Voices for Life

Thursday, November 3, 2016

Planned Parenthood CEO Admits FBI Probe Hurting Hillary: “The Media is Difficult for Us to Control Right Now”

By Micaiah Bilger
Life News

Abortion activists admitted this week that they are worried about the re-launched FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails.
Planned Parenthood, NARAL and other pro-abortion groups want to see Clinton win the White House, and they are spending tens of millions of dollars to back her. But their money and influence have not been able to completely shield Clinton from scandal.

The past year has been full of controversies surrounding Clinton as well as the abortion giant Planned Parenthood. From the undercover videos that exposed Planned Parenthood’s aborted baby parts trafficking to Clinton’s email issues and questionable donations to her family’s foundation, the pro-abortion leaders have struggled to present themselves as trustworthy.

Just one week before the election, the situation has not changed.

According to Breitbart:

Planned Parenthood Action Fund (PPAF) president Cecile Richards is acknowledging to abortion activists that tumult surrounding the FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails is making it difficult for her organization to control its narrative through its usual media allies.

During a tele-townhall event this week, an attendee asked how Planned Parenthood supporters can “take the microphone away from Trump.” Richards admitted, “The media is difficult for us to control right now.”

Richards, who makes close to $1 million a year while Planned Parenthood aborts more babies than any other group in the U.S., also bashed Republican Donald Trump during the call. She claimed that Clinton is a “wonderful role model” and Trump is “unfit to be president.”

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Hillary Clinton's Pro-Abortion Pledge

Martin Fox, President
National Pro-Life Alliance

NPLA members have long known that Democrat presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is a staunch supporter of abortion-on-demand.

But during the last two debates with Republican nominee Donald Trump, she made it clearer than ever that she seeks to eliminate all attempts to restrict abortion-on-demand.

How does she plan to accomplish this?

By stacking the Supreme Court with more radical pro-abortion judges.

With the recent death of pro-life judge Antonin Scalia, the next president will have at least one seat to fill with the possibility of appointing as many as three more.

And we know what kind of judges Hillary Clinton wants. . .

Hillary has already pledged that she wants a Supreme Court that will “stick with Roe v. Wade” and the so-called “right to abortion” they invented.

With recent court cases, you and I have seen that activist pro-abortion judges like the ones Hillary would appoint can’t stomach even the slightest restrictions to abortion-on-demand.

And if Hillary Clinton wins the election, she could stack the courts with judges who would judicially invent protection for abortion-on-demand for generations to come.

With the election fast approaching, please do all you can.

The National Pro-Life Alliance occupies a unique and important role in the pro-life movement. The focus of many other pro-life organizations is research, publications or counseling. These are all important and worthy activities, but the National Pro-Life Alliance is singular in its focus on passing pro-life legislation that will protect the unborn from the moment of conception onward.

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He Has Been Killing Babies in Abortions Since 1967, When a Baptist Minister Asked Him to Do Them

“Am I killing? Yes, I am. I know that,” he said.

By Micaiah Bilger
Life News

Curtis Boyd is one of just a few abortionists who still openly performs late-term abortions in America.

His practice of killing viable, late-term babies disgusts and horrifies most Americans but not the editors at Cosmopolitan. This week, the women’s magazine published a glowing profile of Boyd that highlighted his work, including his illegal abortion practice before Roe v. Wade.

Boyd runs two abortion facilities in Texas and New Mexico. Several months ago, investigators uncovered a suspicious relationship between Boyd and the University of New Mexico, which receives aborted baby parts from his abortion facility. The university also sent medical students for training at his late-term abortion facility.

A university spokesperson said they did not pay Boyd for the aborted babies’ body parts. The abortion facility also did not receive money for the medical students’ training, leading some to question whether the students’ work was exchanged for the aborted babies’ body parts.

In December 2015, the university broke ties with Boyd, but the women’s magazine did not mention any of this. Instead, the magazine allowed Boyd to paint himself as a hero for helping women to abort their unborn babies before it was legal.

He explained how he first got involved in abortion work back in 1967.

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Eight out of Ten Americans Surveyed Support Abortion Limits

By Jeanne Mancini, President, March for Life
for The Hill

During the first presidential debate this year, the candidates’ abortion views were the second most searched topic on the Internet, according to Google, yet it wasn’t until the final debate that moderator Chris Wallace pressed the candidates on their stances on abortion.

His very first question of the night was about the kind of judges they would nominate to the U.S. Supreme Court, a significant question during any presidential campaign that’s even more pressing this year with a vacancy on our nation’s highest court. Donald Trump responded, “The justices that I am going to appoint will be pro-life. They will have a conservative bent.” Not surprisingly, Hillary Clinton re-affirmed her commitment to upholding Roe v. Wade.

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Wednesday, November 2, 2016

Join Us in West Chester, Pa on Nov 6th for Our Walk with Memorial Crosses

from Paulette Matthews
40 Days for Life Coordinator, Chester County

Greetings to Supporters of 40 Days for Life!

We are one or two votes away from overturning Roe vs. Wade. If in the next 4 years, Supreme Court Justices who support the sanctity of life are not appointed, it may be 50 years or more before America has the opportunity to protect life again.

Since 1996 over 20,000 innocent unborn babies have died in West Chester right where we pray. We need to come together again in prayer petitioning God for his mercy and lead our country back to all the principles that America was founded on and protected by our constitution.

If at all possible, come be a visible sign that life is precious and we have concerns for the future of our country.

To reach as many people as possible at this crucial time in the history of the United States, 40 Days for Life will close this Fall Campaign by carrying the 57 white Memorial crosses through the borough of West Chester stopping at the old courthouse.

We will gather in the back parking lot of St. Agnes Catholic Church at 2:00 pm. Each person will be asked to carry one white cross representing 1 million babies lost to abortion.

Signs will also be handed out to carry, giving an explanation as to why we are processing. The longer the line of crosses, the more impact this walk will have on the community so we truly need a minimum of 70 people.

Children are encouraged to join in this walk. Who else better to represent the unborn?

We will conclude the procession at the Knights of Columbus Hall, 110 W. Market Street. A light lunch will be served in appreciation for your participation in 40 Days and making this Memorial Procession possible. Thomas Ackerman is our featured guest speaker. He will share with us his thought on "In Human Nature".

This is a great event to invite those that have not yet participated in a 40 Days for Life event as they will have the opportunity to meet other people who have a concern for the unborn and their families. All are welcome.

The Moral Choice for President in 2016

by Joe Story
Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust

Enough has been said and written about the moral shortcomings of both presidential candidates during this insane election cycle. Based on character alone neither is qualified for the Christian vote. So should Christians stay home? Or accomplish the effectual equivalent by voting third party? Well, that’s definitely what Democrats would like to see. Imagine, after eight years of President Barack Hussein Obama, after twenty trillion dollars in fiscal operating debt, an all-out assault on religious liberty, the fundamental redefinition of marriage by judicial fiat, after being now at the point where we are one activist lawyer on the Supreme Court away from abortion on demand through all nine months of pregnancy in every state and the barbaric practice of partial birth abortion foisted on the entire union from the DC bench, that a second Saul Alinsky Democrat in a row could actually get elected to the highest office of America while a less than adequate percentage of the nation's 80 million Christians do anything in the ballot box to stop it.

Look, I get it. We didn’t get our guy (or gal) through the primary. But let’s be a hundred percent accurate, if even a quarter of the moral and spiritual heavyweights in the churches now constantly blasting social media with promises that they’re not tarnishing their witness to support Trump would have spent even a sliver of the effort to actually stick their neck out there in support of Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio during primary season, the current climate would be much different. If we had Ted or Marco, there would be no moral issue with voting for the Republican candidate to complain about, so the vast majority of the blame rests on the shoulders of the Christian who sat on their hands during the primary and now saddles up their high horse. It’s quite pathetic, actually. If America is forever fundamentally transformed by a Hillary presidency, we (the American churches) will have been hoisted on our own petard (see: the German churches during the Holocaust).

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Tuesday, November 1, 2016

Judge Blocks Alabama Law Banning Abortion Facilities From Operating Near Schools

By Heather Clark
Christian News

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A federal judge in Alabama who once ordered the removal of Roy Moore’s Ten Commandments monument has now also blocked a state law banning abortion facilities from operating near k-8 schools.

Judge Myron Thompson, appointed to the bench by then-President Jimmy Carter, opined that the law would close two abortion facilities that perform an estimated 70 percent of abortions in the state, and would therefore place an undue “burden” on mothers seeking to obtain an abortion since they would have to drive further.

“This burden would become particularly devastating for low-income women who represent half of all abortion recipients and a significant majority of women seeking abortions in Alabama,” he wrote.

Thompson said that it if women can’t have an abortionist end the lives of their children, they will resort to doing it themselves.

“Recently, Tuscaloosa’s medical director has treated multiple women who attempted to self-abort, such as a woman who consumed turpentine after consulting the Internet and learning about its use as a folk remedy,” he wrote. “So too can Alabama expect an increased level of self-abortions if the school-proximity law were to take effect.”

Thompson also contended that there was no evidence that the law, which was passed in part to keep children from being exposed to the issue of abortion, was necessary.

“The record contains absolutely no evidence of concerns expressed by the school’s students or their parents about the Huntsville clinic or the demonstrations near it,” he stated. “As to Highlands, the State’s two interests (minimizing disruption and supporting a parent’s right to control their children’s exposure to the subject of abortion) would not in any way be furthered by the closing or relocation of the Huntsville Clinic.

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26 Black Pastors Slam Hillary Clinton Over Babies Killed in Abortion: “Don’t Black Lives Matter?”

"Abortion in the black community has had a catastrophic impact."

By Steven Ertelt
Life News

A coalition of 26 black Christian leaders and pastors have released an open letter slamming pro-abortion presidential candidate Hillary Clinton for her strong support for abortion. Te black Christian leaders say abortion has had a “catastrophic impact” on the black community because black unborn children are disproportionately targeted in abortions.

“Today in the United States more than ten million people of African descent face a crisis of catastrophic proportion,” it says. “As leaders of the Pentecostal-Charismatic wing of the black church, we are requesting a meeting with you to discuss some of the critical issues in the black community: education and employment, religious freedom, violence, and justice for the unborn.”

“How do you justify your unconscionable silence in the face of such destruction of innocent black life? Don’t black lives matter?” they ask Clinton about abortion.

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Secretary Clinton, we are also very concerned about your position regarding unborn children and the black church’s commitment to defend them.

In April 2015 in a speech before the National Organization of Women you stated “Far too many women are still denied critical access to reproductive health care and safe childbirth… Laws have to be backed up with resources and political will. And deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed…”

For political leaders to call for changes in citizens’ beliefs is reminiscent of totalitarianism. In our view, such a proposal constitutes a denial of our religious freedom.

The vast majority of black churches hold biblical teaching, which is eternal, as authoritative for doctrine and practice. Abortion is the deliberate destruction of a human life in its most vulnerable state. Biblical principle and natural law, both of which prohibit the taking of innocent human life, compel our concern about the increasing moral complicity with abortion.

For the same reasons that we as black Christian leaders oppose racism, unjust wars, capital punishment and euthanasia, we oppose the violent denial of life to the unborn through abortion.

It is our view that human life is a gift of God that we are called upon to protect, nurture and sustain, because we are created in God’s image. Therefore, our opposition to abortion is a logical outgrowth of our view that there must be justice for all.

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Don't Let the Pundits Scare You Away-- Vote on Election Day!

by Maria Gallagher, Legislative/PAC Director
Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation

Imagine if a week before the start of high school football season, the local sportscasters broadcast, every hour on the hour, which team was going to win every game. They weren't simply reporting win-loss records of previous seasons--they were saying, uncategorically, which teams would fail and which would succeed. What effect would that have on the players, the coaches, the cheerleaders, and the parents who sacrificed so much to ensure that their children had an opportunity to participate? Such media reports would in fact be irresponsible, because they would cross the line from reporting on the outcome of student competitions to possibly influencing the final score by cheerleading for one side over another. Why would the players even bother to show up for the game, if they already knew how it would end?

My hunch is that those high school students would continue to practice, would continue to run through their plays, and would assemble on Game Day--no matter what any media outlet had said about the contest they were about to engage in. Why? Because, with their idealism intact, these young people would know it would be the right thing to do.

The same should be true for us as adult citizens. We have the sacred duty to exercise our right to vote on November 8th. It is our obligation, not just to this generation, but for generations to come. So many critical offices are on the ballot, determining how policy will be set from the White House to the corridors of Congress to the State Capitol.

Do not be discouraged by the negativity you see in TV broadcasts, in political ads, or even in frenzied Facebook debates. With your vote, you have a voice. Do not let that voice be silenced.

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Americans Don’t Want to be Taxed to Pay for Abortions

Countries Receiving U.S. Foreign Aid Money Don’t Want to be Pressured into Abortions Either

by Jonathan Abbamonte
Population Research Institute

Perhaps you have heard the saying abortion advocates often like to repeat: ‘if you don’t like abortion, then don’t get one.’

Well, we not only don’t like abortions, we don’t like being forced to pay for them or to do anything else that would facilitate the termination of the life of an unborn child. Yet that is precisely what abortion advocates want us to do.

In a first for either political party, the 2016 Democratic Party Platform has made a clear break with America’s longstanding policies prohibiting taxpayer-funded abortion. The Democratic Platform promises to “support the repeal” of the Helms Amendment and to “overturn...federal and state laws and policies that impede a woman’s access to abortion, including by repealing the Hyde Amendment.” These two amendments have long served as a bulwark in protecting the conscience rights of tens of millions of Americans like you and I, Americans who are absolutely opposed to the use of their tax dollars to pay for abortions.

The Platform also promises to “repeal” the Mexico City Policy, which it disparagingly refers to as the “global gag rule,” which under previous administrations had prevented American taxpayer dollars from funding organizations that perform abortions abroad.

Policies barring taxpayer money from being used to pay for abortion have long been uncontroversial and a rare point of bipartisanship for both Democrats and Republicans. For decades, most lawmakers realized that forcing all Americans to subsidize abortion, many of which are strongly opposed on moral grounds, was simply not good public policy.

While abortion advocates have long desired to see the floodgates of government funding opened to subsidizing abortion procedures, publicly advocating for taxpayer-funded abortion has long been perceived, even on the left, as a third rail in politics.

Few laws or policies have had a greater effect in protecting the lives of the unborn than Hyde and Helms. According to the Charlotte Lozier Institute, the Hyde Amendment, has saved over 2.13 million lives since it was first included in the annual federal appropriations bill.

What are Americans’ Views on Taxpayer-Funded Abortion?

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