Posts Tagged With Planned Parenthood

  • Babies Saved Again in DC

    By Matt Lockett

    We've posted several articles here tracking with the progress of the "No Trespassing" sign the Planned Parenthood put on public property here in DC. Last Saturday's event, A Time To Stand, was a significant victory in that the city recognized that the property was in fact public and open for Christians to enter—specifically those that want to pray on site and do sidewalk counseling.

    Well here is an amazing testimony of fruit from those efforts that comes by way of a local woman named Carolyn. In fact, Carolyn was the first person threatened with arrest and made to leave several months ago after Planned Parenthood erected their fence and hung their no trespassing sign. Carolyn returned this last week to once again pray at the facility which had been a regular activity for her before the fence was built.

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  • The Scarlet A

    By Susan Tyrrel
    Although the number of pro-life people in the nation has grown to a majority, a disturbing poll shows that while 54% of Americans think abortion is morally wrong “most of the time,” as a voting issue, they still rank it below ten other issues, including economy, government ethics and immigration in their voting interest. This may show why 49% consider themselves pro-choice, conflicting the numbers.
     
    These results are profoundly disturbing, of course. To be pro-life is to defend life. Period. The second we value another issue over life, thereby subordinating it, the moment we add allowances and exceptions, we have forfeited our pro-life status. Life and death are opposites—one cannot exist with the other in this arena.
     
    Randy Alcorn points out some of these inconsistencies in a recent interview with Mark Driscoll. He discusses the debate with the Planned parenthood slogan which says “Every child a wanted child.” Alcorn notes that:
     
    The nice little bumper sticker that says, “Every child a wanted child” really means, “Every unwanted child a dead child.” Obviously that doesn’t look good on a bumper sticker, and nobody actually has a sticker that says that. But that is really what it means.

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  • A Time to Stand: My Perspective

    By Kaitlin Martinez

    Last weekend I participated in the event “A Time to Stand”. I’m sure you know the details of this project by now, but if not here’s the summary in a nutshell: several months ago Rev. Patrick Mahoney was arrested for praying on a PUBLIC SIDEWALK in front of a Planned Parenthood in Washington, DC. So we went back to peaceably pray on that same sidewalk, and possibly risk arrest, in order to assure that prayer and the first amendment were protected.

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  • Liar Liar Pants On Fire (Video)

    By Matt Lockett

    I'm not trying to be juvenile about this. Far from it. It just amazes me how Planned Parenthood can perpetuate lies to the public and still enjoy the trust of women and the government. This "No Trespassing" sign is small in comparison to something like "It's just a clump of tissue" or "Of course our financial records are in order," but it is one more lie just the same

    I did a follow up interview with Rev. Mahoney about the outcome of the event on Saturday, August 14. The lingering question now is when will Planned Parenthood remove the sign out front that they've known all along was a boldface lie?

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  • Prayer Resumes At Planned Parenthood DC (Video)(Photos)

    By Matt Lockett

    Planned Parenthood wasn't happy today. It was discovered that someone within the organization had been putting a squeeze on the city at the last minute. Something apparently happened between yesterday and today when the Corporation Council for DC and the Attorney General ruled that the sidewalk in front of Planned Parenthood is IN FACT still PUBLIC PROPERTY. There was some last minute discussion and debate between Rev. Pat Mahoney and the Commander on site. However, it was ultimately decided that there would be NO ARRESTS for anyone choosing to enter the once-off-limits property to pray.

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  • THIS JUST IN- DC PP Property Declared Public

    By Matt Lockett

    On the eve of the A Time To Stand event here in DC tomorrow Rev. Pat Mahoney has been given some amazing news. Commander Burgon of Special Operations Division of the District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department has informed the good Reverend that the Corporation Council of DC and the Attorney General have determined that THE PROPERTY IN FRONT OF PLANNED PARENTHOOD DC IS PUBLICNOT PRIVATE.

    Rev. Mahoney was told that in light of this determination there will be NO ARRESTS at the planned event on Saturday of anyone "crossing the line" to pray inside the contested space.

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  • "A Superhero For Choice" (Video)

    By Ian Kelly

    What does Planned Parenthood really think of the pro-life community?

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  • A Time to Stand Aug 13-14 (VIDEO)

    By Matt Lockett

    After the events of this week is there any doubt that the Judiciary is important and demands our attention?

    A couple of months ago I wrote here about a great tragedy that took place in our nation's capitol only a few blocks from the front door of the White House. Rev. Pat Mahoney did what Christians have been effectively doing for more than a decade. He knelt down on a public sidewalk to read scripture and pray for the life of the preborn in front of Planned Parenthood. Something different happened on that day however. That day he was arrested by the Washington, DC police and charged with unlawful entry.

    A lot of emotion got stirred up as I covered that story. Most of you were outraged that Planned Parenthood would be so audacious as to fence in a public space and declare it "off limits" at their own whim. And you should be outraged. To date no documentation has been produced by Planned Parenthood OR the city of Washington, DC demonstrating that the public space in front of their facility had been changed to private property. The only thing new is their iron fence and No Trespassing sign that is currently being enforced by police.

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  • Man Arrested For Praying At Abortion Clinic (Video)

    By Ian Kelly

    In yesterday's Daily Reads I posted a link to a Fox News story about a man who was arrested for praying outside an abortion clinic in Chicago. According to a spokesperson for the police department the man, Joseph Holland, was arrested for "blocking the entrance."

    From the Fox News report:

    Chicago police spokesman Roderick Drew told FoxNews.com that, according to the report, Holland "stood within an inch of the victim, prayed out loud at a high volume for over 10 minutes" but ultimately got arrested for blocking the entrance. [emphasis mine]

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  • How Much Does Planned Parenthood Love Sen. Barbara Boxer?

    By Ian Kelly

    I suppose love isn't the right word... perhaps enamored? Either way Planned Parenthood is spending a nice $1 million in order to get Boxer re-elected.

    via LifeNews.com:

    Carly Fiorina, the pro-life Senate candidate in California, is presenting pro-abortion Sen. Barbara such a tough challenge that Planned Parenthood says it plans to raise and spend $1 million attempting to save the seat of its closest ally in the Senate.

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  • Funding Abortion with a Phone Call

    By Susan Tyrrel

    It wasn’t 24 hours ago I was lamenting my AT&T service, which isn’t the best in the semi-rural area where I live. I was far too frustrated over a phone, and ready to cash it in. Then my friend P.J. sent me an interesting message. She had received a piece of mail offering to buy out her AT&T contract to join its service—and contribute to abortion in the process.

    CREDO Mobile, it seems, exists to support all things left wing—including Planned Parenthood, gay and lesbian rights groups, and the ACLU. In fact, the company seems to be targeting current AT&T customers and hurls accusations against AT&T. According to CREDO, AT&T gave money to such people as Senators Sam Brownback (R-KS), Tom Coburn (R-OK), former presidential candidate John McCain and others who have actually stood for pro-life, pro-family issues. CREDO publishes this link to “AT&T’s other coverage map.”  

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  • Planned Parenthood Caught On Tape Giving Fabricated Medical Information (Video)

    By Ian Kelly

    The folks from Live Action have released yet another shocking video revealing the duplicity of Planned Parenthood.

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

    By Ian Kelly

    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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  • Planned Parenthood Going To Court For Defrauding Taxpayers Millions

    By Ian Kelly

    No matter what Planned Parenthood says, they are an industry centered around money not women. Don't get me wrong, I know there are doctors and nurses inside this industry who truly care about women but are severely deceived as to what abortion is truly doing. However, the abortion industry itself is all about the bottom dollar. Planned Parenthood circumvents laws, defrauds taxpayers and manipulates politicians. Take for example, California:

    The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is reinstating Gonzalez v. Planned Parenthood of Los Angeles, a case alleging that Planned Parenthood defrauded taxpayers of tens of millions of dollars by overbilling government programs for birth-control pills and similar items.

    Jay Sekulow, Chief Counsel of the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), whose attorneys are handling the case, said that although "this case is by no means over, winning this appeal means we have gotten the federal claim over the threshold hurdles and can now get down to the heart of this case: the alleged fraud.”

    Victor Gonzalez, a former Chief Financial Officer for Planned Parenthood of Los Angeles (PPLA), had filed his suit on December 19, 2005, shortly after he was fired allegedly for voicing concerns about PP's illegal accounting practices.

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  • Planned Parenthood Sues Over Nebraska Abortion Law

    By Ian Kelly

    A new Nebraska law, scheduled to go into effect July 15, is coming under fire as Planned Parenthood has filed a lawsuit to challenge it's constitutionality:

    The new law would require women wanting abortions to be screened by doctors or other health professionals to determine whether they were pressured into having the procedure. Those women also would have to be screened for risk factors indicating they could have mental or physical problems after an abortion.

    Planned Parenthood, which runs one of two abortion clinics in Nebraska, has been critical of the measure, saying it could be difficult to comply with and could give women irrelevant information.

     

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  • Planned Parenthood's 'Telemed Abortions' May Be Illegal

    By Ian Kelly

    Welcome to the world of drive in abortions. Your abortionist chats with you over a webcam, you press a button and BAM! You get your RU-486 abortion meds. It really couldn’t be any simpler except that it might also be illegal...

    via World Net Daily:

    The complaint asserts violations of the Iowa law requiring that only licensed physicians perform abortions, the endangerment of women's lives through the process that dispenses drugs by remote control, negligence in dispensing drugs in ways that exceed manufacturer safety limits, overbilling of insurance companies and "patient abandonment," since the abortionist remains unavailable to the patient – even in an emergency.

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  • It's Time To Defund Planned Parenthood

    By Ian Kelly

    Christian Newswire reports that Rep. Mike Pence is calling Planned Parenthood out:

    U.S. Congressman Mike Pence today issued the following statement regarding the release of a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report revealing that the Planned Parenthood Federation of America received $657.1 million in taxpayer dollars from Fiscal Year 2002 to Fiscal Year 2009. The largest source of these funds ($342.1 million) was the Title X family planning program.

      "It is morally wrong to end an unborn human life by abortion. But it is also morally wrong to take the taxpayer dollars of millions of pro-life Americans and use those funds to promote abortion.

      "This report confirms that the largest abortion provider in America is being bankrolled by American taxpayers. In these tough economic times, there is simply no reason why taxpayer money should go to fund the activities of abortion providers and equip them with the resources they need to end innocent human life.

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  • Planned Parenthood Loathes "Choose Life" Plates

    By Ian Kelly

    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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  • Details Details Details

    By Matt Lockett

    Last week I invested myself in bringing to everyone's attention the arrest of Rev. Pat Mahoney. Rev. Mahoney is a good friend, but his arrest made an unusually strong impact on me beyond that. It disturbed me to see a member of the clergy being arrested by DC police that seemed to be following the law according to Planned Parenthood.

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  • Alabama Shuts Down Abortion Facility

    By Ian Kelly

    When I first heard that an abortion facility in Alabama was closing its doors I thought it was because of the economy, but I was blown away when I found out that the State of Alabama is forcing this facility to shut down:

    The Alabama Department of Public Health confirms that it will force the closure of a Montgomery area abortion clinic after "numerous and serious violations."

    ADPH attorney Pat Ivie confirmed the closure to WSFA 12 News Friday afternoon.

    Ivie said a three month-long investigation of Beacon Women's Center in Montgomery showed serious violations of state health codes. 

    The 68 page ADPH report [ READ THE FULL REPORT HERE] includes detailed information on violations such as failure to inspect medical equipment, the inability to conduct a controlled drug count during procedures and failure to follow administrative guidelines informing patients of their rights.

    During one visit by surveyors, the report indicates that the Registered Nurse on duty was unable to get into the controlled medical cabinet because the Medical Director left the only key in his Selma office. Seventeen patients who were scheduled to have procedures that day were given the option of rescheduling their appointment or going ahead without the use of sedation. All of the patients chose to go ahead with their procedures without sedation.

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  • 40 Feet To Fight For (Video)

    By Matt Lockett

    Matt Lockett, Director of Bound4LIFE, talks about the 40 feet of public property between the street and Planned Parenthood in Washington, DC.

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  • Private Property Propaganda (Video)

    By Matt Lockett

    In this Inside Bound4LIFE, Director Matt Lockett discusses obeying the law, trespassing, DC and lessons learned in Houston, TX.

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  • Out of Jail Interview (Video)

    By Matt Lockett

    Rev. Pat Mahoney was released from jail late last night and slept in his DC office. I caught up with him this afternoon once he had met with his attorneys for a planning meeting.

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  • Prayer Made Illegal In Washington DC (3 Videos)

    By Matt Lockett

    Today prayer was illegal in Washington, DC. You heard me right. Watch the video address to see what happened.

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  • 13-Year-Old Girl Performs Self-Induced Abortion

    By Ian Kelly

    Tragedy in Pennsylvania:

    A 30-year-old Polk Township man has been arrested for his role after a 13-year-old girl performed a self-induced abortion using a pencil. Michael James Lisk has been charged with rape and concealing the death of a child.

    State police were alerted to the case on Sunday after staff at Lehigh Valley Hospital treated the girl, who said she conducted the "home abortion" on herself using a lead pencil last Wednesday.

    She subsequently became violently ill and began having contractions before ultimately delivering a baby at her residence.

    The girl had been in contact with Lisk while she was in labor, police said. Lisk allegedly arrived at the her residence and removed the baby in a plastic shopping bag, later burying it in a wooded area along Middle Creek Road.

    The baby's body was later discovered by a state police forensic services unit.

    During their investigation, police learned that Lisk had been having a sexual relationship with the girl since June 2009. The girl believed he was the father, according to police.
     

    Did this young lady need help? Yes. Did she need options? Yes. The problem for pro-aborts is that they don't so much care that she killed her child, but that she did it herself thus inflicting injuries on herself. Folks, being more careful when killing your baby doesn't make it better or right.

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  • Industry Of Death - Part 6

    By Susan Tyrrel

    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

    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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  • No Safe Place

    By Christina Martin
    I recently had a dream where I was in a hospital room with an African-American nurse. She looked at me and plainly said "They are opening up an abortion clinic in your hometown." In the dream I began to weep and cried out  "No, there is no safe place!". As I wept, I glanced at her face and saw tears streaming from her eyes.
     
    When I awoke I knew the dream wasn't about the place I grew up, but rather my current town in Georgia. Just a few days later, I found out what I dreamt was a sad reality. Planned Parenthood has opened a new facility, just minutes away from the place I work and my home.
     

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  • Industry Of Death - Part 1

    By Susan Tyrrel

    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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  • "Roped Into The Abortion Debate"

    By Ian Kelly

    Via TVNZ:

    An American school principal is on leave as part of an investigation about the distribution of foetus dolls at an elementary school in the state of Virginia.

    The dolls were handed out to the students by a staff member of Oakwood Elementary School.

    The staff member has been put on administrative leave as well.

    The dolls which are pink and brown and about four inches long come with a pro-life message and information on foetal growth.

    Many believe the dolls are not appropriate for eight to 10-year-olds, saying children should not be roped into the abortion debate that is raging across the US.

    "Roped into the abortion debate" - now that's an interesting take. How about children roped into birth control and sexual activity? How about children roped into same-sex family ideals?

    Am I not ringing a bell? Here's something to ponder...

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  • New TV Ads For Abortion Services Part 2

    By Susan Tyrrel

    Yesterday we reported that the UK was running its first abortion ad on televisions.  CNN did this story on it, previewing the ad itself.

    We can’t deny the influence of media on a society. That’s why many grew up thinking smoking was cool, thanks to the Marlboro Man, or that we had to have certain toys or shoes. But if you are a child growing up in the UK, now you may think that having an abortion is cool. The ad is the result of a loophole violating of its own law against abortion providers advertising. Most abortion providers are nonprofit and cannot advertise, but Marie Stopes is excepted from the law because it is a for-profit abortion provider. Marie Stopes is sort of like Planned Parenthood, with even similar looking web pages. In fact, it even offers a “booking service’ so you can have an abortion consultation online.

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  • A Holocaust By Any Other Name Is Still A Holocaust

    By Susan Tyrrel

    We call abortion a Holocaust not only because of the mass destruction of a single people group but because it’s a calculated and systemic destruction which began with a goal to weed out what was termed an “inferior” people.

    Any look at the writings of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger reminds us that abortion is not, and was never meant to be, a simple operation. Here’s a brief sample:

    In her 1920 book, Woman and the New Race, Sanger explicitly called her work "nothing more or less than the facilitation of the process of weeding out the unfit, of preventing the birth of defectives or those who will become defectives." As she wrote in The Birth Control Review, "the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the overfertility of the mentally and physically defective." (source)

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  • The Lethal Five Percent

    By Ian Kelly

    Guess who made it back to a Planned Parenthood site? Yep, Bound4LIFE.

    We have moved up from the "Anti-Choice Actions & Clinic Violence" section and have now reached the big time with (drum roll, please)"Anti-Choice Greatest Hits"

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  • Designer Children Sold To The Highest Bidder

    By Susan Tyrrel

    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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  • “Comprehensive“ Sex Ed.

    By Tiffani Edwards

    The Religious Coalition For Reproductive Choice is at it again:

    The federal government has wasted the past eight years and over $1.3 billion on abstinence-only programs which do not work and jeopardize the lives and futures of our young people by denying them scientifically sound information about methods of contraception.

    Get your congregation or social justice committee involved in advocating for comprehensive sexuality education by asking members to sign a postcard to their member of Congress in support of reproductive justice. You can order your free postcards just by filling out the form below. Please let other clergy, congregations, and organizations know about our campaign to empower young people with knowledge.

    The Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice is urging us, the Church, to come against abstinence, and stand behind “comprehensive” sexual education. What is “comprehensive “ sexual education, you may ask? Well, take a look at this from Planned Parenthood’s website.

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  • Target: Latinas

    By Matt Lockett

    We've already made you aware that yesterday was the first official day of business for Planned Parenthood's Abortion Supercenter in Houston, TX. This 78,000 square foot monstrosity has been located right in the middle of four minority neighborhoods. Big ones. The city of Houston calls them "super neighborhoods." Three are between 80%-90% Hispanic and the other is more than 80% African American.

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  • Abortion Super Center in Houston Opens Today

    By Ian Kelly

    Houston, Texas is now "officially" home to the largest abortion clinic in the United States. Not exactly what I would call a claim to fame. Nevertheless, today marks the opening of Planned Parenthood's 78,000 sq. ft. monstrosity.

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  • "The Pill" Turns 50

    By Kaitlin Martinez

    Happy Mother’s Day! Happy Birthday to “The Pill”! 


    In what can only be seen as an ironic twist of events the birth control pill turns 50 this Sunday, May 9th… which also happens to be Mother’s Day. I read an AP article chronicling the history of the pill which you can read here.

    Birth control cleared the path for legalized abortion. Although the pill was intended to prevent unwanted pregnancies the article states that “nearly half of all pregnancies to U.S. women are unintended and nearly half of those end in abortion”. There was no legalized abortion before the pill, but since its legalization more women started having sex outside of marriage; resulting in the need to REALLY take care of those pesky little “unwanted pregnancies”.

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  • Justification Of Deceit

    By Susan Tyrrel

    One thing the abortion industry thrives on to keep itself alive as it kills unborn babies is its justification of deceit. I was reminded of this again as I read that Oklahoma County District Judge Noma Gurich delayed the recent action that would require women to have an ultrasound prior to an abortion. Already bounced around after the governor vetoed the bill and then the state legislature overrode the veto, Gurich’s action puts another delay on a process that makes me wonder what the pro-abortion folks are so terrified of happening.

    If it’s not a baby but “only a fetus,” as we hear time and again, then why would an ultrasound be worrisome? The Christian Post reports that according to the Center for Reproductive Rights the law is "detrimental to women in the state." The Center argues that the ultrasound requirement profoundly intrudes upon a patient’s privacy and is the most extreme ultrasound law in the country.”

    The opposition to this law came from, of course, two abortion providers, who sued to stop its implementation. But it’s not a violation of patients’ rights to privacy; it’s a violation of doctors’ incomes. And that’s exactly why there has been such a battle nationwide lately for laws requiring ultrasounds prior to abortion.

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  • Abortion Supercenters- The Wave of the Future

    By Matt Lockett

    Planned Parenthood announced this week that they will be building their next  46,000 sq. ft. Abortion Supercenter in St. Paul, MN. What is an Abortion Supercenter you ask? That would refer to any abortion facility that's square footage exceeds 10,000. Think about most neighborhood-sized abortion facilities that are about the size of a single-family home. Brand new Supercenters are being built at a size that rivals your local Wal-Mart.

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  • Planned Parenthood Mentions Red "LIFE" Tape

    By Ian Kelly

    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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  • Embellished Facts And Emotional Propaganda

    By Susan Tyrrel

    A recent opinion column on CNN.com reveals the disturbing tactic to which those who support abortion will go to convince a nation that deception actually lies on the side of those who are pro-life. This column may be labeled opinion, but in journalism opinion must still be rooted in fact. To have an opinion about a fact is fine, when it’s stated as such, but to embellish facts to make opinions seem stronger can sometimes be called libel. The writer, Mary Alice Carr, also happens to be the vice president for communications at the National Institute for Reproductive Health. This explains the bias.

    I’d tracked with the new Oklahoma pro-life laws somewhat, but had not delved into the details. When I saw the CNN heading that the law encouraged doctors to lie to patients, I explored it more. In fact, the way I explored it, after reading the author’s blatant accusations which were funneled worldwide via CNN, was to actually go read the bill (HB 2656) itself.  The bill isn’t very long, and it’s a pretty easy read. Let’s look at the facts...

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  • 11-Year-Old Rape Victim Wants To Keep Her Baby

    By Ian Kelly

    This story is both tragic and heroic:

    An 11-year-old girl in Mexico allegedly raped by her stepfather and now more than four months pregnant says she wants to have his baby – despite pressure from women’s groups who want her to have an abortion, pro-life activists in the country say.

    They say attorneys for abortion-rights activists have shown up at the girl's home with plane tickets in hand in an attempt to whisk her away to get an abortion, but the  child has said adamantly, “This is my baby. I’m having my baby. I will call my girl Alejandra.”

    The girl was taken for an ultrasound last week and was able to see the fetus and learn its sex for the first time. She said the 11-year-old was very excited to see the image of her baby girl moving during the ultrasound.

    “When the girl looks at the baby on the screen she is even more sure she wants to have it,” Mancera said. “The mother said,“That’s my grandchild, we are going to have this baby.”

    The girl said she’d picked out a name for a baby, a name she wishes were her own. “Her name is Alejandra,” she told doctors, Mancera said.

    The girl's doctors say she and her baby are in good health, Mancera said, but that because of the girl’s small size she’s going to need constant medical attention when she reaches her seventh month. Because of her size, the doctors will perform a cesarean section.

    This little girl is brave. She probably does not understand the full implications of what life will be like after she has her baby, but what is clear for this girl is that killing her child is not an option.

    What's sad is, if Planned Parenthood had its way, this girl would have had an abortion and another sex crime would have gone unreported. To be honest, if it were here in the States, the rapist may have payed for the abortion, himself.

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  • Tonight On American Idol...

    By Susan Tyrrel

    America’s favorite show wants you to support abortion. Tonight’s American Idol episode will feature celebrities urging American’s to make a donation to charities, claiming that “Idol Gives Back.” What it is giving back to is abortion funding for the nations.

    This article gives details of the organizations, which include Save the Children and UNICEF. According to the article:

    Save the Children has a working relationship with what it calls "prominent international organizations." Several of these groups are actively pro-abortion, including Better World Fund, Center for Reproductive Rights, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Population Action International, and the U.S. Committee for UNICEF.

    While some of this language is sanitized for reading audiences to believe the guise of compassion, these organizations are following the lead of Planned Parenthood which uses key terms such a “reproductive health” to euphemize abortion so people think they are saving the children when, in actuality, they are helping kill them.

    What’s especially reprehensible is that so many families and pro-life people love American Idol. They are being deceived into thinking their favorite show is helping the poor. But it is deceit.

    The Bible says, “No wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light” (2 Cor. 11:14)

    American Idol is making itself as an angel of light. It’s perpetuating the idea that by listening to famous people we might admire, we can help the nations of the world by helping the poor. It’s a false social justice ideology that actually is contrary to the true social justice of the Bible.

    Social justice apart from Jesus is no real justice. Abortion is utterly against the word of God and the true light of Jesus.  We cannot fund the destruction of those He created and call it justice. It is not helping the nations if we give to organizations that kill babies, no matter what guise they use to deceive us, including our favorite television shows and celebrities. 

     

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  • China Looks To Sterilise 10,000 Parents

    By Ian Kelly

    If you break the one-child policy in China you are a prime candidate for sterilization!

    The Times Online reports:

    Doctors in southern China are working around the clock to fulfil a government goal to sterilise — by force if necessary — almost 10,000 men and women who have violated birth control policies. Family planning authorities are so determined to stop couples from producing more children than the regulations allow that they are detaining the relatives of those who resist.

    About 1,300 people are being held in cramped conditions in towns across Puning county, in Guangdong Province, as officials try to put pressure on couples who have illegal children to come forward for sterilisation.

    The 20-day campaign, which was launched on April 7, aims to complete 9,559 sterilisations in Puning, which, with a population of 2.24 million, is the most populous county in the province.

    A doctor in Daba village said that his team was working flat out, beginning sterilisations every day at 8am and working straight through until 4am the following day.

    Draconian, I know. But check this out - In 2006, China passed qualifications tests of Planned Parenthood:

     

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  • Can An Unborn Child Really Feel Pain?

    By Ian Kelly

    Last week, Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman signed the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act into law, banning abortions at and after 20 weeks.

    The pro-abortion community went into an uproar, declaring that there is no research to back up the claim that a "fetus" can even feel pain:

    "There is certainly no solid scientific evidence establishing that a fetus can perceive pain at these earlier stages, so any court decisions to uphold such broader laws could only do so by disregarding the importance of good scientific evidence," said Caitlin Borgmann, a law professor at The City University of New York.

    This, of course, is not true.

    In 1973, when Roe was decided, it was believed that the nervous systems of even newborn babies were too immature to feel pain -- so doctors generally did not provide anesthesia to infants before surgery. But 25 years ago, a young doctor at Oxford University named Kanwaljeet Anand noticed that babies coming to his neonatal intensive care unit from surgery suffered a massive stress response -- indicating they had been through extreme pain. His research into this phenomenon shifted medical opinion, and today even the most premature newborns are given anesthesia to alleviate pain during surgery.

    Anand -- now a professor at the University of Arkansas and a pediatrician at the Arkansas Children's Hospital -- continued his research into infant pain, which has led him to conclude that fetuses can feel pain at 20 weeks, and possibly as early as 17 weeks when a portion of the brain called the "subplate zone" is formed. Indeed, according to a New York Times Magazine story on Anand's research, a fetus's "immature physiology may well make it more sensitive to pain, not less: The body's mechanisms for inhibiting pain and making it more bearable do not become active until after birth."

     

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  • Federal Abortion Mandate Opt Out Act

    By Ian Kelly

    Last week, White House officials announced that a new push to defend health care and maintain democratic seats this November is underway:

    Pollsters Geoff Garin and Joel Benenson,and White House aides David Axelrod, Dan Pfeiffer, Phil Schiliro, and Jim Messina addressed the Democratic Policy Committee's regular Thursday lunch in the Mansfield Room to outline the Democratic National Committee's $50-million electoral plan, and to discuss the political calendar and the defense of health care.

    Pfeiffer, the White House communications director, said they expected to announce a very senior, and well known, communications hire for the push on health care messaging, the source said. The messaging will -- as it has -- focus on "deliverables" in the legislation, like a small-business tax credit and other features, Pfeiffer said.

    This fight, however, is probably a losing battle. States are already taking action against Health Care mandates including taxpayer funded abortions through state exchange programs.

    From Americans United for Life:

    The day after the pro-abortion health care bill was signed into law, we were ready: Our brand new model legislation, the Federal Abortion Mandate Opt Out Act, has been requested by supporters in more than 30 states. A provision in the new health care bill allows states to pass laws that prohibit insurance plans in the soon-to-be-created state exchanges from providing abortion coverage. AUL is helping states do exactly that.

    Missouri and Tennessee are moving quickly. Both have bills that are already moving through the legislature. And other states are joining them. California, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Mississippi, and Oklahoma all plan to introduce new bills or amend pending legislation. The current rules in the Mississippi Senate don’t allow this kind of bill to be introduced at this point in the session, but the Lt. Governor is filing a motion to suspend the rules to allow the bill, they feel so strongly about it.

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  • Forcing Crisis Pregnancy Centers To “Disclose” Services

    By Susan Tyrrel

    There are cities in this nation so obsessed with keeping murder legal that they waste time and tax dollars to enforce a law that essentially says that places that exist to love and help women must disclose they will not help them do harm to their babies?

    So let me get this straight—you have to tell me you will not help me kill my baby for your profit but you don’t have to tell me if you will?

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  • Planned Parenthood And The Girl Scouts

    By Tiffani Edwards

    I almost fell out of my chair when I read the news. The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts hosted a panel in New York, part of the annual United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. According to the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute, the Girl Scouts allowed Planned Parenthood “to distribute brochures containing sexually explicit material to the young girls.”

    The booklet is titled “Healthy, Happy, and Hot.”  Much of the content is so pornographic; I wouldn’t dare talk about it over the air or post it online. But you need to know that the sex guide advocates every imaginable kind of sex. As the guide blithely puts it, “There is no right or wrong way to have sex. Just have fun, explore and be yourself!”

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  • Abortion Via Skype

    By Ian Kelly

    With the number of abortionists declining, organizations like Planned Parenthood are facing major problems and must do something to export their "services".

    Apparently, Planned Parenthood has found their solution. They are turning to webcams and teleconferencing as their way of prescribing abortifacient drugs - namely, the controversial RU-486 drug.

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  • VIDEO: Interview With Abby Johnson

    By Ian Kelly

    Abby Johnson, a former Director of Planned Parenthood, shares the truth about the abortion industry.

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  • Perpetuating Crime

    By Ian Kelly

    The Missouri House has passed a wide-ranging bill that would create new requirements surrounding abortions. The new requirements include notifying prosecutors anytime a girl younger than 18 seeks an abortion, whether she goes through with it or not. 

    GOP House Member Brian Nieves of Franklin County says it would reduce the number of abortions performed in Missouri. 

    "And hopefully, bringing to justice the sick, disgusting people that would actually rape an underage child," Nieves says.

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  • Planned Parenthood In Memphis Wants A New Home

    By Ian Kelly

    Planned Parenthood of Greater Memphis Region will have a new $2.8 million home at 2430 Poplar pending state approval in April.

    The clinic purchased the three-story office building previously occupied by Family Services and it will be Planned Parenthood's health center and administrative offices.

    The clinic will completely renovate the first two floors of the 30,000-square-foot building before it moves in this summer from its prior location at 1407 Union.

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  • The Lottery

    By Susan Tyrrel

    For years, I have taught a classic short story by Shirley Jackson called “The Lottery.” Students who read it for the first time are horrified by the culmination of the story. The town fertility ritual includes the annual stoning to death of a randomly selected innocent citizen, and even the victim’s young son is seen picking up pebbles to throw at Mommy, while Mommy screams how it’s not fair as the townspeople pounce...

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  • Houston, We Have a Fund Raiser

    By Matt Lockett

    As a follow up to the extraordinary pro-life events of January 17-18 in Houston, TX everyone should be aware that Planned Parenthood is still publicly declaring anApril opening for the 78,000 square foot Abortion Super Center. That's next month.

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  • Which One Will You Worship?

    By Susan Tyrrel

    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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  • Airing Dirty Laundry or Pointing the Finger in the Wrong Direction?

    By Matt Lockett

    This morning the controversial billboard campaign created by our good friends at the Radiance Foundation was featured on CNN's American Morning. Right now there are 80 of these billboards up in the city of Atlanta, and it's creating a lot of debate. What's interesting is that much of the debate is taking place within the Black community itself.

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  • Abortion In The Comfort And Privacy Of Home

    By Ian Kelly

    Planned Parenthood of Southwestern Oregon plans to offer medication-induced abortions at its clinics in Ashland and Eugene beginning sometime in March.

    Cynthia Pappas, Planned Parenthood's executive director, said the organization's board of directors decided to offer the service to provide women with an option for terminating a pregnancy in the comfort and privacy of home. Medication-induced abortions use drugs to expel a fetus.

    The comfort and privacy of home? Forgive me but I had to do a google search for that phrase just to see what it pulled up. Here are my favorites:

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  • Medicine And The Holocaust

    By Susan Tyrrel

    The more I learn about World War II, Hitler, eugenics and extermination of people groups, the more stunned I am at the double talk which emits from the mouths of those who would dub themselves pro-choice but who would, with another breath, condemn Hitler.

    The fact is, supporting the alleged right to an abortion is tantamount to making a pact with Hitler to destroy people deemed less valuable. Hitler called them Jews. Pro-abortion folks call them “unplanned pregnancies.” There exists no difference in the outcome. Semantics never change reality.

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  • Planned Parenthood Opens New Supercenter In Oregon

    By Ian Kelly

    On Valentine's Day, Planned Parenthood opened another of its abortion supercenters in Portland, Oregon. It is Oregon’s largest abortion center, as well as one of the largest in the nation.

    Oregon Right To Life released a statement about the opening of this facility:

    Despite Planned Parenthood’s attempts to downplay its focus on abortion, the organization’s 2007‐2008 national annual report reveals its commitment to its abortion business. Abortions performed at Planned Parenthood clinics around the nation increased 5.3% over the previous year, totaling 305,310 abortions, approximately 25% of all abortions done in the United States. Abortions at Planned Parenthood clinics have nearly doubled in the past 10 years, while at the same time total abortions have dropped nearly every year.

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  • Wanted By God

    By Christina Martin

    I recently had the pleasure of attending a baby shower held on behalf of a beautiful, 15 year old girl. This African-American teenager went through the shock and pain of a “crisis pregnancy”. Her mother and then boyfriend strongly encouraged her to abort her unexpected child. Her believing Grandmother spoke up and refused to let that happen. She stepped in and offered to take the girl into her home and help her raise her baby. As the grandmother later told me “Abortion is murder, and no matter how this child has come into the world, I would not let my granddaughter kill her”.

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  • US Military To Make The “Morning-After” Pill Available

    By Susan Tyrrel

    The US Military is nothing if not consistent. Perhaps our first clue should have been in late 2009 when Army Major Nidal Hasan was charged with killing 13 people at the Killeen Army base, instead of the 14 that should have been counted, since one woman was pregnant. We are used to the double standard in this nation that almost always charges people (correctly) with two murders if they are accused of killing a pregnant woman yet allows abortion as legalized murder.

    This is why I was grieved, but not shocked, when I saw this article over the weekend which announced that the US military has decide to make the “morning-after” pill  available at all US military health care facilities worldwide.

    “The decision to carry the pill, often referred to as the morning-after pill, was based on a recommendation by the Pentagon's Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee, an advisory panel made up of medical professionals from the military services, Pentagon officials said Friday.”

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  • A Good Question

    By Susan Tyrrel

    I was one of thousands who gathered in Houston to take a stand in prayer against the Planned Parenthood abortion Super Center Jan. 18. The experience was awesome, encouraging, and sobering, all at once, but the one element that has not left me was a small one: the group of pro-abortion protesters who were barricaded by police directly across from where I spent the first two hours of the Siege.

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  • Super Bowl Ad Should Not Tell Truth

    By Ian Kelly

    Mr. Tebow is causing quite the stir right now for actually having some convictions and for (wait for it) talking about those convictions.

    "The NFL's championship game is still two weeks away, but some women's groups are already protesting one of the commercials scheduled to air during the Super Bowl.

    University of Florida football star Tim Tebow and his mother will be featured in a commercial sponsored by the Christian group, Focus on the Family.

    Protesters say the ad will likely promote an anti-abortion message."

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  • The Road to Houston- As Seen on TV

    By Matt Lockett

    Bound4LIFE gave away FREE OF CHARGE more than 8,000 Life Bands on Sunday night, January 17th.

    We officially had 4,200 people praying silently with LIFE tape around Planned Parenthood on Monday, January 18th!

    This marks the single largest Silent Siege that has ever happened...anywhere.

    At the same time there were an estimated 10,000 additional people across the highway participating in the rally and Silent March. 

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  • Bound4LIFE Video Featured on JillStanek.com

    By Ian Kelly

    Today, Jill Stanek, one of the foremost pro-life voices in America (especially online), featured our Houston, Now Is The Time video on her website.

    (We are really happy about that.)

    But it gets better! Ms. Stanek is reporting that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is planning to come on down to Houston and getting in on the action, as well.

    From JillStanek.com:

    ...come Monday, 3 worlds are going to collide, because People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals ... is negotiating to erect this billboard near the PP site in time for the pro-life march...

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  • Stand Or Fall

    By Susan Tyrrel

    As we prepare to take a massive stand this weekend in Houston against the Planned Parenthood clinic being erected, my heart has been stirred by a Scripture that hold s a principle we in America often like to ignore.

    Because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed quickly, therefore the hearts of the sons of men among them are given fully to do evil. (Ecc. 8:11)

    In our nation, we have not begun to see trouble on a widespread basis. One reason 9/11 stunned us so much is because we felt invulnerable. It seemed unless we chose to go to war, we were immune. But just like war, sometimes if we don’t choose to go, we will suffer greater. A delayed judgment isn’t an absence of judgment.

    It can be easy, when years go by and we remain comfortable, to think that that judgment stuff is “Old Testament law” and since God is merciful and it will be okay. We say things like “I hate abortion but there are so many problems in the world, and we can’t fight them all.”

    But we can fight this...

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  • The Road to Houston-Pt 6

    By Matt Lockett
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    By Matt Lockett

    Pastor Richard Rodriguez of Christian Life Center in Houston, TX hosted Bound4LIFE Director Matt Lockett on his Daystar program this week to discuss the Planned Parenthood Abortion "Super Center" and the events coming up on January 17-18. Leah Nelson and Nik Slimp, Houston Chapter Leaders, also joined the program.

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  • The Road to Houston-Pt 4

    By Matt Lockett

    This morning Drudge Report featured a CNS News article about our pro-life events in Houston coming up on January 17-18. The news item reads, "'Abortion super center' set to open in Houston..."

    You can read the CNS News article here: http://cnsnews.com/news/article/59334

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  • The Road to Houston-Pt 3

    By Matt Lockett

    Matt Lockett discusses developing details for the Houston gatherings on January 17-18 and talks with Richy Clark of Radiant Worship.

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  • The Road to Houston-Pt 2

    By Matt Lockett

    A brief discussion about Planned Parenthood and unethical billing practices involving Medicaid as documented in several audits and lawsuits. 

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  • Have You Seen What Planned Parenthood Is Doing In Houston?

    By Matt Lockett

    Planned Parenthood is building in Houston, TX the second largest abortion facility in the world. With it they are targeting minority families both Black American and Hispanic. It literally resembles an ancient Aztec temple used for human sacrifice.

    We have just produced a powerful video detailing this crisis that's currently taking place.

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  • Webcast Tomorrow Night: Crisis On The Senate Floor

    By Ian Kelly

    National Healthcare System

    Recently, I sent an E-Blast with Tony Perkins, President of Family Research Council, calling the nation to join an urgent national webcast prayer convocation to ask God to restrain federally funded abortion in the health care system. On that E-Blast I wrote:

    On Friday, December 4th, I was awakened early in the morning with a burden to pray, as I considered the consequences of abortion being mainstreamed into the national health care system if the senate health care bill is passed as it is right now.

    I turned to 1 Chronicles 21 where the destroying angel had come to the threshing floor of Ornan. God, in his heart of mercy, restrained the angel of death, saying, “Enough! Restrain your hand.” The angel of death still hovered between heaven and earth with its sword drawn. Even with God’s restraint, the verdict was still in the balance as to whether or not the death march would continue. An earth being, namely David, had to agree with God’s restraint through repentance, paying the full price, and offering up the atoning blood. When David went up to the threshing floor in repentance and erected the altar and offered the sacrifice, God heeded the prayers and the angel of death sheathed its sword.

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  • My Plea To Black America

    By Christina Martin

    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

    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

    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

    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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  • VIDEO: Planned Parenthood Can't Even Keep Their Lies Straight.

    By Ian Kelly

    Lila Rose and the Live Action team have released another video. This time Planned Parenthood workers can't even keep their own lies straight...

     

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  • The Real Right To Choose

    By Susan Tyrrel

    The abortion issue in our nation is often one the coincides with the selfish attitude we perpetuate in Western culture. It goes something like this: I live in America. I want the American Dream; you can’t stop me from getting what I want.

    The problem with the health care reform issues is that the pro-abortion side has taken this idea to the nth degree. With their demand for choice at any cost, they have attempted to remove my choice to not pay for their choice...

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  • Abortion Clinic Employee Attacks Pregnant Pro-life Volunteer

    By Ian Kelly

    An abortion clinic employee attacked a pregnant pro-life volunteer outside the Central Family Medicine abortion clinic in Kansas City, Kansas, while she was engaged in peaceful, First Amendment activity.

    On November 14, 2009, an unidentified abortion clinic employee came out of the Central Family Medicine abortion clinic and began to taunt the pro-lifers. Her verbal abuse escalated into violence as she rammed her shoulder into sidewalk counselor Jennifer McCoy, who is noticeably six months pregnant. A photograph taken by protest leader Mark Gietzen of the Kansas Coalition for Life shows McCoy recoiling and bracing for the hard impact that occurred a split second later.

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  • Saving The Status Quo

    By Susan Tyrrel

    President Obama is arguing that it’s necessary to pull the Stupak Amendment banning federal funding of abortions because he doesn’t think we should alter the status quo. The definition of status quo is the existing state of affairs, the ways things are. With that definition, he is arguing against himself because currently my money does not pay for the shedding of innocent blood without my having a choice. The status quo, in this case, works for me.  There is a cultural definition of status quo that it appears the president likes better. It says:

    “The existing order of things; present customs, practices, and power relations: ‘People with money are often content with the status quo.’ ”

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  • Cold-Hearted And Unreasonable?

    By Ian Kelly

    I'm stumped. It wasn't but a week ago that people who opposed health care legislation, because of abortion funding, were being called ignorant, cold-hearted and unreasonable.

    The attacks basically had the same tone to them. We were unreasonable because we could not set aside our difference of opinion on abortion and think of the greater good. We were told to consider not only abortion but the millions of uninsured people who are struggling without health care. We were the bad guys. How dare we oppose such legislation. Of course, that was when everything was going according to plan.

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  • Relentless

    By Micah Meisburg

    On the siege line, there is a battle that rages around and within. Shouts of profanity might fill your ears. Sorrow might fill your heart as you witness firsthand such brazen infamy. What seemed so noble at first begins to feel distasteful. “Don’t you have anything better to do? Mind your own business!” Or so the voices say.
     
    Yet there is a motivation that surpasses the discouragement of injustice and disdain. It is a motivation that surpasses human ability, and has strengthened my hope, time and time again. It is something more powerful than death, and to which all resistance must ultimately give way – the persevering love of Jesus Christ.

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  • Our Action Plan

    By Susan Tyrrel

    While we rejoice over the victory of the Stupak-Pitts Amendment which would create a ban on public abortion funding under the proposed national health care plan, a Planned Parenthood leader is seething. Cecile Richards, President of Planned Parenthood Action Fund, sent out this letter to her mailing list Sunday afternoon. Some of the things she said struck me, not only for obvious reasons but because of the parallel we as Christians should be noting. We could actually learn a lot from them.

    “At Planned Parenthood, we fought together with you until the bitter end (thank you), and once we lost the vote on women's health, we started to do what we do best — gear up for our next fight.” - Richards

    The warrior attitude Richards is portraying should be our attitude as we battle in the heavenlies for the lives of the unborn. Jesus makes a striking point when the Pharisees accuse Him of being of Satan when He casts out demons. He says:

    "Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and no city or house divided against itself will stand. And if Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then will his kingdom stand? ... Or how can someone enter a strong man's house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man? Then indeed he may plunder his house. Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters. (Mat 12:25-26, 29-30)

    We want the “goods”—the ending of abortion in America. This isn’t the time to cry, “Democrat!” “Republican!” It’s the time to cry, “JESUS!”

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  • Must See TV

    By Matt Lockett

    This video is a “MUST SEE.”

    • This is a must see for every person ever involved in any aspect of the pro-life movement. You will be wildly encouraged.
    • This is a must see for every Christian. You will think differently about the abortion industry and be motivated to pray.
    • This is a must see for every Planned Parenthood official. You will tremble at truth being revealed.
    • This is a must see for every pro-abortion activist. You will hopefully reconsider the ideology you were dooped into defending.
    • This is a must see for every abortion clinic worker. Abby says you'll run out and never look back.

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  • Passion Is Not Passive

    By Susan Tyrrel

    The nation was gripped a couple weeks ago when up to 20 people watched a gang rape of a 15-year old girl take place and no one spoke up or called the police. CNN reported on the psychology of bystanders and looked at the history of those who have stood passively by while acts of violence occurred.

    Often we remain horrified at these acts, declaring we would certainly intervene, but don’t see the parallel in our own call to contend for the ending of abortion in America.

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  • Planned Parenthood Leader Resigns After Watching Ultrasound of Abortion Procedure

    By Ian Kelly

    This former Planned Parenthood employee was told to get more abortions in the door in light of the poor economy. (Now that's health care you can trust!) And to think members of Congress are trying to fuel this kind of complete and utter disregard of ethics not to mention women's health care, by mandating taxpayer money to fund abortion clinics just like this one... if not this one directly!

     

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  • Abortion - The Greatest Crime Lowering Factors In American History”?

    By Christina Martin

    I was recently in an airport when I purchased a copy of the NY times best seller “Freakonomics”. This book was written by economist Steven D. Levitt and journalist Stephen J. Dubner. Since its 2005 release it’s sold more than 4 million copies and been published in 35 languages. From Time magazine to the Washington Post this book has gotten rave reviews. The San Francisco Weekly exclaims “I can’t think of a single adult I know who wouldn’t enjoy reading it”.  All this praise seems disturbing in light of the appalling thoughts expressed in its pages. Namely their proposal, that abortion could be considered “one of the greatest crime-lowering factors in American history”.

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  • Planned Parenthood 1964 Advertisement

    By Ian Kelly

    Just in case you are having problems reading the text it says,

    An abortion kills the life of a baby after it has begun.  It is dangerous to your life and health.

    Perhaps, Planned Parenthood was a bit to honest with their advertisement... but hey, it's refreshing that at least they used to be truthful about what they do. Nowadays, they just lie about it.

    Planned Parenthood, you know what they say: Admission is the first step to recovery.

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  • Pregnant Teenager Paid Man To Beat Her In Abortion Attempt

    By Ian Kelly

    A judge has released a 17-year-old Vernal girl from jail after ruling she did not commit a crime when she allegedly paid a man to beat her in an attempt to end her late-term pregnancy.

    The release, which came after the girl's mother obtained a second opinion on her daughter's no contest plea, has incensed some lawmakers who argue the ruling skirts laws governing legal abortions in Utah.

    "The judge is absolutely stretching," said Rep. Carl Wimmer, R-Herriman. "There's no way the judge believes the Utah Legislature left open this loophole. I guarantee it will be closed this next session."

    Eighth District Juvenile Court Judge Larry Steele sided with attorney Rich King, who argued under Utah law and around the country women are not held criminally liable for soliciting an abortion.

    "Women may use any procedure or method of terminating pregnancy, by abortion or by miscarriage, and they cannot be charged with a crime," King said.

    Judge Steele called the girl's actions to end her seven-month pregnancy "shocking and crude" in a four-page ruling Thursday, but said her actions "fit the definition for an abortion. As such, she cannot be held criminally liable for her actions pursuant to the Utah abortion statutes."

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  • School Sex Clinics?!

    By Tyler Vaughn

    If you aren’t fully convinced that there is an agenda for abortion behind the Health Care Reform bill, then maybe you should check this video and article out.  Not only is abortion simply about killing, (as if that was ever a simple matter) but it is about the systematic dismantling of the family -- and that is what is being pushed through in this bill.     

    Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., went before the House and stated that the Health Care Reform bill would allow school “sex clinics” to be established and would keep parents from ever knowing about the care and treatments there child undergoes.

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  • Overnight Open Thread For Sept. 22nd

    By Ian Kelly

    Congress has cut off tens of millions of dollars in funding to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), after videos showed ACORN workers sounding eager to assist with tax evasion, human smuggling and child prostitution.

    Why has Congress not looked at Planned Parenthood in the same way? More than a couple videos have shown Planned Parenthood employee's giving instruction's on how to circumvent the law as well as helping to cover up statutory rape.

    Should Congress hold Planned Parenthood to the same standard as ACORN?

    What are your thoughts on all this? DISCUSS.

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  • So Which One Is It?

    By Ian Kelly

    “And one more misunderstanding I want to clear up – under our plan, no federal dollars will be used to fund abortions, and federal conscience laws will remain in place.” ~ President Obama

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  • Inside Bound4LIFE 9/4/09

    By Ian Kelly

    Weekly updates from Bound4LIFE with Executive Director Matt Lockett.

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  • "Blood Money"

    By Ian Kelly

    A new documentary called, "Blood Money", is aiming to expose the abortion buisness...

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  • Gas on the Fire

    By Matt Lockett

    I was thinking this morning about the very real possibility of Planned Parenthood in Sioux Falls, SD being shut down this week and South Dakota becoming the first abortion-free state in America (see "Planned Parenthood License Could Be Suspended"). I can't think about something like that and not think about my dear friend Dr. Patti. She used to perform abortions for Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota. Now she loves Jesus and carries a profound message of his love, forgiveness and the power of his blood. I hope watching this again (or for the first time if you've never seen it) blesses you and acts like gasoline on the fire of your prayers.

    (see video after the jump)

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  • Planned Parenthood License Could Be Suspended

    By Ian Kelly

    Planned Parenthood in Sioux Falls which is the only abortion clinic could potentially see their license suspended. That's because the Department of Health has formally threatened to suspend their license.

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  • Greedy Hands

    By Ian Kelly

    Another Planned Parenthood affiliate has been caught defrauding taxpayers of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

    An audit recently conducted by Washington state’s Department of Social and Health Services revealed the Spokane abortion business overcharged the state Medicaid program by at least $629,142.88 from 2004 to 2007.

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  • Moral "Outcry" or "Outrage"?

    By Matt Lockett

    It might be hard to distinguish a difference between the two in the days ahead judging from the many handheld videos popping up on the internet of town hall meetings all across the nation that are exploding in public outburst. I recently sat in a meeting in which a Senator asked a specialist, "Are people really as angry as they seem?" The room went totally silent at his response,"Senator...they're twice as mad as you think."

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  • Bullying Blue Dogs: Rep Waxman Twists Arms and Morals

    By Matt Lockett

    Despite objections Chairman Waxman invoked special House rules to FORCE THE AMENDMENT TO A SECOND VOTE late Thursday night only after putting pressure on a couple of the committee members. Rep. Zack Space (D-OH), who had not voted the first time, voted "NO" on the amendment, and Rep. Bart Gordon (D-TN) changed his yes vote to "NO" giving Waxman his 1-vote majority.

    The amendment to prevent your taxpayer dollars from funding abortion was defeated 30-29.

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  • Baby Found Alive

    By Ian Kelly

    A baby girl cut from her mother's womb was found and a woman arrested after acquaintances became suspicious of her claims that she had just given birth, police said.

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  • Abortion Is Not Healthcare

    By Matt Lockett

    My team and I have been "prayer walking" the House office buildings in the morning this week. First thing today it was reported from House Majority Leader Hoyer and Speaker Pelosi that it had been decided to postpone a vote on the current Health Care Bill until after Labor Day. This comes as a specific answer to prayer to slow this process down. I feel as though our prayers have been sand in the gears for what seemed impossible to stop not many days ago.

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  • Call on Congress and Conscience

    By Matt Lockett

    Pastor Walter B. Hoye II is an African American of Oakland, CA that was unjustly targeted and imprisoned recently. Hoye breaks the mold by taking an unwavering stand for LIFE in the black community and serving as a prophetic voice concerning the racial targeting of Planned Parenthood.

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  • Confessions, Confessions

    By Ian Kelly

    Sometimes family planning means to reduce the number of children born, and sometimes to reduce the number could be inappropriate. When there are too few children, to bear and raise more children will contribute to our happiness, and so family planning will be changed accordingly. That is why we changed our name. We are no longer the Family Planning Association. We are now the Planned Population Federation.

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  • Inside Bound4LIFE 6/19/09

    By Matt Lockett

    Weekly updates from Bound4LIFE with Executive Director Matt Lockett.

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  • Rebranding FAIL

    By Matt Lockett

    The debate over health care reform is in full swing. Unfortunately, this administration and the majority of Congress believe that YOUR tax dollars should be used to pay for abortion. Pro-abortion lobbyists are working hard to insure that you have no say-so in the matter. If they get their way, then you will be paying for abortion regardless of your moral convictions.

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  • ...Home Of The Brave?

    By Ian Kelly

    They needed a caring and compassionate physician to help them through this dark moment, and if they chose not to continue the pregnancy, they also needed a physician who was both skilled enough and brave enough to provide them with the care they needed.

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  • Worth So Little

    By Ian Kelly

    A woman named Temeka said her mind was made up before she took a day off from work to visit the clinic. Six weeks pregnant with twins, she decided that giving birth and raising the children would be too much -- on top of her marriage, her mothering of a 1-year-old, her full-time job at a sandwich shop and her studies at a junior college.

    "I have doubts, but I know what I've got to accomplish," said Temeka, 26, who asked that only her first name be used. "I already asked God for forgiveness."

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  • Double Standard

    By Ian Kelly

    Police say the girl's 16-year-old boyfriend, who is the father of the child, another 17-year-old boy and Imler stole the hormone ProstaMate from a farm. The 17-year-old allegedly put a drop of it in the girl's Gatorade in March 2008. The girl's mother has said a friend told her daughter about the drink's contents later that day.

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  • Bypass The Legislature

    By Ian Kelly

    Gov. Sarah Palin is backing a ballot measure to bypass the Legislature and make it illegal for teenagers to get an abortion without telling their parents.

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  • Planned Parenthood Back At It Again

    By Ian Kelly

    A new undercover videotape shows staff at a Tennessee Planned Parenthood abortion clinic urging a client to lie about her potential sexual abuse so she could get an abortion. A girl who said she is 14 and sexually abused by a 31-year-old man was told to hide the information from a judge.

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  • Baby Cries In Womb

    By Ian Kelly

    The Discovery Channel has an amazing video of a fetus, in utero, crying. Yeah, crying. Is a fetus even a real person? Science would say, yes. Planned Parenthood would say, no.

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  • As Seen On Twitter

    By Craig Kuhns

    Just saw these tweets on twitter from someone who had never heard of Bound4LIFE. Honestly this is really cool! If you have no idea what twitter is or why this is so cool check out our post on microblogging 101.

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  • An Angel With Red Tape

    By Ian Kelly

    …I remember the day I saw an angel, she had red tape covering her mouth SCREAMING LIFE!!! God’s eyes were upon me when she looked at me. I was fighting my guilty conscience. I felt her yes breaking through the ice of my fear. Not with condemnation, but with a spiritual voice, whispered to my heart… there is hope.” 

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  • The Results Of Prayer

    By Ian Kelly

    Bound4LIFE’s impact is not only being felt in our Nations capitol but in neighborhoods all across the country. The following story was sent to us from Jim and Teri Kohl in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Jim and Teri not only serve as leaders of a Bound4LIFE chapter they have also pioneered the Heartland House Of Prayer (HHOP).

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  • Black Students For Life

    By Ian Kelly

    The inauguration of the first African-American president fell in conjunction with Martin Luther King Day, and because of this, we were able to reflect upon the journey, the struggles and our achievements as Americans and most importantly as human beings.

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  • Scare Tactics

    By Ian Kelly

    One of the most prominent arguments that pro-choice individuals and organizations make is that prior to Roe v. Wade most abortions were back alley, morbid, bloody, dangerous procedures and that women for the most part were fleeing to the border, heading to the black market or performing self-induced abortions, which lead to higher rates of deaths.

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  • Common Sense

    By Ian Kelly

    What is it about common sense that is so elusive to Planned Parenthood and the rest of the abortion industry?

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  • Planned Parenthood Makes Cuts

    By Ian Kelly

    I know the economic situation we are in right now is rough but some good has come from it. This new story from crainsnewyork.com is right up my alley.

    “Hit with declines in funding from the economic crisis and the Madoff scandal, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America is laying off around 20% of its staff.”

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  • What Bound4LIFE and Margaret Sanger Have in Common

    By Ian Kelly

     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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  • Mike Wallace Interviews Margaret Sanger

    By Ian Kelly

    Margaret Sanger On, September 21st, 1957, Mike Wallace sat down with Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, and asked her about birth control, divorce, and sin. This is an eye-opening interview and is well worth the time it takes to watch. You can watch or read the interview here and is number 21 from the top.

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