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• New Louisiana Abortion Laws Challenged In Court

  By Ian Kelly • August 11, 2010 12:36 PM

  

  Louisiana recently passed two new statutory requirements for women seeking an abortion. The first requirement is that a woman undergo an ultrasound and be given the picture of the ultrasound. The other requirement would exclude elective abortion services from medical malpractice insurance coverage. A group of six Louisiana abortion clinics have joined together to challenge these new requirements in court.

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• Woman Sentenced to 30 Years To Life For Killing Pregnant Woman And Her Fetus

  By Ian Kelly • August 05, 2010 02:26 PM

  

  The Los Angeles Time reports:
  

  A 23-year-old woman was sentenced Tuesday to 30 years to life in state prison for driving her vehicle into a crowd of people at a South Los Angeles gas station, killing a pregnant woman and her fetus.

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• Twin's Pro-LIFE Children's Book Goes To National Educators Association Conference

  By Christina Martin • August 04, 2010 01:53 PM

  When Darlene Wibeto was a little girl she loved to write stories. In the fourth grade, she had a teacher who saw something special in her. "You are going to be a writer" Ms.Shaw told her. "One day I am going to see your name on books".

  That word proved true years later, in her early 20's, when she along with her twin sister Danielle, published their first book, "Justice Loves Babies".

   

  Danielle was in a Children's Literature class in college when God gave her a vision of a book that would help children pray to end abortion. The Lord told her the characters, storyline, and let her know her sister Darlene would be the one to write it. He also made it clear that the family in the book was to be African-American.

   

  Danielle shared the vision with Darlene, reminded her of Ms.Shaw's word and challenged her by asking, "What if you could write a book that has the same impact on abortion as “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” had on slavery?"

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• Freedom Rides Met Resistance in Atlanta

  By Christina Martin • July 30, 2010 02:00 PM

  On Saturday, July 24th the Pro-life Freedom bus led by Alveda King and accompanied by other leaders left Birmingham and drove to Atlanta.

  I met the group downtown, as they were marching to Dr. MLK Jr.’s  tomb. It was powerful to see these devoted followers of Christ walking down the same streets as King did, proclaiming justice for the unborn.

  As we got closer to the tomb, I began to hear shouts of “Trust Black Women! and “Shame on you!” To my surprise there was a group of 30 or so protesters, mostly Black, 20 something yr olds, holding signs and screaming at us. The police wouldn’t allow us to pray or stand near the tomb or the center, but they were able to protest on the grounds, while we were moved across the street to pray on public property.

  I was heartbroken to see black women view us as enemies, when in reality we were there to pray and fight for their freedom. They screamed “This is not Kings Legacy", while I wondered, “what is a culture of death”?

   

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• Is The NAACP Missing Something?

  By Christina Martin • July 20, 2010 11:05 AM

  The NAACP's recent accusations of alleged racism amongst Tea Party Members has sparked a wave of debate and discussion on the topic of racism, rights and government spending.

   

  Everyone on both sides agrees upon one thing. Racism is unacceptable and should not be tolerated in any form. NAACP president Benjamin Jealous declared he is not condemning the entire Tea party movement as racist, rather he is calling for leaders to stand against the actions of racist members and hold them accountable for their words. Vice President Joe Biden said on Sunday that neither he or the President thinks the Tea Party is a "racist organization". He continued, "There are individuals who are either members of or on the periphery of some of their things, their protests, that have expressed really unfortunate comments. But it is not a racist organization."

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• Baby For Sale At Walmart

  By Christina Martin • July 08, 2010 12:49 PM

  A couple was arrested a few weeks ago for attempting to sell their 8 month old baby outside of a Walmart in California, for just 25$.

  Patrick Fousek, 38, and Samantha Tomasini, 20 approached two women outside the store and asked them if they’d like to purchase their child. The ladies believed them to be joking at first, but after they persisted, the women become concerned and called the police.

  Fousek and Tomasini were arrested shortly after that and are now facing charges for child endangerment, along with drug charges. Their bail is set at $25,000 pending a preliminary hearing. Reports say they could possibly serve four years in prison. Their baby is currently in the custody of Child Protective Services.

  This story is heartbreaking for a number of reasons.

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• Pro-LIFE Freedom Rides

  By Christina Martin • July 06, 2010 10:53 AM

  

   

  In the summer of 1961 a brave group of thirteen white and black men and women boarded two buses to travel from Washington D.C, to New Orleans. This was no ordinary venture. These adults were on a mission to change history.

   

  The Supreme Courts decision in Boyton v. Virginia (1960)  declared that racial segregation in public transportation was illegal. These " Freedom Riders" wanted to be the first to test this ruling out.They were on a "journey of reconciliation" to travel through the south and publicly stand against the racism that prevailed throughout the nation.

   

  As the buses reached Alabama, much violence ensued. The riders were met by angry mobs in Anniston and Birmingham. Their tires were slashed, and one bus was bombed and burned to the ground. As the riders escaped the bus, they were beaten with baseball bats, iron pipes and bicycle chains. Despite intense harassment, other courageous riders took new buses to continue the journey. Some were jailed, others were almost killed, but through it all they did not give up hope. They willingly laid down their lives to pay a high pray for justice.  

   

  Now, 50 years later, in the summer of 2010, another group is boarding a bus for freedom. This time for the freedom of the unborn child and their right to life.

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• Nature's God - Part 3

  By Susan Tyrrel • June 28, 2010 12:47 PM

  Part III-Birth pangs bring forth labor

   

  Judgment isn’t a issue any of us like to look at closely. Let’s face it; we probably were drawn to Jesus because of His mercy. Most of us have grown up hearing how there’s nothing we can do to separate us from God. That’s true, but very often the Western church has forgotten the very important tag at the end—as long as we repent. There’s no salvation outside of repentance, and there’s no hope for a nation outside of it either. It’s not a reflection on God’s character that we are a culture pressing towards judgment; it’s a reflection on our character as a people.

   

  In this series I’ve looked at the oil spill, earthquakes and the possibility of environmental damage as a result of our sin. Whether we encase the words in judgment (God’s anger poured out directly) or we encase it consequence (we pollute the land with dangerous carcinogens and the atmosphere is hurt), the idea is from the same root: Sin has consequences.

   

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• Nature's God - Part 2

  By Susan Tyrrel • June 25, 2010 11:41 AM

  Part II- The Birth Pains

   

  Recently I wrote a series on the fetal research industry, which explained where a lot of aborted babies ended up—in a research lab. However, there is more to it than that. Those lab remains, as well as the babies not used in research, have to be disposed of properly (or should be). As the news this year has been flooded with earthquakes and the oil spill, devastating the land and seas, I began to look at the biblical consequences of bloodshed upon a land. If the spiritual and the natural meet, what could that look like?

   

  Technically, the remains of the baby are disposed of as organic medical materials  or medical waste. While we have heard stories such as the babies in a river in China and other horrific examples, there is allegedly a protocol, which involves incineration. I realize this sounds horrifying. It should because it is.

   

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• Nature's God

  By Susan Tyrrel • June 24, 2010 12:30 PM

  Part I- A Time for Mercy

  It wasn’t that long ago that a Muslim cleric endured much ire and ridicule for making a statement that women who dressed indecently increased earthquakes. Unfortunately, his statement got linked together with Christian leader Pat Robertson’s statementthat the earthquake in Haiti was the judgment of God, and suddenly any religious leaders proclaiming judgment were taboo. Right or wrong, there was no allowance for anything so cruel, they said. Recently, undertones of judgment have risen again as people have speculated what could have been the root of such a massive oil spill that no man, apparently, can seal. While the accusations have been more freely hurled at BP, this time an interesting phenomena occurred—political leaders decided to call on God.

  As oil continued to spill into the Gulf, Louisiana officials, on Father’s Day, issued a cry to the Father of creation. Lawmakers took a vote and unanimously agreed on a day of prayer for the state. State Senator, Robert Adley said, "Thus far efforts made by mortals to try to solve the crisis have been to no avail. It is clearly time for a miracle for us."

  Perhaps the oil spill is a perfect, natural example of the fact we can affect our environment. In this case, it’s been tragic, devastating the waters, wildlife, lives, and livelihood. And with all the anger directed at BP, no one questions that we control our environment; it’s a very natural picture of this. But behind the scenes many ask quietly if there is any spiritual connection. The natural and the spiritual parallel, so what does this mean? Are oil spills, earthquakes, and other natural disasters really judgment? And if they are, will American really judged for its holocaust of abortion?

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• Beyond Partisan Agendas

  By Susan Tyrrel • May 14, 2010 11:24 AM

  After hearing the announcement that former first lady Laura Bush supported abortion, my heart was grieved. The fact is, many of us have probably been guilty of living out a sort of comparison-contrast essay between the Obama and Bush administrations. Laura Bush’s announcement, which she notes differs from her husband’s, doesn’t compute with our partisan agendas...

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• Today Is A National Day Of Prayer

  By Susan Tyrrel • May 10, 2010 01:48 PM

  Today is a national day of prayer. If you’re saying “wait, that was last week,” then that’s the whole point. On May 6, most of the people in this nation who call themselves Christians probably said a prayer for the nation and possibly even attended a prayer gathering in their cities. There was a national excitement and fervor, and this was further fueled by the controversy over Franklin Graham being disinvited to pray at the Pentagon, as well as Judge Crabb in WI who called the day unconstitutional. But that’s not good enough.  
  
  We serve a God who tells us to ask (James 4:2; Matthew 7:7—the verb tense here means to keep on asking). On the National Day of Prayer, it’s actually cool to pray but what do we do when it’s not? Are we committed to pray for life and justice, or are we responding only to trends?

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• A Tale Of Two Mangers

  By Susan Tyrrel • April 28, 2010 01:32 PM

  Five hundred yards from where Jesus was born in Bethlehem sits the Holy Family Hospital. It was known as a rescuer of orphans who, by all accounts, should have been killed if their parents had listened to their culture.
  
  This was where my life began.
  
  Many are fascinated by the fact I was born in Bethlehem. When I was young, they asked, predictably, “was it in a manger?” A couple years ago, I found out the answer was yes. They called the area where the babies were kept, the crèche, or manger. Today, it’s a full maternity hospital, but when I was born, the crèche was a place for abandoned children. One story said:

  “The ‘La Crèche,’ as the orphanage is called, is committed to the care of children, most of whom are illegitimate and rejected by Palestinian families, ‘ashamed’ of a daughter’s pregnancy out of wedlock.”

  I’ve have had brief email correspondence with Sister Sophie, the nun in charge who told me I was “placed in the crèche.” Otherwise, I was met with stunning replies from government offices in Jordan, where my adoption was processed. One wrote an official letter, saying if my birth were discovered, even now, “great harm” would come to my mother. The tone was so matter of fact, that I believed it.

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• Unspotted From The World

  By Susan Tyrrel • April 26, 2010 12:17 PM

  Last week I wrote about adoption. Saturday I read this article on adoption, in which Kay Warren, wife of megachurch pastor Rick Warren, asserts that not being actively involved in adoption might mean you aren’t a Christian at all. Warren’s assertions are bold, but they are also biblical. She addresses an important scriptures on Life, James 1:27:

  “Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.”

  Most of us know the first part of that verse, but we tend to not discuss the last part. How does caring for orphans and widows keep us unspotted from the world?

  Warren says:

  "It has nothing to do with personality, it has nothing to do with spiritual gifts, it has nothing to do with economic status, it has nothing to do with your season in life," she stressed. "It has to do with accepting the responsibility that God will one day hold us accountable."

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• Social Justice vs. Abortion

  By Susan Tyrrel • April 22, 2010 03:38 PM

  This week I wrote a blog on the charities American Idol was funding on its “Idol Gives Back” show, noting that at least two of these charities funded abortion directly and believe this funding is a basic human right in the cure for poverty. In the response, which was significant, a common argument arose and that is my concern about this whole issue . We have made it, at times in the church, even, into an either/or fallacy of logic. This logic is what is setting us up for a false social justice movement which compromises Jesus while using His name.
  
  Since I have been involved with the fight against abortion I have had many discussions of this nature, and they usually end up with me being labeled an uncaring, insincere Christian if I bypass any opportunity at all to help the poor, even if the opportunity would support abortion.

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• Redux: The Passover Lamb and the Great High Priest

  By Ian Kelly • April 02, 2010 05:06 PM

  The blood that He shed has made a way for us! He is both our Passover Lamb and the Sacrifice of Atonement. Two Jewish holy days came together in Jesus. The Passover celebrates the deliverance of the Hebrews from the bondage of slavery in Egypt. The Day of Atonement was set up for the high priests to present blood for the sins of the people. Jesus presented his own perfect blood in the heavenly tabernacle as our Great High Priest.

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• The Cadence Of Justice

  By Ian Kelly • March 22, 2010 03:52 PM

  

  Last night, Congress passed the Health Care legislation 219-212. To be sure, there are some good things in the bill and some bad. Regardless, the question being asked by the readers of this blog as well as the pro-life community is: What now?

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• Circus Of Distortion

  By Susan Tyrrel • March 18, 2010 04:21 PM

  As the health care debate progresses, it seems that some who like to call themselves pro-life are looking into those funky funhouse mirrors and seeing distortion as reality...

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• Remember America

  By Christina Martin • March 15, 2010 04:53 PM

  This health care bill will change the face of America. Some may welcome this change, believing it will be a benefit to our nation. They assume it will get us closer to our goals of reaching the needy and providing for the poor. Perhaps in a measure this is true. I am not saying there can be absolutely no potential benefit from this bill. However, I will say this; I do believe time will prove this bill is more damaging to America than we will ever know. A bill that is being paraded as helpful is in reality, destructive to the core of who we are as a nation...

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• Which One Will You Worship?

  By Susan Tyrrel • March 05, 2010 02:32 PM

  One of the problems with the atrocity of abortion and the attitude we have toward it is our cultural desensitization of the Bible. We talk often about how abortion is a term that’s lost its meaning to many, but we neglect the undertones that drive abortion, which are financial. The classic parallel Scriptures in Matthew 6:24 and Luke 16:13 are ones most of us have heard since we were children:  “No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.” (Luke 16:13) We’ve grown up knowing worshiping money instead of God is bad, and we don’t do it. Do we?
  
  Mammon can’t simply be translated money, as we often use it. It’s about more than money. Mammon was actually the god of riches. The word itself encompasses more than just how much money we have, but it also places value on wealth, possessions, and our heart toward these things.

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• Abortion Could Spell Doom For Health Care

  By Ian Kelly • March 03, 2010 12:11 PM

  This is a follow up to this morning's Health Care Is Going Nuclear post.

  Via The Daily Caller - Republicans on Capitol Hill said Tuesday evening they are confident that a key bloc of pro-life House Democrats who voted for President Obama’s health-care reform last fall will vote against it now, as the White House tries to push a bill across the finish line.
  
  Such resistance from even a few of about a dozen committed pro-life Democrats would almost certainly doom a health-care bill. It is not the only challenge complicating Obama’s attempt to pass a bill, but could be the biggest.

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• My Plea To Black America

  By Christina Martin • December 15, 2009 01:37 PM

  As an African American woman, abortion survivor and general lover of mankind, I have to say that I am outraged over what is happening in Houston, TX right now. Even now as I write this the 2nd largest abortion facility in the world is being constructed in our nation. This is atrocious beyond words. What's particularly grievous to me is the fact that this death-center is being built right in the middle of 4 minority neighborhoods. Three of these neighborhoods have an average 85% Hispanic population and the fourth is 80% Black American. Planned Parenthood founder, Margaret Sanger's agenda from the start of her organization, was to use birth control and abortion to bring about black genocide.

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• Houston, We have A Problem

  By Matt Lockett • December 13, 2009 12:30 PM

  The second largest abortion clinic in the world is being built at this present moment in Houston, Texas. This six-story Planned Parenthood abortion "Super Center" is right in the middle of four (4) minority neighborhoods. Three average to 85% Latino in population and the other is 85% Black American. Planned Parenthood is targeting these minority pro-family communities, both for their finances and the restriction of their populations. But, there is a voice rising out of Houston and out of Texas, declaring, "We don't want this in our neighborhoods!"

  On Martin Luther King Jr.'s holiday, January 18th, 2010, thousands are gathering to march against this Goliath to pray, fast, and peacefully siege this massive injustice in the spirit of that great liberator Martin Luther King Jr. This is a great hour for the Hispanic pro-LIFE people, Catholic and Evangelical, to raise their voices against abortion and for adoption. Public opinion over abortion is shifting radically in America to pro-LIFE at the same time this facility is exalting itself above the humble and oppressed.

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• The Road to Houston-Pt 1

  By Matt Lockett • December 10, 2009 05:00 PM

  Right now in Houston, TX Planned Parenthood is building the 2nd largest abortion facility in the world. This must not go unchallenged. Come along for a ride with us on The Road to Houston.

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• Surprising Opposition

  By Susan Tyrrel • December 10, 2009 11:49 AM

  While we have known that some Christian denominations have swayed to a liberal side on issues such as abortion, even the United Methodists have now joined the ranks of publicly petitioning against the very amendment we cry out to God and to our nation’s leaders to support. This letter to the Senate appeared Monday and is a disturbing reflection of a tolerant religious spirit that is sweeping across Christianity. The amendment, once again, doesn’t even take away abortion; it simply means we don’t have to pay for it. Some people within the streams of Christianity now feel that we should not limit abortion at all:

  The groups say their position is that there is a "social and moral obligation to ensure access to" abortions "at every stage in an individual’s life."
  

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• China Report- Mind Numbing

  By Matt Lockett • July 30, 2009 02:28 PM

  FoxNews released a report today stating that China currently performs a mind-numbing 13 million abortions per year. In addition to that approximately 10 million abortion pills are sold each year.

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• John Stephen

  By Ian Kelly • July 01, 2009 03:38 PM

  Heather was eight months pregnant with a precious little boy when another woman took their lives by kidnapping Heather, and attempting to remove the baby from her womb by cutting open her belly.

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• Sotomayor Interviews

  By Ian Kelly • June 02, 2009 03:42 PM

  Supreme Court justice nominee, Sotomayor, starts her interviews today.

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• Mr. Obama, We Agree.

  By Ian Kelly • May 08, 2009 04:21 PM

  That, I think is the kind of justice that I’m looking for — somebody who respects the law, doesn’t think that they should be making law ... but also has a sense of what’s happening in the real world and recognizes that one of the roles of the courts is to protect people who don’t have a voice.

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• Blast From The Past

  By Ian Kelly • April 15, 2009 04:39 PM

  That only a few, under any circumstances, protest against the injustice of long-established laws and customs, does not disprove the fact of the oppressions, while the satisfaction of the many, if real only proves their apathy and deeper degradation.

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• EMERGENCY PRAYER for Tiller Trial (Updated)

  By Craig Kuhns • March 26, 2009 10:47 AM

  Please listen to this brief recorded message from Troy Newman together with Pat Mahoney. Troy calls for emergency prayer today (and particularly this morning) concerning the jury and instructions for their deliberation.

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• Urgent Prayer For Historic "Tiller Trial" In Wichita

  By Ian Kelly • March 19, 2009 11:28 AM

   Matt Lockett, Executive Director of Bound4LIFE, and Rev. Patrick Mahoney, Director of the Christian Defense Coalition, call for urgent prayer as well as, for all who can, to travel to Wichita, KS, to pray during the George Tiller trial.

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• Wait, Is 'Blog' Even a Real Word?

  By Levi Bethune • March 12, 2009 01:58 PM

  In this blog series entitled "Social Networking for Social Justice", I'm explaining several different social media tools, and how they can be implemented to help drive, and support organizations such as Bound4LIFE.

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• IHOP Tallahassee to host B4L Conf 3/13-14

  By Matt Lockett • March 04, 2009 03:53 PM

  IHOP Tallahassee will be hosting a Bound4LIFE Conference March 13-14 with Matt Lockett.

  "We are living in profoundly significant days, whether we realize it or not, that are determining the greater course of our nation's future. It is vital that we rightly respond to God's heart for the nation and the ending of abortion right now. I would like to personally invite everyone in the greater Tallahassee, FL area to attend these meetings." -Matt Lockett

  Conference Times:
  Friday March 13th - 7:00 PM to Midnight
  Saturday March 14th - 10:00 AM to Noon
  Silent Prayer Siege - Saturday, 1:00 - 3:00 PM
  
  PLEASE REGISTER TO ATTEND - CONFERENCE IS FREE

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• Block Ultra-Liberal Justice Nominees

  By Matt Lockett • February 13, 2009 01:32 PM

  Yesterday I gave a brief overview of David Ogden, President Obama's nomination for Deputy Attorney General, in our weekly Live Qik broadcast "Inside Bound4LIFE 2/12/09." In it I discussed the need to resist this appointment to the #2 seat in the Justice Department based on his long career defending the porn industry (including child pornography) and aggressive posture against what he calls "moral majority types."

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• A Private Matter

  By Ian Kelly • February 10, 2009 03:54 PM

  If, abortion is a private matter than why should the public have to pay for it?

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