Future’ and abortion is the DeLorean,” the time-traveling car from the 1980s sci-fi film.

“And everyone loves DeLoreans!” she exclaimed.

In fact, long-settled biological criteria establishes that a whole, distinct, living human exists once fertilization has occurred, as confirmed in mainstream medical and science textbooks and admitted by several pro-abortion philosophers.

Wolf concluded the segment with a “salute to abortion,” in which she donned a star-spangled majorette’s costume, was flanked by a drum corps, and threw confetti while making declarations like “Abortion, I salute you!” and “If you want an abortion, get one!” Her closing line was, “God bless abortions, and God bless America!” 

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Trump Admin Creates Religious Liberty Task Force to Protect Pro-Life Christians

By Steven Ertelt
Life News

The Trump administration has created a Religious Liberty Task Force, led by pro-life Attorney General Jeff Sessions, in order to protect and promote religious liberty.

The new task force is important for pro-life Americas as it will work to protect the conscience rights of medical professionals who don’t want to be forced to promote or perform abortions. Pro-life groups have also faced discrimination because of their Christian views and pastors have been unable to fully engage pro-life election issues in the pulpit for fear of reprisal from the government.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions said, “A dangerous movement, undetected by many, is now challenging and eroding our great tradition of religious freedom. There can be no doubt. This is no little matter. It must be confronted and defeated. This election, and much that has flowed from it, gives us a rare opportunity to arrest these trends. Such a reversal will not just be done with electoral victories, but by intellectual victories.”

“We have gotten to the point where courts have held that morality cannot be a basis for law; where ministers are fearful to affirm, as they understand it, holy writ from the pulpit; and where one group can actively target religious groups by labeling them a “hate group” on the basis of their sincerely held religious beliefs,” he added.

Leading pro-life advocates applauded the creation of the Religious Liberty Task Force.

Liberty Counsel’s Founder and Chairman Mat Staver said, 

“The establishment of a Religious Liberty Task Force is an historic and positive step by the Trump administration to protect religious freedom and the rights of conscience. Today’s announcement by the Department of Justice is encouraging, and the Trump administration is to be commended for making this 180-degree turn from the past administration which used the federal government to violate religious freedom and conscience rather than protecting our first freedom. This task force sends a strong message that there is a commitment to protecting religious freedom.”

Sessions added: 

“This President and this Department of Justice are determined to protect and even advance this magnificent heritage. Freedom of religious is indeed our “first freedom”—being the first listed right of our First Amendment. This has been a core American principle from the beginning. It is one of the reasons that this country was settled in the first place.”

“But in recent years, the cultural climate in this country—and in the West more generally—has become less hospitable to people of faith. Many Americans have felt that their freedom to practice their faith has been under attack. And it’s easy to see why. We’ve seen nuns ordered to buy contraceptives,” he added.

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BreakPoint: About Those Frozen Embryos

Unintended Consequences and the Limits of Personal Freedom

by: John Stonestreet & Roberto Rivera
BreakPoint

Frozen embryos aren’t the only “byproducts” of advanced reproductive technology: moral and legal confusions are as well.

Divorce is a brutal experience, especially for children. For many, it’s a traumatic experience from which they never fully recover. Today, given the incredible strides made in artificial reproductive technologies, there’s an entire class of children on the other side of the birth canal whose post-divorce fate is almost never given even a moment’s thought: frozen embryos.

By some estimates, there are nearly a million frozen embryos in the U. S. That’s as many people as live in San Jose, California.

Embryos are the intended byproduct of our reproductive technologies, most notably in-vitro fertilization. But unlike other “byproducts,” there’s no moral or even biological difference between those frozen and those eventually born. If you implant them in a woman’s womb and let nature takes its course, approximately 37 weeks later, the result is what is undeniably a human being.

We insist on ignoring this reality. But every once in a while, events conspire that force us to look reality in the face.


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PRO-LIFE WALKERS MAKE IT TO PA FROM THE WEST COAST

from Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation


Young people with Crossroads Pro-Life Walks will be trekking across Pennsylvania soon. During a stop in Lancaster, local pro-lifers are hosting summer walkers at St. Leo the Great Church on Wednesday, August 1 st at 7:00 p.m. and again at 6:30 a.m. on Thursday, August 2 nd before they move on. Pro-lifers are invited to meet them and offer support. For more information, contact Tom Ramsbottom, the Lancaster Event Coordinator, at 717-468-3822.

Crossroads Pro-Life Walks was founded in 1995 to respond to Pope St. John Paul II's call to the youth of the world to take an active role in the pro-life movement in order to reestablish a culture of life. These young people are converting the hearts and minds of others by witnessing to the dignity and sanctity of all human life, from conception to natural death.

This summer, young adults are conducting three simultaneous pro-life walks across America from Seattle, San Francisco, and Los Angeles to Washington, D.C.. Walkers who started in Seattle will be passing through these Pennsylvania towns and cities: Franklin, July 25th; Curwensville, July 26th; Sunbury, July 3; Lancaster, August 1st -2nd; and Philadelphia, August 4th -5th. Walkers who started in San Francisco will pass through Washington (PA), July 30th and Uniontown, July 31st . 

To learn more about Crossroads , visit https://www.crossroadswalk.org/

 

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Abortion is Legal -- is Infanticide Next?

from Martin Fox, President
National Pro-Life Alliance


Ever since Roe v. Wade legalized abortion-on-demand in 1973, 61 million babies have been sentenced to brutal deaths.

Yet according to so-called medical ethicists Giubilini and Minerva . . . Roe v. Wade’s policy of abortion-on-demand isn’t nearly extreme enough.

They are not satisfied for abortionists to merely end babies’ lives through all nine months of pregnancy . . .

. . . they want abortionists to end babies’ lives AFTER birth as well.

And although they readily admit that both born and unborn babies “certainly are humans,” they still advocate for a mother’s so-called “choice” to end those humans’ lives, before and after birth, claiming that newborns place a “financial, psychological, or social” burden on mothers.

In fact, Giubilini and Minerva credit Roe v. Wade as the inspiration behind their cruel philosophy, writing:

"The same arguments that apply to killing a human fetus can also be consistently applied to killing a newborn human."

"When circumstances occur after birth such that they would have justified abortion, what we call after-birth abortion should be permissible."

But born or unborn, killing babies is wrong.

 

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Elderly Woman Resisted Being Euthanized When She Saw the Needle, So Her Family Held Her Down

By SPUC, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Life News

A Dutch doctor who was rebuked for killing an elderly dementia patient without consent and in a traumatic manner has been given a formal reprimand by the Dutch medical complaints board, and may now face criminal charges.
Worldwide horror

The case involved a woman in her seventies, who was placed in a care home after her dementia became so advanced that her husband could no longer cope with care at home. She was distressed and frightened, and after a few weeks, the doctor at the home determined that she was suffering unbearably. He concluded that she was not mentally competent, but that an earlier statement in her will that she wanted euthanasia “when I myself find it the right time”; justified killing her.

The story was greeted with horror around the world, as it emerged that the doctor drugged the victim’s coffee, and had her family hold her down as she tried to fight off the lethal injection. Despite the woman not being mentally competent to consent to being killed, a review panel cleared the doctor of all charges.

No consent given

Now, the Dutch medical complaints board has formally reprimanded the unnamed doctor -the first case in which a practitioner has been formally censured since the Netherlands made it legal for doctors to kill patients at their request in 2002.

The board said that the woman’s will was contradictory, and that although she said she wanted to die on some days, on others she did not. She had written an ‘advance directive’ asking to be killed if her dementia became too severe, but whenever the issue of asking to die was raised, she also added: “Not now, it’s not so bad yet”. The board found that the doctor should have discussed the fact that a sedative was put in her coffee – which did not happen – and only carried out euthanasia if she agreed.

Criminal charges

The chief public prosecutor at The Hague is investigating whether there are grounds for criminal charges to be laid against the doctor, with an announcement expected after the summer.

Even a euthanasia advocate who was involved in a historic case at the Supreme Court that helped set the legal conditions for the procedure in the Netherlands condemned the killing of the woman. ‘This case is appalling,’ said Dr Boudewijn Chabot, adding that the euthanasia of the Alzheimer’s patient “goes beyond the law as we understand it.”

Slippery slope

In March, the Dutch Public Prosecution Service announced that it has begun investigations into four cases of euthanasia, including one of a woman with Alzheimer’s who was killed without consent. The dangers of legalized euthanasia to the vulnerable have also been highlighted in Belgium. It emerged this week that three children, one only nine years old, have had their lives ended by doctors since the euthanasia of minors was legalized in 2016.

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'Trigger Laws' in Place for Possible Reversal of Roe v. Wade

By Chris Woodward
One News Now

There's been a lot of talk as to whether the U.S. Supreme Court will overturn Roe v. Wade – but some argue it's already been reversed in many ways.

"Roe v. Wade is an almost 50-year-old decision," notes Dr. Jameson Taylor of the Mississippi Center for Public Policy.

"It's based on old science, and the Court has almost entirely abandoned that framework that's been set up by Roe and signaled to states that they can regulate abortion in a limited way to protect the life of the unborn child and to protect maternal health."

However, overturning Roe would not make abortion illegal, Taylor adds. "What it would do is allow the states to have their own choices about abortion policy," he explains.

Dr. Taylor

At least four states – Mississippi, Louisiana, North Dakota, and South Dakota – have what are known as "trigger laws" that would go into effect automatically in the event SCOTUS overturned its landmark 1973 decision. 

In that case, says Taylor, "these laws mean that abortion would become illegal in these states."Regardless, Taylor thinks intellectual and scientific honesty demands a reconsideration of Roe.

"3D and 4D ultrasounds are showing women that their unborn child is not just a blob of tissue, but a living thing with a beating heart, and that the child can sense light, move, hear, and taste," he continues.

 "Whatever you want to call it, this entity has the form of a human person – and that is something that the Supreme Court has already observed [by] inviting states to regulate abortion in ways to protect maternal health."

Of course, all this hinges on who replaces the late Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. President Trump recently nominated Brett Kavanaugh of the DC Circuit Court of Appeals to fill that slot – but liberal senators have vowed to block that nomination out of concern that Kavanaugh might rule against abortion in a future case.

Meanwhile, conservatives and special-interest groups have raised concerns about where exactly Kavanaugh stands on abortion, based on past opinions and answers he's provided when asked.

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Finally! Bayer Backs Down!

Bayer to Stop Selling Controversial Sterilization Device Following Mounting Lawsuits and Complaints

PRI Celebrates Victory for Women’s Health

by Jonathan Abbamonte
Population Research Institute

After years of litigation and sustained pressure from thousands of women who have reported injuries and other adverse side effects from the Essure sterilization coil, Bayer, the device’s manufacturer, has announced that it will discontinue selling Essure in the United States by the end of the year.

In a press release last Friday, Bayer announced that it would cease selling or distributing Essure after December 31st. Bayer also notified the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday of its decision to withdraw the device.

Since Essure was first approved by the FDA in 2002, the FDA has received nearly 27,000 adverse events reports associated with the device including reports of persistent abdominal pain, severe allergic and autoimmune reactions, bleeding, bloating, hair loss, headaches, device migration, device breakage, and perforation of the uterus, fallopian tubes or other organs. Bayer has also independently received over 30,000 complaints for the device.

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How to Build Intimacy When Abstaining

by Lindsay Schlegel
for Natural Womanhood


I love when I hear couples exclaim how much Natural Family Planning (NFP) has increased the intimacy of their relationship. It might seem counterintuitive to some that a family-planning method requiring periods of sexual abstinence could add intimacy to a relationship, but you’d be surprised what some couples who use NFP would say.

How do couples find periods of abstinence fulfilling? One husband commented on the Natural Womanhood Facebook Page that NFP helped him appreciate his wife more. It could be that having periods of abstinence helps him appreciate the different ways to grow intimacy with his wife besides sexually. While we are sexual beings, perhaps what periods of abstinence provide are opportunities to see each other more fully as the multifaceted people we are.

So, how can you make the most of a 8-9 day period of abstinence?

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Abortion And Fathers’ Rights, A Silent Evil

by James Washington
Human Defense Initiative


Men often feel powerless at the whim of societal pressures to allow the mother to end their child’s life, and with no true legal rights for fathers regarding abortion, the ability to advocate for the life of your child seems impossible.

Fathers have no right to be notified of their partner’s decision to abort their child nor do they have the right of non-consent to the abortion. Upholding the rights of fathers to protect their preborn child’s life becomes a crucial stepping-stone to creating a pro-life culture and outlawing abortion. Gender roles provide balance within society, and when the issue of abortion is dominated by its impact on women, we regularly fail to recognize the impact on men.

Ask anyone who is pro-abortion whether they value consent; their answer will most likely be “yes.” Ask them whether they believe a man must consent to a woman aborting their child; their answer will most likely be “no.”


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Why There's Hope for the Supreme Court

By Maria Gallagher, Legislative Director
Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation 


A renewed hope is bubbling up across the land--thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court appointments of President Donald Trump.

The President's first pick, Justice Neil Gorsuch, has proven to be an able jurist who can read the Constitution without reading extraneous beliefs into it, such as the so-called right to abortion. The President's latest nominee, Judge Brett Kavanaugh, appears to be cut from the same judicial cloth.

The overturn of the tragic U.S. Supreme Court ruling Roe v. Wade seems a greater possibility--especially if another Justice retires. This is welcome news for precious preborn babies and their mothers, who deserve greater protection under the law. The 1973 decision, which was made by unelected male judges, brought us abortion for any reason during all nine months of pregnancy. It is a grave injustice which should be righted by peaceful, legal means.

In an op-ed piece which appeared in Pennsylvania newspapers, lawyer Kathryn Kolbert, who argued the pro-abortion position in the subsequent Planned Parenthood v. Caseycourt case, concludes that "abortion again will be a matter determined state-by-state." While Kolbert raises an objection to that, it would seem that, in a republic such as the United States, that is good news for the electorate. It would mean that the people actually elected to office--rather than a few appointed judges--would determine abortion policy.

In Pennsylvania, Kolbert surmises the state legislature will be able to outlaw or "further restrict abortion and given their current composition, they are likely to do so." Again, since the representatives and senators are sent to Harrisburg by voters, this should be a welcomed outcome. The general public, which, according to national polls oppose most abortions, should be empowered to have a greater influence on abortion law.

Kolbert issues a rallying cry for voters to elect pro-abortion legislators this fall. But research indicates that, for those for whom abortion is the most important issue, pro-life voters have the advantage. The key to victory November 6th will be turnout and enthusiasm--and a commitment to do everything possible to protect life at the polls.

 

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Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf is Trying to Become the Most Pro-Abortion Governor in America

The lives of thousands of preborn children—and the well-being of their mothers—are at stake in this pivotal election year.

By Maria Gallagher
Life News

Democrat Tom Wolf of Pennsylvania seems to be competing for the title of most pro-abortion Governor in the U.S.

The former Planned Parenthood clinic escort doubled down on his support for the abortion industry with a campaign appearance before abortion advocates this week.

While he talks about women having control over their own “health care,” Wolf remains one of the Keystone State’s leading apologists for Big Abortion. Wolf opposes any and all protections for preborn children. He famously stood against a popular proposed ban on dismemberment abortions, which would have stopped the gruesome practice in which living babies are torn limb by limb from their mothers’ wombs.

His staff has said he would also veto the Down Syndrome Protection Act, which would ban the abortion of preborn babies for the sole reason of a Down syndrome diagnosis. The bill won a solid veto-proof, bipartisan majority in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives earlier this year and is now awaiting action in the Pennsylvania Senate.

In sharp contrast, Wolf’s Republican challenger, former state Senator Scott Wagner, amassed an impressive 100 percent pro-life voting record while serving in the state legislature. Unlike Wolf, Wagner supports a ban on taxpayer funding of organizations, such as Planned Parenthood, which perform abortions. Wagner was also instrumental in ensuring that the state enforce abortion center health and safety regulations in the wake of the Kermit Gosnell tragedy in West Philadelphia.

Gosnell, who owned what was famously described as a “House of Horrors,” is serving three life sentences for deliberately delivering three babies alive and then “snipping” their spinal cords. Gosnell was also found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Karnamaya Mongar.

In a statement to television station NBC 10 in Philadelphia, the Wagner campaign said, 

“While Tom Wolf is being funded by a group that prioritizes abortions, and has vetoed pro-life bills on their behalf, Scott has a strong record standing up for the unborn in the Senate and will sign pro-life legislation as Governor.”

Wolf is endorsed by the political arm of Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion operation. Wagner has won the endorsement of the Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation PAC.

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Twitter CEO Defends Censoring Pro-Life Conservatives as Promoting “Healthy Conversation”

By Corinne Weaver
Life News

It seems like “healthy conversation” can now be a code word on the left for “censorship.”

Twitter was forced to explain itself after Vice published a study on July 25 accusing Twitter of “shadowbanning” conservatives, including RNC chair Ronna McDaniel, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA). According to Vice, notable conservative figures didn’t show up in the Twitter search bar as suggested results, while progressive figures showed up immediately.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey responded in an almost accusatory tone, complaining that there was still “a lot more work to do to earn people’s trust.” Using vague language in his tweet, he referred to the actions that resulted in said “shadowbanning” as “conversational health work.” Conservative commentator David Burge called that statement “some next-level Orwellian.” Co-founder of Red 5 Studios Mark Kern referred to Twitter’s overall response as “obfuscation” and that it “undermines our entire democracy”

On July 26, President Trump addressed the controversy via tweet, saying,

“Twitter ‘SHADOW BANNING’ prominent Republicans. Not good. We will look into this discriminatory and illegal practice at once! Many complaints.”

Dorsey’s tweet, which promoted a thread byhead of Twitter Product Kayvon Beykpour, tried to explain the decisions made by Twitter in order to achieve “conversational health work.” Dorsey wrote, “A short thread addressing some issues folks are encountering as a result of our conversational health work, specifically the perception of “shadowbanning” based on content or ideology. It suffices to say we have a lot more work to do to earn people’s trust on how we work.”

In the thread, Beykpour tried to explain away the results of the Vice study. He referred to the new algorithms set in May by Twitter that were meant to “improve the health of the conversation and improve everyone’s Twitter experience.” Beykpour denied that the algorithms made judgments “based on political views or the substance of tweets,” although that flies in the face of what Vice reported.

However, he stated that “some accounts weren’t being auto-suggested even when people were searching for their specific name. Our usage of the behavior signals within search was causing this to happen and making search results seem inaccurate. We’re making a change today that will improve this.” Note the non-apologetic tone in his choice of words. The search results weren’t inaccurate, they just seemed to be so.

World of Warcraft video game designer and co-founder of Red 5 Studios Mark Kern tweeted several critical responses to this thread: 

“Even now, you can’t plainly state what you are doing. This is obfuscation. You act as though machine learning and AI are inherently fair. AI is not neutral or impartial, it embodies the choices of its designers as to the inputs, variables, and especially, what is right or wrong as an outcome. We’d like to know what those choices are. Say them. Can you?”

He also blasted Dorsey for his “healthy conversation” standards, saying 

“Why do you get to decide for us what is “healthy?” . . . Installing machine censors that work in secret to display and shape opinions by the choices it makes on what is acceptable discourse in politics, religion, and life. It undermines our entire democracy.”

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‘They Told Me to Abort, too’: Women Respond to Video on Doctors Pushing Abortion

"No matter the situation, abortion is never the answer."

By Cassy Fiano-Chesser
Live Action News

Modern feminists claim that women need abortion to be legal as a matter of “choice.” Women should be able to choose when they become a mother, the argument goes, though a woman is already a mother at the moment of fertilization. 

Sadly, women are often coerced or pressured into abortion, with threats of homelessness, abuse, or violence — sometimes even from their families. Other times, the pressure comes from the medical community after a poor prenatal diagnosis. But the end result is the same: a woman is left irrevocably changed forever, and an innocent person loses his or her life.

Sometimes, though, a woman is able to say no. Live Action recently featured Suzanne Guy’s story, who was overjoyed to become pregnant after having endometriosis. During an ultrasound at 22 weeks, a specialist told her that her preborn baby did not have any kidneys, that half of her amniotic fluid was gone, and that they suspected a chromosomal abnormality incompatible with life. The specialist said the baby would not survive and that Suzanne was risking her own life, too. 

Abortion was recommended. Two weeks later, a follow-up ultrasound revealed Suzanne had no amniotic fluid left. Again, she was pressured to abort; when Suzanne asked for more testing, the doctors refused. But Suzanne and her husband fought for their daughter’s life, and she was born at 26 weeks, weighing just one pound, two ounces. She was in the NICU for five months.

READ: Women pressured to abort at Planned Parenthood to meet abortion ‘quota’

Rachel is now an adult, and, Suzanne said, “her heart is that no woman should ever be told by her physician to take her child’s life. Since her birth in 1998, I have been profoundly burdened not only for the preborn, but also for women experiencing unplanned pregnancies. 

Rachel’s life was used by God to make us aware of the need for each of us to be His voice for the preborn and for women in crisis who need to see Jesus’ compassion and hope.”

Suzanne’s story has since been shared thousands of times, racking up hundreds of thousands of views on Facebook. And many women who saw her testimony were able to relate all too well.

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Paul VI’s Response to Margaret Sanger’s Sexual Revolution

by Francis J. Pierson
Crisis Magazine


In September of 1966, Margaret Sanger, the outspoken public voice of the Sexual Revolution and founder of Planned Parenthood, died in Tucson, Arizona. Sanger was a passionate sexual libertine whose selfishness extended even towards her own family. Finding child-rearing tedious, she abandoned her three children to caretakers so that she could move about in the “fast lane” unhindered. After her daughter’s death from pneumonia, Sanger showed scant remorse. Her son Grant observed that she was seldom around: “She just left us with anybody at hand and ran off, we didn’t know where.”

Sanger referred to birth control as her “religion” and devised her own Credo of Woman’s Rights. These included: “The right to be lazy. The right to be an unmarried mother. The right to create. The right to destroy. The right to love; and the right to live.” And by love Sanger meant frequent sexual encounters with her extensive stable of partners, although sadly her right to live did not include the unborn. In fact, Sanger so zealously advocated for abortion that one sexual partner, Havelock Ellis, warned her to tone down her rhetoric and focus instead on the woman’s right “to create or not create new life.”

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When Abortionists Fight Each Other…

Lawsuit Pits Abortionists Against Abortion Managers

Mark Harrington, President
Created Equal


Last month, news broke that Founder’s Women’s Health Center (FWHC)—Ohio’s first abortion company—was ceasing operations. Soon thereafter, a new facility offering only medical (i.e., nonsurgical) abortions named Your Choice (YC) opened, suggesting FWHC had been moving an element of their services rather than closing entirely. However, a lawsuit filed in Ohio’s Franklin County brings to light a bitter divorce within FWHC leading not only to the creation of YC but also to allegations of breach of contract, breach of duty of care, and more.

The lawsuit pits abortionists Harley Blank and Karl Schaeffer against Terri Hubbard, who until recently managed FWHC’s abortion business. The abortionists allege T&S Management—owned by Hubbard—committed multiple breaches of conduct, such as conspiring not to properly renew licenses associated with the abortionists in order to unjustly claim their name, assets, and operations.

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Bolstering their case, the abortionists assert Hubbard’s company, which recently moved to the new YC location, took assets while moving which were not theirs; published phone numbers belonging to the abortionists on the new Your Choice website; and are currently using trade names, name and likeness, a web site, and more which belong to the abortionists without their permission.

Further, by performing abortions at the new Your Choice facility, the lawsuit asserts Hubbard is violating a covenant not to compete with the business owned by the abortionists.

This lawsuit—pitting killers against those who manage the killing—is a victory for the babies. Lawlessness breeds lawlessness. The public should take note that those who commit systematic injustice often commit other crimes. These cannot forever remain hidden. They will come to light.

 

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Texas Dad Bars Hospital Door, Prevents Doctors From Removing Son’s Life Support

By Dorothy Cummings McLean
Life Site News

A Texas father likely saved his brain-injured son’s life when he discovered a medical team was about to remove his son's life support.

“If you’re going to unplug him, you’ll have to go through me,” Wren Michel told the doctor and nurses as he stood in front of the door, LifeSiteNews has learned in this exclusive report.

Jonathan Michel, a 39-year-old father of three who lived next door to his parents in Malakoff, Texas, suddenly fell to the ground on June 30 and suffered a serious head injury. He was rushed to the East Medical Center in Tyler, Texas. Doctors discovered that Jonathan had internal bleeding and extensive damage to the left side of his brain.

His right side was almost completely paralyzed.

(Photos of Jonathan and his children prior to the accident posted by Karen to Facebook.)

Doctors advised Wren to find Jonathan’s mother Karen, who was on a mission trip to Africa, and call her home.

But before Karen could reach Jonathan’s bedside, someone else arrived on July 3: Jonathan’s long-estranged wife Jacqueline with a marriage license and a firm conviction, she told LifeSiteNews, that Jonathan would not want to live in that state.

“‘If I’m ever in such a situation,’” Jacqueline Michel said her husband had once told her, “‘I want to let nature take its course’.”

While Jonathan’s parents were pleased that their son was receiving life-saving help from the hospital, Jonathan’s wife was trying to put an end to such help.

Jacqueline asked the hospital to stop treating her estranged husband. She told LifeSiteNews that she had asked Jonathan he wanted “all this stuff [the life-support equipment] off of you” and if he did, to move his left foot. She related that Jonathan then moved his left foot.

But Jonathan’s parents told LifeSiteNews that they do not believe this story, that Jonathan is not yet capable of giving consent, and that his left foot spontaneously moves every few minutes. (Karen has posted a video on Facebook showing this movement.)

Jonathan’s mom Karen told LifeSiteNews that she and Wren had been assured that a decision to end Jonathan’s treatment could not be made before the matter was brought before the hospital’s Ethics Board. Meanwhile, Jonathan was responsive to their presence.

“On Monday [July 16] Jonathan was awake and aware of his surroundings,” Pastor Mark Lee Dickson wrote in his now-viral Facebook post in support of the family. 

“He held his mom’s phone and tried to turn it on. He also unfastened his niece's watch and refastened it on her arm. He closes his eyes when his parents pray with him. These are obvious signs of life.”

Thus, the couple had a shock late that afternoon when they were brought into their son’s room and told that his life support was about to be removed. This included the shunt draining fluid from his brain. Removing it would have caused certain death.

That’s when Jonathan’s father Wren made his stand and barred the door. Police were called, but the parents had made it clear they weren’t letting Jonathan go without a fight.

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