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• I'm Not Angry, I'm Hopeful

  By Ian Kelly • September 01, 2010 12:59 PM

  Standing outside an abortion clinic or even the Supreme Court can attract some fanciful name calling. The jest, however, is that I (and by association the rest of the pro-life movement) am crazy, rabid, angry and violent.

  I understand that there are some people in the pro-life movement that are, most likely, clinically insane. This does not, however, define the entire movement.

  If we were to define movements by the act of single person than may I suggest we take a look at this, as well:

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• Ryan's Story

  By Christina Martin • August 20, 2010 02:30 PM

  Every little girl has a dream. Andrea's dream was to take care of kids, who had no one to care for them. Her parent's separated when she little and she was put in a children's home for a year. Although her parents were able to visit her, she saw many lonely kids whose parents couldn't see them. She decided that when got older and married, she would help kids who didn't have anyone to care for them.

  Andrea grew up, got married to Henry Bomberger, and never forgot her childhood dream.

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• Blush

  By Jess Clark • August 18, 2010 11:46 AM

  

  Just the sound of walking
  Shoes scraping against asphalt
  Strollers whisking past, full of life
  Overhead, behind and before us, angels sing Holy.
  
  We are silent, because we can hear children screaming
  We are silent, because their voice is denied
  We are silent, because broken hearts make no sound
  Hear our silent screams, you kings.
  You will answer for every drop of blood.

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• "Come Now, Let Us Reason Together"

  By Ian Kelly • August 17, 2010 04:09 PM

  I'd like to being this post by introducing you to a new commenter on this blog. While I'm afraid I don't know his real name yet I do know that he is a volunteer escort for women seeking an abortion and/or other services an abortion clinic has to offer. Thus he goes by the name, Volunteer in the comments section.

  My point in bringing attention to our new friend is that while we here at Bound4LIFE clearly disagree with Volunteer's abortion stance we are indeed able talk politely with each other and debate without the conversation breaking down. For this I am grateful. I invite everyone in our fantastic community to welcome Volunteer and extend to him the same courtesy he has given us.

  This brings me to the point of this post: Civility.

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• With Ethics Like This, Who Needs Immorality?

  By Susan Tyrrel • August 16, 2010 02:53 PM

  According to this guy, the best option for some kids is to just kill ‘em. Princeton bioethics professor Peter Singer thinks that kids who need a lot of operations due to conditions or disease might be better off dead.

  "The difficult decision is whether you want this infant to live or not," says Singer. "That should be a decision for the parents and doctors to make on the basis of the fullest possible information about what the condition is. But once you’ve made that decision, it should be permissible to make sure that baby dies swiftly and humanely."

  That’s right. Singer, the “ethicist” thinks that killing a child can be humane—as long as you kill him or her quickly.

  Notice his language: baby dies. That’s usually the language you hear on the pro-life side. We talk about how babies should not be killed and the pro-aborts insist “it’s not a baby.” Singer doesn’t even call a baby a fetus; he calls babies what they are, and justifies murdering them, outside the womb.

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• UNC Does A U-Turn On Abortion Coverage Mandate

  By Ian Kelly • August 13, 2010 05:21 PM

  It's amazing what a little media coverage can do. A few days ago Students for Life called foul and blew the whistle on the North Carolina Board of Directors:

  ...this fall the North Carolina Board of Governors is requiring all students who are enrolled in a University of North Carolina public institution to have health insurance.

  Students who do not already have private health insurance are required to buy a state selected policy from Pearce & Pearce, Inc. This mandated policy covers up to $500 toward elective abortions and has 80% PPO coverage for elective abortions.

  The Pearce & Pearce policy costs students $744 per year or $375 per semester. The State of North Carolina will not be paying into the policy; rather, the students who are required to purchase the insurance will be required to pay the entire cost.

  As a result, North Carolina students will be forced to pay for elective abortions, regardless of their personal views on the issue.

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• Abortion Clinic Now A Center For Pregnant Teens

  By Ian Kelly • August 09, 2010 02:13 PM

  The amazing hope we have in Christ is that he has the power to transform us. This transformation can happen to a person, a community, or an entire society. No one and nothing can escape His divine ability to "make all things new", to bring life from death and to "call those things that are not as though they are."

  That get's us to this story about an abortion clinic that was transformed into a facility for pregnant teens:

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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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• Twins Save Mom's Life By Kicking Loose A Tumor While In The Womb

  By Ian Kelly • July 30, 2010 11:30 AM

  

  Yesterday I blogged about how an unborn baby saved his mom's life by kicking in her womb. Well, much to my amazement, this has happened before:

  Unknown to her, Mrs Stepney, 35, had developed cervical cancer. Her unborn twins' constant kicking in the womb actually managed to dislodge the tumour.

  It was only when Mrs Stepney was taken to hospital with a suspected miscarriage that doctors realised she had cancer.

  They told her the babies had saved her life. Without them, the cancer may not have been discovered until it was too late.

  Then came another bombshell. In order to treat the cancer, she needed immediate chemotherapy and a hysterectomy, which would mean terminating the pregnancy.

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• Unborn Baby Saves Mom's Life By Kicking In Womb!

  By Ian Kelly • July 29, 2010 01:30 PM

  

  This is just wild:

  You may call it a miracle - a baby saved his mother's life before he was even born just by kicking in the womb only to alert doctors of a tumour inside.

  Mother-to-be 26-year-old Claire feared she was losing him 18 weeks into the pregnancy. But, doctors discovered the "miscarriage" was actually a tumour of the womb -- which her unborn son had kicked free, the 'News of the World' reported.

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• More Proof Babies Can Survive At 23 Weeks

  By Ian Kelly • July 21, 2010 03:45 PM

  

  I want to remind you of this story from the UK:

  Attempts to cut the upper limit for abortions from 24 to 22 weeks have been rejected by MPs after a free vote.

  Tory MP Nadine Dorries, a former nurse who proposed a 20-week limit, said: "There comes a point when it has to be said this baby has a right to life."

  But her plan was defeated by 332 votes to 190. A move to bring in a 22-week limit was opposed by 304 votes to 233.
  Pro-choice campaigners said there was no scientific evidence to justify a cut in the limit.

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• Abortion Proponent Asks: Why Would God Care About Abortion?

  By Ian Kelly • July 14, 2010 12:43 PM

  

  From the Abortioneers:

  I have a confession. I'm having a mini - tiny even - crisis. OK. "Crisis" is a bit dramatic; but I could totally use your help. The dilemma: I can hardly relate to clients who worry about god and if this god is going to forgive them for their abortion(s).

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  I don't understand. I just want to say to said bright, capable young woman, "You know. I hate to break it to ya, but there is no god. Or if there is a god, this god is sooooo not going to care about if you have an abortion or not. If there's a god, it might be a teensy bit more caught up with more important matters like, um, global warming, civil wars across the world, genocides. That sort of thing." Yet, I can't bring myself to say that (at least not to her), because....well, she believes in some god who is going to care if she has an abortion or not.

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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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• Protest Then Lunch...

  By Ian Kelly • June 25, 2010 04:05 PM

  I can assure you that Planned Parenthood would not extend me this same courtesy:

  Lifelong picketer Bill Baird, sometimes called the father of the abortion rights movement, spent Thursday fighting for the right to protest the very convention for which he had signed up.

  Mr. Baird, 78, who once ran the nation's first abortion clinic, was among those attending the National Right to Life Convention at the Hyatt Regency Pittsburgh International Airport on Thursday. A regular attendee, his routine for decades has been to picket from 11:30 to noon on behalf of abortion rights, then join his rivals for lunch inside.

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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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• Love Is The Better Way

  By Ian Kelly • June 23, 2010 11:13 AM

  Yesterday, I blogged about how aborting a child conceived out of rape is nothing short of violence multiplying violence. In response to this story, a mother ("Lifer") posted this amazing story of love and hope in the comments section:

  I am the mother of a child who was almost aborted due to the "counseling" given at the abortion clinic. My daughter's birth mom was raped at 13. She was taken to the clinic where she spent (according to her mother) approximately 6 hours. During this time she was given an ultrasound, but not permitted to see the screen.

  She was counseled by staff, including a "doctor" who told her at 20 wks, her baby wasn't formed yet. When she asked about adoption, she was told, "No one will want a bi-racial, rapist's baby". When she still hesitated, they told her if she did not consent to the abortion, she would die (due to her age). So, believing she would die giving birth to a baby no one would want, she gave in & they started to manually dilate her cervix with metal rods for a D&E. She was awake because her mother wasn't told to bring enough money to cover general anesthesia. During the painful dilation process, she got upset & the abortionist stopped & told her mom "she is making my job too difficult" and had them reschedule to allow the mother to get more money.

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• Kagan, Cloning And Complicity

  By Susan Tyrrel • June 17, 2010 04:06 PM

  Those who only know me from my writing might think me to be a quiet person who sits inside writing all day. But I’m not. I tame my big mouth through my writing but this week it takes all that I have in me not to get a megaphone and climb to the top of tallest building in Washington, DC and yell “Don’t do it!”
  
  I’m talking about Elena Kagan, President Obama’s current Supreme Court nominee. I wrote about this a bit last week. As the Clinton Library released the Kagan papers, we saw that she was actually the main counsel behind advising Bill Clinton on the laws regarding cloning. To the average person reading these papers, it looks like Kagan was telling Clinton to support a legislative ban on human cloning. That’s sort of true, in Kagan-ese.
  
  What she actually says is that she thinks he should support a ban on cloning “entire human beings.”

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• Labor Of Love

  By Christina Martin • June 16, 2010 03:13 PM

  Love is a compelling force. It should be the main motivator for all we do and say in this life. I was recently meditating on 1 Corinthians Chapter 13. These verses declares the attributes of love. It speaks of love as patient, kind, without envy, pride or boasting. Love doesn't rejoice in evil, but always protects, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.

  One morning I was driving to a siege when I began to wonder, "Why am I doing this"? I took a moment and considered what I do. I pray for the unborn, speak to others about abortion, write, preach, and share the truth about God's view of life whenever I can.  I've done this for five years and it's become normal to me, a consistent, familiar part of my life. People know that I have a heart for the unborn, and standing for the ending of abortion is something that is expected of me. Yet that morning I questioned, " What is driving me to continue in this work"? Is it something I do out of routine, religious obligation, or fear that God and others might be disappointed with me if I stopped?

  Through the midst of the pondering and soul searching, a truth surfaced in my heart. I do it for love. Oh, don't get me wrong. My motives are mixed, all of ours are. Yet deep down, I know I stand for LIFE because I love people.

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• Planned Parenthood Loathes "Choose Life" Plates

  By Ian Kelly • June 16, 2010 11:53 AM

  

  Have you seen these license plates before? They are a great way to support the pro-life cause as well as donate money to state pro-life organizations. Planned Parenthood, however, absolutely loathes the idea of these plates. And not just because the plates are pro-life. They oppose the idea of money from government issued plates going toward pro-life groups. This opposition, however, is high hypocrisy as Pundit House clearly spells out:

   

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• When The Past Becomes The Future

  By Susan Tyrrel • June 14, 2010 02:53 PM

  Last week I wrote a series for Bound4LIFE on abortion’s financial industry and its connections to the holocaust, which took me back a decade. In 2000 I wrote my master’s thesis, which happened to be on children's literature, using the novels Number the Stars and The Giver. The former is a beautiful story set in the Danish resistance in the Holocaust, the is latter a futuristic tale where society neutralizes everyone, getting rid of anything deemed inferior for the sake of the larger community. The title of my thesis was Hurtling Forward into the Past. The point I asserted was that if we continued in our present culture we would literally march forward into the past by creating a society in which we had a new and bigger holocaust because it would no longer be limited to only one people group.
  
  Writing that thesis occurred in the same season as my revelation of real Christianity as it crashed against secular humanism in academia. Graduate school gave me a master’s degree, but it felt more like it was in theology than English. I was challenged, and I found my faith in my secular university. Writing that thesis taught me what I live by now; you have to know what you believe and why you believe it before it is challenged, or it won’t survive. The family in the Holocaust novel already has that firm foundation and they do not hesitate to join the resistance movement. In the futuristic novel, the community has been desensitized by accepting things without challenge. No one can remember back to the time when people thought and acted freely. They have become a non-thinking people, subject to the control of very nice but inwardly wicked rulers.

   

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• The Game Of Life

  By Susan Tyrrel • June 10, 2010 11:37 AM

  We hear often of the dangers of online games and internet addictions, but I never thought of it as a pro-life issue until I read this tragic story and realized how easily such actions could occur.

  Three-month-old Kim Sa-rang died of malnutrition in September while her parents were engaged in 12-hour sessions of Prius Online. In the 3-D fantasy game, players nurture an online girl who gains magical powers as she grows.

  While this seems isolated, I would argue that in our era, it’s probably not. Like car crashes, we only hear of the ones that are bad.  The Bible has much to say about the destructive power of imagination and fantasy. While it’s not talking about neglecting your children while playing video games, the signs of the times are clear. We are a people fascinated by entertainment, often to the detriment of truth. We like what tickles our ears and stirs our excitement. In this case, it’s cost a baby her life as the parents, ironically, raise a fake little girl on a computer screen.

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• The Space Between Life And Death

  By Christina Martin • June 09, 2010 12:17 PM

  Most of us are familiar with Ezekiel 22:30, the verse is frequently quoted from pulpits and in prayer meetings. " God is looking for a man to stand in gap on behalf of the land, so He will not destroy it".

  We hear that scripture and eagerly shake our heads in agreement. "Yes", we say, "We must stand in the gap, we must be faithful to pray".

  Watching the video tape of Rev. Mahoney's recent arrest outside of a Planned Parenthood in D.C, brought this question to mind. What if the "gap" is sometimes more than a spiritual position before God, but literally a physical location, perhaps a tiny space of sidewalk, right in front of a chamber of death?

  It is easy to get caught up in arguments about private and public space, property lines and boundaries. We can be so concerned about being " politically correct" and observant to the laws of the land, that we forget the true issue at hand.

  We lose sight of what is occurring before our eyes. There are children being murdered daily in buildings throughout our nation. Behind closed doors, and fences, little children are having their lives sucked away. Do we understand the magnitude of this? If we did truly see it for what it was, I doubt we would get offended when a man desires to pray in front of a clinic, even if it costs him his liberty.

  If there was a building in our town that was slaughtering toddlers, or massacring puppies, we would all be up in arms. There would be few arguments about space and lines. Activists would be lining around the block, protesting and demanding it's closing. The uproar would be loud and consistent, until the place closed down.

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• Industry Of Death - Part 6

  By Susan Tyrrel • June 08, 2010 11:09 AM

  Conclusion - Hurtling forward into the past
  

   

  Last December I had a dream I still vividly recall. In it, I went down the road to a major drug store chain to buy things like toothpaste and shampoo, but there was a side room. It wasn’t until I heard the sucking sound and saw the secretive clerk that I realized they were doing abortions with the same ease someone bought nail polish, and the clerk was disposing of the remains.

  Writing this series has brought that dream to the surface. After my research, the bulk of which was academic and scientific, I imagine that my dream could be a reality in the near future. Why couldn’t it? Drug stores have “convenience clinics.” Abortion is legal. And we have learned that even Congress wouldn’t stop body parts selling. Just this past week we found a late-term abortion clinic in FL offering a special $50 off a late term abortion if the customer comes on Sunday.

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• Industry Of Death - Part 5

  By Susan Tyrrel • June 07, 2010 02:40 PM

  Part V - America's Nuremberg

   

  “Some research may, by necessity, involve deception.” This line doesn’t come from the villain’s secret lab in an old movie, rather it comes from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston’s (UTHSC-H) research handbook. The Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects (CPHS) covers research that involves human participants. Institutions receiving federal funds must have an Internal Review Board (IRB) even for the non-funded research. As UTHSC-H’s link above explains, this review process has its origins in the Holocaust. The Nuremberg trials actually were a catalyst in ensuring that medical research was ethical; hence, the creation of the Nuremberg Code.

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• Industry Of Death - Part 4

  By Susan Tyrrel • June 04, 2010 11:55 AM

  Part IV - From clone to cadaver
  

   

  Until Dolly the Sheep made world headlines in 1996, cloning was an issue we reserved for sci-fi stories. Then suddenly we were presented with the reality of the viability of cloning. And the abortion industry already knew it. Cloning makes for great movies about doppelgangers, but in the real world, cloning is planned abortion.
  
  As 2004 opened, New Jersey passed a frightening law that essentially allowed human cloning of an embryo to be implanted in the womb as long as the baby was aborted. Some believe this restriction on growing a new life would actually result in fetal farming by cloning the baby and then killing it before birth and taking the fetal remains for research. Although the bill’s text bans the sale of humans, it allows for “reasonable” payment of service. Ethicist Robert P. George from Princeton University, was one of several on a presidential ethics council who addressed this concern to the governor of New Jersey who wrote:

  Although the legislation purports to ban trafficking in fetal body parts for "valuable consideration," it expressly permits "reasonable payment" for "removal, processing, disposal, preservation, quality control, storage, transplantation, or implantation of embryonic or cadaveric fetal tissue." This is a virtual invitation to cloning entrepreneurs to conduct …what would amount to fetal farming for research...

   

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• Heads Up: State Elections Matter

  By Ian Kelly • June 03, 2010 03:21 PM

  

  Life News reports:

  Alaska voters this August will have the opportunity to vote on a pro-life ballot measure that would allow parents to know when their minor daughters are considering an abortion. If enacted, the law would reduce teen abortions by protecting parental rights to help their children find better alternatives.
  
  The Alaska Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a trial court’s finding that petitions for a parental notification initiative do not contain confusing and misleading language and are therefore valid.
  
  The decision means that the parental notification measure will go on the ballot for voter approval during the August 24 primary despite opposition from Planned Parenthood.

  What does this have to do with state elections? Everything.

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• Industry Of Death - Part 3

  By Susan Tyrrel • June 03, 2010 11:15 AM

  Part III- Babies in the lab
  

  The last couple blogs we’ve been looking at some of the underside of the abortion industry that goes beyond the insidious ways of Planned Parenthood and into the universities, medical labs, and even our bodies. Much of this was highlighted through current research by Vicki Evans, although aspects of this have been known by many for some time. One aspect that Evans addresses is the subject of fetus farming. The name itself plants a horrific image in our minds, and it should because it’s exactly what it sounds like, literally creating life to destroy it. The tentacles of this industry of death extend throughout all of society and have roots in stem cell research. Many of us have heard about this and even ethical applications of it, but the way in which stem cells play into the abortion industry are the underpinnings of fetus farming.

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• Industry Of Death - Part 2

  By Susan Tyrrel • June 02, 2010 11:17 AM

  Part II - When improving our lives costs the lives of the unborn

  Are you on medication? Have you had a vaccine? Do you use wrinkle cream? Chances are you may have part of an aborted baby in you. In 1980 the Bayh-Doyle Act created the right for universities to patent federally-funded research and then to grant exclusive license to drug companies ( Vicki Evans 42). Repeatedly cited as some of the highest profiting industries, the pharmaceutical companies are benefiting vastly off of abortion and have great power and control over resources in this nation. Evans points out that “The drug companies through their lobbying arm, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), had become one of the most powerful political forces in the country” ( Evans 43).

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• Nancy Pelosi And Her Favorite Word...

  By Ian Kelly • June 01, 2010 03:00 PM

  I'm not entirely sure on what she thinks Jesus may be thinking about partial-birth abortion but she is aware that she will have to give an account of her life, including, her support of abortion rights.

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• Industry Of Death - Part 1

  By Susan Tyrrel • June 01, 2010 12:36 PM

  Part I - When Abortion and Human Trafficking Meet

  Often in the pro-life movement we think of abortion as an isolated thing. We see it as the debate between those who know life begins at conception and those who think abortion is choice, but the depths of this industry lead so much further into darkness than we can imagine.  Recently, a disturbing but substantiated piece of research was presented to me. So alarming were the findings that I found my cries for mercy for our nation more desperate than ever.

  Vicki Evans, Respect Life coordinator for the Archdiocese of San Francisco's Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns wrote her thesis last year on the side of the abortion industry pro-aborts don’t want us to discuss: The financial side. I encourage you to take time to actually read a PDF of this research. I’ve read it. It’s credible and it’s terrifying.

  Fetal research is a profitable industry that goes far beyond the abortion clinics themselves. While we know that Planned Parenthood and other abortion clinics profit nicely off abortions, what happens when those babies are killed is more alarming. Technically, fetuses are reported to be disposed of as organic medical waste, but Evans points out that that doesn’t always happen and cites that “Stericycle, the largest medical waste disposal company in the country, refuses to dispose of fetal remains due to a clause in their drivers’ labor contract that allows the drivers to refuse to accept fetal waste. Typically, cremation of the remains takes place or they are released into the sewage system” (27).

  Evans goes on to cite a study by Life Dynamics regarding wholesaling fetuses:

  Three participants are commonly involved---the “seller,” the “buyer,” and the “wholesaler.”  The wholesaler (or middleman) enters into a financial agreement with an abortion clinic (the seller) to pay a monthly “site-fee”, comparable to rent, to the clinic. In exchange, the wholesaler is allowed to position a retrieval agent inside the clinic, where he is given access to the dead fetuses and a workspace to harvest their parts. (27)

   

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• Being Pro-LIFE Can Be Hard

  By Ian Kelly • May 27, 2010 01:00 PM

  In a blog post entitled It's Easy to be Anti-Choice the Abortion Gang try to take the moral high ground by explaining that abortion is a hard but "right" decision:

  It’s not easy to be pro-choice. It’s not because we’re wrong to be pro-choice (as I covered in a previous post, we’re not, and it’s nothing to be ashamed of), but let’s face it, abortion is a surgery, or at the very least a medical procedure. There’s nothing warm and fuzzy about a drug addict opting to have an abortion rather than have a baby addicted to cocaine, born with brain damage, and to a mother unable to care for her – just cold, hard, reality and pragmatism...

   

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• Whales Are Persons?

  By Ian Kelly • May 24, 2010 04:48 PM

  

  Reuters reports:

  Participants at a University of Helsinki conference said ever more studies show the giant marine mammals have human-like self-awareness, an ability to communicate and organize complex societies, making them similar to some great apes.
  
  "We affirm that all cetaceans as persons have the right to life, liberty and wellbeing," they said in a declaration after a two-day meeting led by the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS).

  That people are even discussing an animals right to life while we still cannot accept that a child in the womb is a person is staggering. I am constantly amazed with how how sad and seemingly wounded one person or even a group of people can get over the death of an animal and yet thousands of children die via abortion every day!

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• Our Future

  By Ian Kelly • May 24, 2010 02:46 PM

  This video from The Radiance Foundation illustrates well the damage abortion does to us as a society. Killing, not only our children, but our future.

  From Pro-Life Campaign:

  We have no idea what the future holds for any individual. Each and every day we surprise ourselves and others with what we can accomplish. No one knows our potential. The beauty of life's journey is that so much of it is simply a mystery.

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• Pro-LIFE Momentum In Canada

  By Ian Kelly • May 18, 2010 02:31 PM

  

  Caption: Anti-abortion protesters took to Parliament Hill yesterday as part of the annual March for Life rally.

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• Designer Children Sold To The Highest Bidder

  By Susan Tyrrel • May 17, 2010 12:37 PM

  Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger whose infamous eugenics quest sought to use birth control and abortion to root out the poor and those not deemed intelligent enough, has an evil twin haunting the Ivy Leagues and seeking out only the top eggs of their brightest female students to make deposits into further the rich and more intelligent.

  Stunned, I read this article, on the income women can make for donating eggs for everything from stem-cell research to helping other women have pregnancies with “good” genes.

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• March For Life In Canada

  By Ian Kelly • May 13, 2010 03:46 PM

  

  March For Life in Canada is in full stride:

  OTTAWA — Ottawa police advise motorists to avoid the downtown core early Thursday afternoon, when the annual anti-abortion rally will take to the streets.
  
  (...)
  
  About 12,000 people are expected to travel along Wellington Street to Elgin Street, across Lisgar Street to Metcalfe Street, and across Laurier Avenue to Bank Street before returning to the Hill.

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• Missouri Passes Law Allowing Pregnant Women To Defend Unborn Child

  By Ian Kelly • May 11, 2010 12:28 PM

  Give it up for common sense law:

  The Missouri legislature has voted to give pregnant women the explicit right to defend her unborn child from attack. If Governor Jay Nixon signs the bill into law, it will make Missouri the 2nd state to protect women and their unborn children in this manner.

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• iPad Pregnancy App Shows Development Of Unborn Baby

  By Ian Kelly • May 10, 2010 04:30 PM

  Pampers has released a brilliant iPad app that clearly repudiates the pro-abortion claim that a woman's unborn child is nothing more than a "clump of cells."

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• Incompatible With Life?

  By Ian Kelly • May 07, 2010 04:06 PM

  Life News featured a heart gripping story written by former PA. Senator Rick Santorum. His perspective on the sanctity of life is uniquie as he has fought for the unborn and those typically scheduled for abortion both on and off Capitol Hill.

  "Incompatible with life." The doctor's words kept echoing in my head as I held my sobbing wife, Karen, just four days after the birth of our eighth child, Isabella Maria.
  
  Bella was born with three No. 18 chromosomes, rather than the normal two. The statistics were heartbreaking: About 90 percent of children with the disorder, known as trisomy 18, die before or during birth, and 90 percent of those who survive die within the first year.
  
  Bella was baptized that day, and then we spent every waking hour at her bedside, giving her a lifetime's worth of love and care. However, not only did she not die; she came home in just 10 days.

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• Planned Parenthood Mentions Red "LIFE" Tape

  By Ian Kelly • May 03, 2010 02:21 PM

  

  While looking around Planned Parenthood's website I stumbled upon a section called, "Anti-Choice Actions & Clinic Violence". A few entries caught my eye:

  Michigan  11/18/09  A Planned Parenthood health center observed three protesters with red tape over their mouths with the word “LIFE” written on it. They remained on the sidewalk and no confrontations occurred.

  California  06/13/09 & 06/27/09  Protesters were seen outside a Planned Parenthood health center, with red tape over their mouths.

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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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• Victim Of Rape Encourages Others To Choose Life

  By Ian Kelly • April 27, 2010 12:15 PM

  This amazing story goes along with yesterday's post - 11-Year-Old Rape Victim Wants To Keep Her Baby

  via LifeSiteNews:

  "Don't worry, you're not going to have the baby...your womb is very young....you are very weak...it's going to be a high risk pregnancy...your life is in danger....you should consider it..."

  At the age of 12 years, after having been raped by a gang in her neighborhood, Lianna Rebolledo was told she was pregnant -- and the doctors wanted her to have an abortion.

  But Rebolledo, who is now 33 years old and works at a radio station in Los Angeles, says she never even considered the possibility, and she wants others in Mexico to know that she is very happy that she chose life for her child.

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• My Kind Of Earth Day

  By Ian Kelly • April 22, 2010 11:58 AM

  

   

  The folks over at CatholicVote.org had a great idea for this Earth Day:

  Why not show the world the way Earth Day should be celebrated – by celebrating nature’s greatest gift – human life.

  Our goal is to use Earth Day to get Americans to think more deeply about what it means to truly respect the Earth and creation. Trendy environmental groups too often view humans as the enemy of nature. We believe human beings are God’s greatest creation, and the Earth’s greatest resource.

  Help us place these giant 12-foot long posters on buses, subways and trains traveling through Chicago, Seattle and San Francisco. Let’s glorify the Creator by transforming Earth Day into a celebration of His gift of life.

  Check out this video showing real-life reactions to this campaign:

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• Prenatal Non-Discrimination Ban Passes Georgia Senate

  By Christina Martin • March 30, 2010 11:27 AM

  On March 26th, 2010 the Georgia Senate passed SB-529, the Coercion and Non-discrimination ban. With 33 yes’s to 13 no’s the bill passed through the Georgia Senate and now heads to the Georgia House of Representatives. The bill is a companion to House Bill 1155, the Prenatal Non-discrimination act. The House bill is partly based upon federal legislation that Arizona’s congressman, Trent Franks, introduced in the U.S congress.
  
  This legislation seeks to make it a crime for anyone to coerce or solicit a woman to abort based on the race or sex of her child. It would also make it illegal for women to choose to abort based on those factors.

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• Let Us Learn From History

  By Ian Kelly • March 23, 2010 03:04 PM

  

  I know some people look at the Executive Order as a good idea, while most probably do not. I briefly addressed my concerns about using an Executive Order instead of law to protect our Nation's unborn, here. Today, however, I decided that a picture may do a better job of addressing the issue.

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• Time Out: Divine Flame

  By Ian Kelly • March 04, 2010 02:02 PM

  And now a break from the regular scheduled programming...

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• Baby Claire Beats Abortion Odds

  By Tiffani Edwards • March 04, 2010 12:25 PM

  A dramatic pro-life rescue recently took place in Las Vegas, after a woman who had already started the process of a late-term abortion was convinced to reverse the procedure and save her unborn child, and in the process overcame a drug addiction.
  
  The National Catholic Register reports:

  ...most pro-life activists and doctors are not aware that the process of some late-term abortions can be reversed once it has begun. But luckily for Jamie Stout and her healthy unborn baby, two pro-life activists knew this was the case and were able to reach out her and convince her that she still had a window of opportunity to stop the death of her child.

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• Nebraska Could Reshape National Abortion Policy

  By Ian Kelly • February 26, 2010 09:59 AM

  Nebraska legislators are proposing a bill on abortion that, if passed, would be the strictest in the nation and would ban most abortions after 20 weeks into a pregnancy...

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• Choosing Thomas

  By Ian Kelly • September 02, 2009 04:33 PM

  One of our chapter leaders sent us a link to the following video. Make sure to watch it all the way through to the end because what the mother says is so very profound, amazing and moving. It's a statement of love and a testament to life.

   

  Follow T.K. and Deidrea Lauxs journey after they learn that their unborn son has a genetic disorder called Trisomy 13:

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• I AM

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

  I am not my bible college study,
  
  I am not my favorite store,
  
  I am not my unique brands,
  
  I am something deeper to my core.

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• The Numbers Don't Lie

  By Matt Lockett • June 03, 2009 04:23 PM

   Bound4LIFE wants to invite you to become part of the prayer revolution to end abortion.

  Well exactly how are you supposed to do that anyway?

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• Viral Is Good, When It's Online

  By Levi Bethune • May 26, 2009 03:08 PM

  In this (potentially award-winning and health-conscious) 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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• Baby Faith

  By Craig Kuhns • May 12, 2009 03:56 PM

   Every once in a while you stumble across a story that leaves you speechless, and this, for me, is one of those stories. Meet Myah and her now 11 week old baby girl Faith.

  My name is Myah. I'm 23 years old and a single mom to a very special little girl. 

  When I was 19 weeks pregnant, I was told that my baby had no brain. This condition is known as "anencephaly." I was told that my baby was only alive because she was attached to me, but that she couldn't survive on her own. The doctor said that I could continue the pregnancy safely, but that my baby would die shortly after being born. Or I could choose to terminate the pregnancy then, which would mean being induced at 20 weeks and letting my baby die without ever seeing or holding her (I don't even want to know what they do with babies in this case). Well, to some people this would be a difficult decision, but it wasn't for me. I knew there was nothing to gain by terminating the pregnancy and I already loved my daughter more than anyone else in the world. Even if she was unconscious like the doctors said and lived for only a few seconds or minutes --even if she was stillborn --it was worth it to me. And so we began our journey...

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• How Facebook Can Promote LIFE

  By Levi Bethune • April 17, 2009 02:56 PM

  In this (wildly popular, and increasingly good-looking) 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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• Potential

  By Ian Kelly • January 28, 2009 04:20 PM

   I know this video from Catholicvote.com has made it’s way around the internet quite a bit but I feel it is still very impactful and something that I really wanted to share with those who may have not had the chance to view it.

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• What Bound4LIFE and Margaret Sanger Have in Common

  By Ian Kelly • December 18, 2008 03:11 PM

   As a follow up post to yesterdays Margaret Sanger interview I thought I would share what Sanger thought about abortion. I think it may surprise you that Bound4LIFE and Margaret Sanger have something in common. Check this out:

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• External Authority

  By Ian Kelly • December 10, 2008 02:58 PM

   Today I stumbled upon an interesting article entitled “Where is the Anti-Choice Movement Headed?” from a website calledPro-Choice Action Network. The author, Joyce Arthur, bashes pro-life individuals, calling them “religious fundamentalists” and postulates that, “one of the major characteristics of a religious fundamentalist is certitude, which involves depending on and obeying an external authority.” She of course means God and the Bible. She suggests that being “anti-choice” is like being a racist or being anti-Semitic and as such will eventually become socially unacceptable.

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• What gives? (Why we vote Pro-LIFE)

  By Ian Kelly • December 09, 2008 02:55 PM

  Bound4LIFE International has never endorsed any candidate but we absolutely do not apologize for asking people to vote pro-life. This, of course, is not always that popular of an idea.

  We recently received a question concerning our mandate to encourage people to vote for only pro-life candidates. We do not overlook issues such as poverty, drugs, abuse, and unemployment. However, we strongly believe that the abortion issue is the most important of our day just as slavery was to those who lived through those dark times. I know many are worried about our economy, and rightfully so. But think about the economic upheaval in the south due to the ending of slavery; it was disastrous, but ending slavery was the right thing to do. The toll that it took on our nation was great, but again slavery had to be ended.

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• I've Got a Bracelet Too

  By Matt Lockett • September 27, 2008 02:46 PM

  

  Last night during the Presidential debate the candidates took a moment to discuss the finer points of their bracelets. I’d like to do the same and remind the 325,000 people out there that wear the same one as me to remember their commitment.

  The simple red wristband that marks so many wrists represents a set of priorities that is unpopular to say the least. Beyond the rhetoric it calls the wearer to a standard close to the heart of God–perhaps something that all the other issues hinge on–ending the shedding of innocent blood. Those that have voluntarily taken this solemn pledge have made a sober commitment to three things.

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• Spiritual Novacaine

  By Matt Lockett • March 17, 2008 01:51 PM

  At twilight on the eve of Passover God’s people were instructed to mark their doors with blood. God said, “When I see the blood, I will pass over you.” It was a foreshadowing of the mercy that was to come for all those “under” the covering of the blood of the Jesus.

  Ezekiel 9 tells of another marking that God instructed. It’s a story of a city under siege, yet the people refuse to turn to God their only source of salvation. Angelic guards were called forward and with them came another angel carrying a writing kit. This heavenly scribe is told to search throughout the people and mark only those that grieve and lament over all the detestable things that are done. The guards followed him with destruction, and only those with the mark were passed over. How’s that for a picture of a guardian angel?

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