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Wednesday STOPP Report: November 5, 2008
by Patrick Daub
Released November 6, 2008
Video proves PP commits infanticide
In its latest video, Students for Life of America revealed very disturbing information that probably won't surprise most pro-lifers. Planned Parenthood not only supports infanticide, but certain clinics are actually committing the crime! In this disturbing video, a pregnant woman enters a PP facility in Freehold, New Jersey to discuss an abortion with a staff member. Here is a short, disturbing dialogue excerpt from the video:
Pregnant woman: "Is the baby alive?"
Nurse: "Usually not."
Pregnant woman: "Could the baby be born alive?"
Nurse: "Usually, for the most part no, but it does happen. . . It's an actual delivery, but it wouldn't be able to survive on its own, so eventually the baby does die."
Please watch this video and send it to as many people as possible. Here is an organization that is receiving over $330 million each year in taxpayer money and is continually treated as being above the law. If you have not yet signed the petition to defund PP, please do so now by following this link. We cannot allow this evil to go unchallenged. We must defend the defenseless who are being murdered through abortion and infanticide.
St. Louis PP offers free HIV testing
Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region is offering free HIV tests for high school students, in response to the news that up to 50 students in one high school district "may have been exposed to HIV," the AIDS-causing virus. PP wants to create a compassionate image: "Planned Parenthood remains concerned that St. Louis infection rates for sexually transmitted diseases are among the highest in the nation." However, PP contributes significantly to problems such as this with its message that "safe sex" is the only way to prevent sexually transmitted diseases and infections. But we all know that chastity, modesty and saving sex for marriage are the best ways to avoid STDs. PP actually offers free HIV testing to recruit such students as customers, by encouraging them to come in for other "services."
PP buys office in Fresno
Planned Parenthood Mar Monte Inc. has purchased a new building in Fresno, California . The 10,311-square-foot building is in the First & Bullard Center, located at 6095 North First Street. PP purchased it for $1.3 million and plans to use the entire building.
Pro-lifers just finished a 40 Days for Life event at the PP facility located at 650 North Fulton Street in Fresno and are expected to focus attention on this new PP facility. Please pray that God provides the resources needed by Fresno pro-lifers to combat this growing PP presence.
PP's New York City art gala
Planned Parenthood is hosting an "Art 20 2008 Preview Gala," to benefit PP Federation of America, PP Hudson Peconic, PP of Nassau County, and PP of New York City, on Thursday, November 6. Sanford L. Smith and Associates is producing this event, at which PP supporters will enjoy cocktails and hors d'oeuvres while viewing art exhibits. PP is making a determined effort to portray itself as part of normal society and divert attention from its abortion business, all the while lining its pockets.
Please follow this link to contact Sanford L. Smith and Associates and ask them to stop supporting the primary killer of future art lovers in the United States - Planned Parenthood. Please pray that they will have a conversion of heart.
Florida PP facility's first year
Planned Parenthood of Southwest Florida recently celebrated its first year in Manatee County by hosting a luncheon and presenting one of PP 's SOURCE Teen Theater's reportedly "nationally award-winning plays." The play dealt with a pregnant 14-year-old's decision as to whether she should kill her preborn baby and glorifies PP for suggesting that a teen mother should murder her child. The SOURCE troupe has presented such performances in Manatee County schools.
At this event, the local PP center was applauded for bringing its brand of "comprehensive sex education" to a county rife with teen pregnancy. PP believes that the best way to fight teen pregnancy is not to promote what is natural - chastity and abstinence until marriage - but rather to promote promiscuity, ineffective birth control methods, abortifacients and, if all else "fails," which is quite common, surgical or medical abortions. PP is proud that two-thirds of its 400 customers so far this year have been between the ages of 12 and 24. And this is being applauded as success? This is what people consider beneficial sex education?
Last week, we reported that pro-lifers in neighboring Sarasota County prevented PP from receiving $12,500 in taxpayer funds. Let's pray that God will use the growing pro-life influence on Florida's west coast to end PP's insidious activities in Manatee County as well.
Colorado sued over PP funding
The state of Colorado is facing a lawsuit filed by Colorado taxpayers for violating an amendment to Colorado's constitution that prohibits any funding, directly or indirectly, of abortion. The lawsuit's plaintiff, Mark Hotaling, who leads the Christian Family Alliance of Colorado, describes himself as a pro-life taxpayer. The lawsuit, which is for an estimated $18 million, has been filed against Governor Bill Ritter; Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains; James B. Martin, executive director of the state Department of Public Health and Environment; and Boulder Valley Women's Health Center.
Hotaling is represented by Alliance Defense Fund-affiliated attorney Barry Arrington. The lawsuit points out, "In 1984 the voters of the State of Colorado approved an amendment to the Colorado Constitution... prohibiting the use of public funds either directly or indirectly to pay for induced abortions." This is in reference to Article 5, Section 50, which states:
No public funds shall be used by the State of Colorado, its agencies or political subdivisions to pay or otherwise reimburse, either directly or indirectly, any person, agency or facility for the performance of any induced abortion.
Please pray for the plaintiff and Colorado taxpayers, so that their hard-earned tax money will be refunded to them and that the state of Colorado will abide by its own constitution, thus cutting off government funds for PP. Also, please pray that this lawsuit and Colorado's constitutional amendment will inspire other states to follow Colorado pro-lifers' inspiring example of working to defund PP. Please follow this link to defund PP, if you haven't done so already.
Rock for Life's first-ever NPLTD contest
American Life League's Rock for Life is sponsoring its first-ever National Pro-Life T-Shirt Day Design Contest! The contest is open to anyone between the ages of 13 and 35. Prizes include Rock for Life merchandise, SONICFLOOd CDs and much more.
For guidelines and ideas, go to www.NationalProLifeTshirtDay.com. And make sure to mark your calendar for the next National Pro-Life T-shirt Day, April 28, 2009!
40 Days done ... 520 lives saved
Congratulations to David Bereit and all those involved in the just-ended 40 Days for Life campaign! We have brought you information from the campaign's front lines over the last six weeks and have noted that many of the 40 Days events took place outside of PP facilities.
David reports that at least 520 babies' lives were saved during this fall's campaign. Many of those were babies scheduled to die at PP facilities. David also sent an e-mail to American Life League with this very encouraging update:
Some GREAT news!
On a day when many are stressed about elections, I just heard from one of our 40 Days for Life local campaign leaders who is bouncing off the walls with the exciting news that the abortion facility that was the focus of their campaign over these last 40 days is CLOSING!
The "Space Available" real estate sign was put in front of the building on Thursday - day 37 of the campaign. Yesterday, the local leader confirmed with the real estate company that the abortionist is shutting the business down for good.
We will have more details, including the location, as soon as the facility is closed - which should happen very soon. But I knew you'd want to know that your prayers have produced an amazing result!
American Life League monitors activities outside of PP facilities across the country in our Map Room. Although many of the 40 Days activities will be taken off the map in the next week, we know, from experience, that at a number of PP locations, regular pro-life activities will continue. If you will be participating in activities that began during 40 Days, but are continuing on a regular basis, please send an e-mail to protests@all.org. Let us know the details of your ongoing effort, and we will post the information for the entire world to see.
During this last 40 Days campaign, when the special 40 Days events were combined with all of the ongoing regularly scheduled activities at PP facilities, there was activity outside of one-fifth of all PP facilities. We look forward to the day when there are regularly scheduled protests (including prayer vigils, picketing, sidewalk counseling, scripture walls and other prayerful, peaceful, legal efforts) outside of every PP facility. Please consider starting activity outside your local PP today!
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