http://www.all.org/rss_nauc.php American Life League News and Updates Commentary RSS Feed en-us Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:23:24 EST Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:23:24 EST http://www.all.org webmaster@all.org webmaster@all.org http://www.all.org/newsroom_allblog.php?id=2329 2008-09-08 04:31:00 The Associated Press recently reported on the rise of abortion in Taiwan, and with it a new service offered by Buddhist temples: post-abortion mourning.  While the temples, once the forefront of pro-life action in the nation, are down, they certainly are not out and are doing what they can to help those women who have now come to regret their abortions. This is an example of the course of events we see repeated in nation after nation: abortion is legalized abortion clinics spring up to perform abortions the abortion rate goes up the number of women who regret their abortion increases post-abortion healing groups enter the picture post-abortive women speak out In the US, groups like Rachel's Vineyard and Project Rachel formed to help those women who have had abortions, and were followed by Silent No More and Operation Outcry, groups dedicated to giving post-abortive women – and now men – an opportunity to share their story.  Now these groups have gone international, with Rachenl's Vineyard operating on all six populated continents. http://www.all.org/newsroom_allblog.php?id=2322 2008-08-29 17:19:00 As kids across the country are going back to school, meeting their new teachers and seeing their old friends, Planned Parenthood will continue to target these young people with its contraceptive and pro-death mentality.  I won't even mention what Planned Parenthood is trying to do in kids’ classrooms; the Planned Parenthood facility in Binghamton, NY will be celebrating the killing of more children and destroying more young peoples’ lives by looking at condoms as "art". Seriously, Planned Parenthood is that stupid. This organization will display a "prom dress," made out of condoms and will be placed on a backseat of a car and an "evening gown" made out of condoms will be placed next to a bed. This is Planned Parenthood’s vision of healthy behavior for our young people. Hey, I’ve got an idea – let’s teach our kids about respecting their bodies and the bodies of others through something called common sense – AKA chastity. Kids are not looking for sexual relationships, they’re focused on their friends, their homework, sports – Planned Parenthood wants to rob our children of their innocence and make it into some kind of joke. In the meantime, this organization kills 289,750 preborn babies each year. Let’s shut these clinics down once and for all. Sign the petition to stop Planned Parenthood’s tax funding and start a protest. http://www.all.org/newsroom_allblog.php?id=2311 2008-08-20 09:37:00 A 24-year-old Australian woman has died because of a deadly combination of Yasmin, a birth control product, and an acne medication called Accutane. She died only four months after she started taking the birth control pill. Tanya Hayes died from a pulmonary embolism. Public Citizen's Health Research Group lists Yasmin as a "Do Not Use drug". They label it as one of the worst pills out there because it can "cause increased blood levels of potassium and is no more effective than other oral contraceptives in preventing pregnancy." In fact Yasmin, like many other birth control products, also works as an abortifacient. Women, listen up: The birth control pill is not safe! The pill kills. http://www.all.org/newsroom_allblog.php?id=2305 2008-08-14 18:12:00 Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio – the same group that poisons several neighborhoods in my Cincinnati hometown – has a brand new web site to teach kids all about sex. It’s called "The ‘A’ Word Ohio." Now, since Planned Parenthood is the world’s largest abortion provider, maybe you, like me, assumed the "A" word meant abortion. It makes sense. But no, Planned Parenthood has decided to teach "abstinence" education to all the school kids they get to talk to thanks to YOUR tax dollars. Check out PP’s TakeCareDownThere.com campaign if you’d like to hear about Planned Parenthood’s definition of abstinence – the disgustingly explicit new site promotes masturbation as a healthy, abstinent choice we should all respect. In the twisted mentality of Planned Parenthood, abstinence equals masturbation. So in the last two weeks, Planned Parenthood has added two more weapons in it’s campaign to sexualize our kids. As Planned Parenthood prepares to launch www.theawordohio.com right on the heels of www.takecaredownthere.com , I’m starting to get eerie flashbacks to the systematic encouragement of kid’s sex games in Brave New World; it should be required reading for the pro-life movement. Planned Parenthood is trying hard to create a brave new world for kids – one with a condom in every kid’s pocket, "just in case," and a Planned Parenthood abortion mill around every corner so they can reap the bloody profits of their faulty condoms. http://www.all.org/newsroom_allblog.php?id=2301 2008-08-13 15:13:00 Word is getting out about the dangerous side effects of the birth control pill, patch, IUD and other birth control products. More women are learning about the abortifacient effects of these drugs and how they can really mess up a woman’s body with migraines, depression, blood clots, cancer and other ailments. British scientists have discovered that the pill can actually change a woman’s love interest! This dangerous drug can make a woman fall for a guy who is "genetically less compatible," so she could fall for a man who she normally wouldn’t be interested in! The pill can “alter the type of male scent that women find most attractive.” What does that mean for relationships? The research shows that it "could have implications for fertility and relationship breakdowns." The pill affects women’s ability to "judge the genetic compatibility of men by means of their smell." The researchers also said that it could affect relationships even if a woman stops taking the pill, because she could "no longer find her boyfriend or husband so attractive." So a woman could actually find her perfect match and then because of the pill, she moves on to some other man and finds herself in one failed relationship after another. It's just another reason to stay off the pill! http://www.all.org/newsroom_allblog.php?id=2294 2008-08-05 13:14:00 Investigators say that ten minutes after giving birth to her daughter in an on-campus apartment a year ago, 19-year-old Terri Rhodes of Michigan suffocated the child, wrapped her in a garbage bag and left her body in the shower.  Sounds like murder, yes? What's interesting here is the conviction for which she pleaded guilty: voluntary manslaughter, a first-degree felony for the unlawful killing committed with serious provocation. This plea bargain carries 20-40 years in prison. Had she pleaded not guilty she would have faced a longer sentence with several other charges including first-degree murder.  In their investigation police found evidence that Rhodes searched the internet in the days before her daughter's birth for information on how to terminate a pregnancy, which raised some questions of whether her child's murder was premeditated. Do you think research on abortion is evidence of premeditated felony-one murder if when a woman kills her child in the moments after birth? If so, wouldn't that point to something being wrong with abortion itself, just as we have been saying for years? We read another story out of Florence, Alabama, where a woman succeeded in killing her preborn child by severing the umbilical cord. In this case, the woman was charged with manslaughter as well. This brings up some serious questions about when a preborn child's life is protected that can be only answered with one reasonable answer: Always! http://www.all.org/newsroom_allblog.php?id=2288 2008-07-31 14:34:00 We are happy to report that another Planned Parenthood facility is closing, this time in the state of Michigan. The clinic located in Albion, MI is closing in August due to a lack of customers. Planned Parenthood just couldn't make enough money off of the young people in Southern Michigan to keep it open! Good. This particular Planned Parenthood clinic is located in a predominantly black and minority community. Planned Parenthood has been known to move into these types of neighborhoods and target African-American women. We constantly hear the numerous reports on Planned Parenthood's racist agenda. Fortunately, in the case of Albion targeting minority communities has worked against Planned Parenthood, and its attempt to murder preborn babies and ruin people's lives has failed. http://www.all.org/newsroom_allblog.php?id=2285 2008-07-29 10:07:00 Apparently a child’s innocence is about as mythological as the Tooth Fairy for those immersed in the culture of death. We tirelessly protect our children from violent and sexual imagery, and from "educators" who think it appropriate to teach children about contraception. Think I'm talking about Planned Parenthood? Not this time. That would be stating the obvious. According to an article appearing in the New York Daily News, the manufactures of LifeStyles Condoms want to court teen pop star Miley Cyrus to push its products, thereby endorsing "safe sex." Yep. Miley Cyrus. In case you don't know of her, she's fifteen! If it wasn't clear before, it certainly is now: The peddlers of sex want to indoctrinate teens and preteens by exploiting mediums and personalities that parents trust to be safe-zones. Just imagine - the young, cheerful, role model on your daughter's backpack could soon be appearing on YouTube pushing condoms. I don't anticipate Ms. Cyrus will accept a condom endorsement deal. The fallout would be tantamount to career-suicide. However, let this be as a warning to parents - here we can see the mindset of the purveyors of death, and the things your kids consume are vulnerable to their poison. http://www.all.org/newsroom_allblog.php?id=2280 2008-07-23 17:39:00 Last week I posted a story about Planned Parenthood providing condoms to 11-year-old children.  Think that was an isolated incident? In Vallejo, California on August 2, Planned Parenthood will be present at "Vallejo Celebrates Youth," a children's health event taking place at the Children's Wonderland playground. It will be co-hosted by the Greater Vallejo Recreation District. Activities include everything children love: a magic show, teddy bears, gymnastics and dancers. Parents will have access to information on oral health, obesity and second-hand smoke.   When I called the GVRD and asked the Special Events director why America's largest abortion provider would be attending a children's event, she told me that Planned Parenthood would be there offering parents "other information such as birth control and HIV prevention." Doesn't that sound charming? While little Billy takes a breather from climbing the playground's jungle gym, he can skip over to Planned Parenthood's table and help himself to the bowl of what he thinks are free balloons. Call the Greater Vallejo Recreation District at 707-648-4600 and express your outrage. You might even want to click the link below and contact the local groups attending the event. Charitably remind them of Planned Parenthood's participation of the event and that perhaps they should remove themselves from the celebration. Our children need safer places to play – far, far, far from Planned Parenthood's child-killing influence. http://www.all.org/newsroom_allblog.php?id=2275 2008-07-23 11:46:00 We don't often do this, but the message is so clear and potent that it needs no explanation. The following was printed in the July 22, 2008 Coprus Christi Caller-Times from Rock for Life Corpus Christi Chapter Director Jeremy Puente: It's time for youth to stop sitting silent as our generation is murdered by surgical and chemical abortions. It's time to sound the battle cry of a generation that has been silenced forever. 50,000,000 babies killed by surgical abortion alone, not counting those chemically aborted by contraceptives. Why have we done nothing? Because organizations like Planned Parenthood lie, telling us about 'safe sex' when abstinence is the only way to avoid STDs, HIVs, AIDs, etc. But those of us who know the truth, aren't we sick and tired of the lies they keep forcing down our throats? Too long have we hidden, afraid. Too long have we said or done nothing. This does not mean that we stop or give up. It means we pick up where we left off, that we stay on the front lines, that we be a voice for those who will never have one. Use peaceful, prayerful activism. Pray for an end to abortion. May we find our places in this battle. http://www.all.org/newsroom_allblog.php?id=2272 2008-07-22 16:59:00 The Truth always wins. South Dakota saw its only abortion clinic close its doors July 21 – the first day of a new state law requiring abortionists to tell women the truth: Abortion kills a human being and poses great risks to women’s physical and mental health. Allegedly unable to comply with the new law, Planned Parenthood of Sioux Falls closed up business and left for the day. WorldNetDaily.com and JillStanek.com report that women waiting for appointments found the doors locked in South Dakota’s only abortion mill. "This is historic," said activist Dr. Allen Unruh, a member of South Dakota’s Vote Yes for Life group. "For the first time in 35 years, Planned Parenthood has had to close its doors." As Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals lifts the injunction on the 2005 law and abortion practitioners are forced to comply or face up to two years in jail, loss of their medical licenses and the possibility of a medical malpractice lawsuit, will Planned Parenthood simply pack up the bags of its one and only South Dakota abortion mill rather than risk it? We hope and pray that's the case! But for at least one day, in one state in this Union, preborn children were safe. http://www.all.org/newsroom_allblog.php?id=2270 2008-07-22 10:00:00 Seriously folks, when you think Planned Parenthood can't get any more stupid, it pulls something like this that really makes you wonder about its standing as a national "health organization." Not only does Planned Parenthood kill innocent children every day – 5,572 each week – it now holds pro-lifers against their will. This past weekend some local pro-lifers were protesting outside of the Planned Parenthood facility in St. Louis, Missouri. The Operation Rescue's Truth Truck, driven by Mark Gietzen, pulled into Planned Parenthood's parking lot, which by the way, is perfectly legal. What did Planned Parenthood do? Security guards at this facility closed the parking lot's iron gates so Mark and the Truth Truck could not leave Planned Parenthood. Talk about stupid. So what happened? Mothers who are considering abortion could see the truck parked in Planned Parenthood's parking lot and obviously could see the pictures of aborted babies. Operation Rescue President Troy Newman said, "By locking the Truth Truck into their parking lot, they were accomplishing our work for us!" Women were seeing the truth behind abortion – something Planned Parenthood would never tell them about. So, yes after the police arrived, Planned Parenthood had to release the truck. In our country, you can't hold someone against their will, but you can kill people – as long as they're inside their mother's womb. http://www.all.org/newsroom_allblog.php?id=2261 2008-07-16 02:24:00 WHOA!  A Planned Parenthood clinic in Indiana is making noise over its recent decision to start promoting adoption. Yes, you heard that right: A Planned Parenthood clinic in Indiana – part of the nationwide chain that sells 120 abortions for every single adoption is pushes – is just now starting to promote adoption. This is something that thousands of pro-life pregnancy resource centers have been offering for free for decades. The Post-Tribune of Northwestern Indiana reports: The Planned Parenthood clinic in Merrillville recently established a new program that should further distance itself from an image fostered by critics who claim its prime function is performing abortions. This week, the clinic became the third in Indiana to offer free services promoting adoption. The clinic joins a handful of centers nationwide in offering on-site counselors from a local adoption agency. "Our mission is to provide women with options, to give them information so they can make good decisions for themselves and their families," said Liz Carroll, vice president of patient services for Planned Parenthood of Indiana. Of course we are always supportive of adoption as an option and one of the pro-life movement's greatest legacies is the multitude of children adopted by pro-life families. However, that is not the issue here. What we see here is Planned Parenthood confirming what we've known for years: They weren't actively promoting adoption as an option in their counseling sessions and are now trying to remedy that with a slick PR move. It's not difficult to promote adoption. Yes, having a counselor from an adoption agency on-site can help, but Planned Parenthood doesn't need that in order to promote adoption over abortion. It's like someone saying, "We now have a maid, so our floors will now be vacuumed." You don't need a professional to do something like this. If Planned Parenthood is claiming that it can now promote adoption because it has an on-site counselor from an adoption agency, wouldn't that imply that any other Planned Parenthood clinic that doesn't have one is failing to offer a true variety of choices, and therefore can be labeled pro-abortion?  We have heard reports from pregnant women who have been to Planned Parenthood clinics that they can be heavy handed in their "counseling" sessions, attempting to steer women towards abortion. This is just another attempt by Planned Parenthood's media spin team to cleanse a dirty image – instead they just draw attention to the organization's spotty record. http://www.all.org/newsroom_allblog.php?id=2250 2008-07-11 10:31:00 Protesting Planned Parenthood is about more than abortion. It's also about Planned Parenthood's complicity in the sexual activities of preteens. Any normal person should know a problem exists when an 11-year-old asks for a condom, but for Planned Parenthood the answer is, "How many do you want?" The Derry News in Derry, NH covers the story of pro-lifers outside the Birch Street Planned Parenthood and the clinic's willingness to put condoms in the hands of sixth-graders. That's right. At the age when they're being introduced to prime numbers and earth tectonics, Planned Parenthood is introducing them to sexual activity. According to ALL's Map Room, protesters like Jeanette Dufour are out there every Wednesday trying to not only shut down the clinic but to protect children from entering its doors. From the Derry News story: "I met these boys, 11 years old, on their skateboards going to get condoms. He told me how old he was and he had two condoms. One was for his 12th birthday, which he was going to use to celebrate," Dufour recalled. Dufour said that when she asked the boy how many partners he would have in his life before he got married, he told her 15. When she asked him what he would do if his last partner, the one he married, couldn't have kids because of something like a previous abortion or an STD, the boy responded, "I would never marry anyone who went to Planned Parenthood." Now that's a stigma Planned Parenthood can never seem to shake. http://www.all.org/newsroom_allblog.php?id=2248 2008-07-11 10:00:00 The Planned Parenthood clinic in Huntsville, Alabama closes its doors. PRAISE GOD! Back in 2007, this facility stopped committing medical and surgical abortions, and now it is completely closed. This leaves Alabama with only two Planned Parenthood facilities. Planned Parenthood claims that there wasn't enough public funding to keep it open; yet Planned Parenthood receives hundreds of millions of dollars from the government each year and are building huge, abortion fortresses across the country, focusing on suburban areas. Last year, it received $336,700,000 from taxpayers, but what else would Planned Parenthood say about a clinic closure? It certainly wouldn't give any credit to the active pro-lifers who were out in front of the clinic protesting and witnessing every week! Thank you to Bound4LIFE Huntsville and all of the local pro-lifers in this community who helped shut down this Planned Parenthood facility. Praise God. Protesting works! Please visit www.all.org/stopp/maps, and may you be open to God using you to witness outside of a Planned Parenthood facility.