US Supreme Court Gives Unanimous Victory to Pro-Life Protesters
Schiedler/Operation Rescue Vindicated
Washington, DC - Feb 28, 2006 The United States Supreme Court issued an unanimous ruling today finally clearing pro-life protesters of a 20-year old suit brought by NOW under the Federal Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organizations (RICO) laws. Joseph Scheidler, a long- time pro-life activist from Chicago, took the lead in defending the case on behalf of over 20 defendants, including Operation Rescue.
In an historic third trip to the nation’s highest court, Justice Stephen Breyer issued the unanimous opinion clearly stating that the case is over and that pro- lifers may not be sued under RICO. This decision also puts an end to a nationwide injunction against the protesters.
“We are very excited to finally see this case put behind us once and for all,” said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman. “This is a victory not only for pro-lifers, who can now exercise their First Amendment rights to speak out about abortion without fear of a RICO suit, but it is also a victory for the women and babies who are entering our nation’s abortion mills, who now will have greater access to more information and practical assistance that can help them spare the lives of their pre-born children.”
“This is a victory that is a long time in coming, but whose arrival was never in doubt,” said Rev. Patrick Mahoney, Director of the Christian Defense Coalition. “Every American owes Joe Scheidler a debt of gratitude for fighting this battle over two decades to preserve freedoms for all Americans.”
Operation Rescue
Troy Newman
President
phone: 316-841-1700
Operation Rescue
Cheryl Sullneger
Outreach Coordinator
phone: 316-516-3034
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
BRIAN ROHRBOUGH'S March for Life speech
inspires others!!
Death for rapists, not their unborn children - Denver Post Letters February 28, 2006
South Dakota passed a bill to end abortions that doesn't include an exemption for cases of rape. That bothers some people. Their thinking, as told in an Associated Press article, is that if a rape victim becomes pregnant and bears a child, the rapist could have the same parental rights as the mother.
The idea that, to prevent a living rapist from being a father of a living child, some think it best to let the rapist live and to kill the child, instead of the other way around, is incredibly moronic.
Obviously, one better solution is to add convicted rapists to the list of those eligible for the death penalty. That would forever rid the child and all of society of a rapist in our lives. Another can be addressed by the legislature and/or the courts wherein rapists have no parental rights whatsoever over any child conceived during a rape.
The fact is that we don't have to think that the only solution is to kill the rapist's children, whether born or unborn, when other solutions are available.
Robert E. Forman, Lakewood
inspires others!!
Death for rapists, not their unborn children - Denver Post Letters February 28, 2006
South Dakota passed a bill to end abortions that doesn't include an exemption for cases of rape. That bothers some people. Their thinking, as told in an Associated Press article, is that if a rape victim becomes pregnant and bears a child, the rapist could have the same parental rights as the mother.
The idea that, to prevent a living rapist from being a father of a living child, some think it best to let the rapist live and to kill the child, instead of the other way around, is incredibly moronic.
Obviously, one better solution is to add convicted rapists to the list of those eligible for the death penalty. That would forever rid the child and all of society of a rapist in our lives. Another can be addressed by the legislature and/or the courts wherein rapists have no parental rights whatsoever over any child conceived during a rape.
The fact is that we don't have to think that the only solution is to kill the rapist's children, whether born or unborn, when other solutions are available.
Robert E. Forman, Lakewood
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
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KATE ADAMSON, (katesjourney.org) Senator
Doug Lamborn, Colorado Right to Life President, Diane Hochevar and Leslie Hanks
at SB 158 committee hearing on nutrition/hydration.
Doug Lamborn, Colorado Right to Life President, Diane Hochevar and Leslie Hanks
at SB 158 committee hearing on nutrition/hydration.
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
JILL STANEK'S MOST RECENT BRILLIANCE!
Don't miss the link to lifecommercials.com
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
Barbequed sacred cows
Posted: February 15, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Jill Stanek
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com
Chicago is no longer my kind of town. It's a liberal Democrat kind of town. It's a town with a gay and lesbian center – funded by taxpayers. It's a town that aborts over 20,000 of its residents a year. It's Jesse Jackson's home town. It's a town where Republicans meet in catacombs. It's a town where even Catholic priests vote 4-to-1 Democrat.
So imagine my surprise when last week the overpowered Cook County Republican Party issued a press release accusing Democrat tyrants of abusing their most prized possession, African Americans.
In conjunction with Black History Month, the Chicago GOP wrote a profound pro-life editorial blaming the Democrat "pro-slavery" Party of "black genocide" because of its pro-abortion position:
One of the most infamous cases ever decided by a Democrat-controlled court was the Dred Scott case ... The result of Dred Scott was to strip African Americans of their standing under the law and thereby prevent them from ever exercising political power for the good of their people. Roe v. Wade subtly accomplishes the same ends by a different means.
The black population is curbed by convincing black mothers that their unborn children are only property which will financially destroy them, so it is in their interests and the interests of society to kill them. African Americans can thank the Democratic Party and its unyielding support for Roe v. Wade ... for today's veritable black genocide. Today's Democrats continue to advocate a society in which certain people are stripped of their humanity and denied political power.
Score a major hit for the GOP.
I don't know what got into those scrappy Republicans, but they weren't finished. They next took aim at Planned Parenthood:
Recent statistics indicate that since 1973, abortion has reduced the black population by over 25 percent. Because abortion has been aggressively peddled to innercity black communities, black babies today are three times more likely to be killed in the womb than white babies. Abortion kills twice as many black babies as AIDS, accidents, violent crimes, cancer and heart disease combined. Although it is possible that Planned Parenthood and its ilk are racially blind, 80 percent of Planned Parenthood facilities are located in minority neighborhoods.
Score a second major hit for the Republicans. Chicago's Planned Parenthood isn't accustomed to attacks. As the Democrat Party's very public mistress, Planned Parenthood is considered untouchable.
I blogged on the Cook County Republican Party's brave effort to bring the truth about the racist agenda of Democrats and Planned Parenthood to African Americans.
I linked in my blog post to an ad by LifeCommercials.com titled, "Why?" This ad exposes the eugenic agenda of Planned Parenthood's founder, Margaret Sanger. I isolated one of Sanger's quotes from the ad as an illustration for my post: "We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population ..."
One place I blog is Illinoize, a gathering hole of political bloggers in the Land Formerly of Lincoln. Illinoize is inhabited predominantly by liberals. I didn't quite fathom before I blogged how sacred are the Democrat Party and Planned Parenthood cows to liberals. But here is one sample of 139 mostly furious comments I received:
Jill Stanek is an animal. Absolutely an animal, and the Cook County GOP, the most irrelevant political organization in the country, is disgusting, and whatever hack consulting firm they're using for this ... are (sic) hate-mongering punks. Margaret Sanger said those words but, of course, meant the exact opposite – she was quoting a concern.
Stanek, you are a misleader, a liar, intellectually dishonest, a queen of the facile analogy, and best of all politically and socially irrelevant. Pathetic. This is absolutely disgusting, and you deserve this type of vitriol, because that is the kind of hate and vitriol you're putting out into the world.
And you thought I was exaggerating about those sacred cows.
Meanwhile, just as Indians revere their untouchable sacred cows while people lay dying in ignorance all around them, so do African Americans continue to revere their two sacred cows.
But I have hope.
Historically speaking, cows don't fare well in Chicago. It was a cow, after all, that kicked over Mrs. O'Leary's lantern and started the Great Chicago Fire.
It's only a matter of time before history repeats, and these two cows torch themselves due to their abortion obsession.
Jill Stanek fought to stop "live-birth abortion" after witnessing one as a registered nurse at Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn, Ill. 2002, President Bush asked Jill to attend his signing of the Born Alive Infants Protection Act. In January 2003, World Magazine named Jill one of the 30 most prominent pro-life leaders of the past 30 years. To learn more, visit Jill's blog, Pro-life Pulse.
Don't miss the link to lifecommercials.com
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
Barbequed sacred cows
Posted: February 15, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Jill Stanek
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com
Chicago is no longer my kind of town. It's a liberal Democrat kind of town. It's a town with a gay and lesbian center – funded by taxpayers. It's a town that aborts over 20,000 of its residents a year. It's Jesse Jackson's home town. It's a town where Republicans meet in catacombs. It's a town where even Catholic priests vote 4-to-1 Democrat.
So imagine my surprise when last week the overpowered Cook County Republican Party issued a press release accusing Democrat tyrants of abusing their most prized possession, African Americans.
In conjunction with Black History Month, the Chicago GOP wrote a profound pro-life editorial blaming the Democrat "pro-slavery" Party of "black genocide" because of its pro-abortion position:
One of the most infamous cases ever decided by a Democrat-controlled court was the Dred Scott case ... The result of Dred Scott was to strip African Americans of their standing under the law and thereby prevent them from ever exercising political power for the good of their people. Roe v. Wade subtly accomplishes the same ends by a different means.
The black population is curbed by convincing black mothers that their unborn children are only property which will financially destroy them, so it is in their interests and the interests of society to kill them. African Americans can thank the Democratic Party and its unyielding support for Roe v. Wade ... for today's veritable black genocide. Today's Democrats continue to advocate a society in which certain people are stripped of their humanity and denied political power.
Score a major hit for the GOP.
I don't know what got into those scrappy Republicans, but they weren't finished. They next took aim at Planned Parenthood:
Recent statistics indicate that since 1973, abortion has reduced the black population by over 25 percent. Because abortion has been aggressively peddled to innercity black communities, black babies today are three times more likely to be killed in the womb than white babies. Abortion kills twice as many black babies as AIDS, accidents, violent crimes, cancer and heart disease combined. Although it is possible that Planned Parenthood and its ilk are racially blind, 80 percent of Planned Parenthood facilities are located in minority neighborhoods.
Score a second major hit for the Republicans. Chicago's Planned Parenthood isn't accustomed to attacks. As the Democrat Party's very public mistress, Planned Parenthood is considered untouchable.
I blogged on the Cook County Republican Party's brave effort to bring the truth about the racist agenda of Democrats and Planned Parenthood to African Americans.
I linked in my blog post to an ad by LifeCommercials.com titled, "Why?" This ad exposes the eugenic agenda of Planned Parenthood's founder, Margaret Sanger. I isolated one of Sanger's quotes from the ad as an illustration for my post: "We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population ..."
One place I blog is Illinoize, a gathering hole of political bloggers in the Land Formerly of Lincoln. Illinoize is inhabited predominantly by liberals. I didn't quite fathom before I blogged how sacred are the Democrat Party and Planned Parenthood cows to liberals. But here is one sample of 139 mostly furious comments I received:
Jill Stanek is an animal. Absolutely an animal, and the Cook County GOP, the most irrelevant political organization in the country, is disgusting, and whatever hack consulting firm they're using for this ... are (sic) hate-mongering punks. Margaret Sanger said those words but, of course, meant the exact opposite – she was quoting a concern.
Stanek, you are a misleader, a liar, intellectually dishonest, a queen of the facile analogy, and best of all politically and socially irrelevant. Pathetic. This is absolutely disgusting, and you deserve this type of vitriol, because that is the kind of hate and vitriol you're putting out into the world.
And you thought I was exaggerating about those sacred cows.
Meanwhile, just as Indians revere their untouchable sacred cows while people lay dying in ignorance all around them, so do African Americans continue to revere their two sacred cows.
But I have hope.
Historically speaking, cows don't fare well in Chicago. It was a cow, after all, that kicked over Mrs. O'Leary's lantern and started the Great Chicago Fire.
It's only a matter of time before history repeats, and these two cows torch themselves due to their abortion obsession.
Jill Stanek fought to stop "live-birth abortion" after witnessing one as a registered nurse at Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn, Ill. 2002, President Bush asked Jill to attend his signing of the Born Alive Infants Protection Act. In January 2003, World Magazine named Jill one of the 30 most prominent pro-life leaders of the past 30 years. To learn more, visit Jill's blog, Pro-life Pulse.
BOBBY SCHINDLER'S STATEMENT FOR SB158
COLORADO NUTRITION/HYDRATION HEARING
FEBRUARY 16, 2005
My name is Bobby Schindler. My sister was Terri Schiavo.
On March 31st of 2005, Terri died of starvation and thirst after having her feeding tube removed by court order on the hearsay testimony of her husband, Michael.
My sister lived in a neurologically compromised state for reasons that are still unknown and my family wanted nothing from anyone but to be granted the permission to care for Terri for the span of her natural life. We were denied.
Terri tenaciously fought for her life for more than 13 days after being deprived of the most basic, natural and constant need that we all share – the need for nourishment – food and water. Terri was not on a respirator, not terminally ill, not dying and not succumbing to any killer disease. She was disabled. She was dependent on others. But, she was still very much a life, a woman and a person.
Throughout the entire history of mankind, never was it held that food and water constituted “medical care”. Our nation now claims food and water to be “medical treatment” instead of ordinary care, to facilitate their removal from persons deemed by the medical industry or the courts as “unworthy of life” primarily for economic reasons. Persons like Terri, with injuries and disabilities, are seen as not being worthy of life, not worth the investment.
It is beyond comprehension that we are seeing a culture of death impose its will upon society’s weakest and most vulnerable members. Every human being is endowed by his or her Creator with inestimable worth. Therefore no human being or agency has the authority to pronounce an innocent person such as my sister as “unworthy of life.”
We, as a society, are standing on a cliff with two clear and utterly polarized choices that we can make: Either we value each other – in spite of disability, or we despise each other based on those limitations.
I urge those in leadership to afford the protections to all weak and vulnerable people which were denied to my sister Terri.
COLORADO NUTRITION/HYDRATION HEARING
FEBRUARY 16, 2005
My name is Bobby Schindler. My sister was Terri Schiavo.
On March 31st of 2005, Terri died of starvation and thirst after having her feeding tube removed by court order on the hearsay testimony of her husband, Michael.
My sister lived in a neurologically compromised state for reasons that are still unknown and my family wanted nothing from anyone but to be granted the permission to care for Terri for the span of her natural life. We were denied.
Terri tenaciously fought for her life for more than 13 days after being deprived of the most basic, natural and constant need that we all share – the need for nourishment – food and water. Terri was not on a respirator, not terminally ill, not dying and not succumbing to any killer disease. She was disabled. She was dependent on others. But, she was still very much a life, a woman and a person.
Throughout the entire history of mankind, never was it held that food and water constituted “medical care”. Our nation now claims food and water to be “medical treatment” instead of ordinary care, to facilitate their removal from persons deemed by the medical industry or the courts as “unworthy of life” primarily for economic reasons. Persons like Terri, with injuries and disabilities, are seen as not being worthy of life, not worth the investment.
It is beyond comprehension that we are seeing a culture of death impose its will upon society’s weakest and most vulnerable members. Every human being is endowed by his or her Creator with inestimable worth. Therefore no human being or agency has the authority to pronounce an innocent person such as my sister as “unworthy of life.”
We, as a society, are standing on a cliff with two clear and utterly polarized choices that we can make: Either we value each other – in spite of disability, or we despise each other based on those limitations.
I urge those in leadership to afford the protections to all weak and vulnerable people which were denied to my sister Terri.
Wednesday, February 01, 2006
WHO IS HALEIGH POUTRE?
Where are Tookie's supporters now?
I have a question for the hordes of bleeding-heart Hollywood stars who joined the "Save Tookie" brigade, bowed their heads in prayer with ex-Crip gangster Snoop Dogg and the Rev. Jesse Jackson and pleaded to save the life of convicted murderer Stanley "Tookie" Williams, and who lobbied so hard for the government to err on the side of life.
Where are you now?
In Boston, an innocent girl was sentenced to death by the state. Her name is Haleigh Poutre. Last fall, she was hospitalized after her stepfather allegedly burned her and beat her unconscious with a baseball bat. Haleigh was kept alive by a feeding tube and ventilator. Doctors said she was "virtually brain dead." They said she was in a "persistent vegetative state." The medical professionals pronounced her "hopeless."
Less than three weeks after Haleigh's hospitalization, the Massachusetts Department of Social Services was raring to remove Haleigh's feeding and breathing tubes. Even her biological mother (deemed unfit to care for Haleigh and whose former boyfriend was accused of sexually abusing the child) wanted her put to death. The only person who wanted Haleigh alive was her stepfather, who will likely be charged with murder if Haleigh dies.
Insane decision
Earlier this month, the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled in favor of killing Haleigh, saying it was "unthinkable" to give the power to make a life-and-death decision to the man accused of putting Haleigh in a coma. Instead, the court did something just as unthinkable: It handed that power to the same child welfare agency that had failed time and time again to protect Haleigh.
According to the Boston Herald, a report by her court-appointed guardian showed that the Massachusetts Department of Social Services had received 17 reports of abuse or neglect involving Haleigh in the three years before her adoptive mother and stepfather were charged with pummeling her into a coma.
"State can let beaten girl die," the headlines trumpeted. But there was just one small complication for all of those who, for whatever reason, were in such a rush to let Haleigh die:
Haleigh is fighting to live.
As state officials prepared to remove Haleigh's life support, she began breathing on her own, responding to stimuli and showing signs of emerging from what doctors had deemed a hopeless condition. Everyone had given up on Haleigh -- except Haleigh.
Unbelievably, the state had weaned Haleigh off her breathing tube before the state Supreme Court ruled -- but the government failed to inform the court of this. Haleigh's medical records and the social service agency's brief remain sealed.
Politicians in Massachusetts are vowing full-scale investigations of the state's incompetent child welfare bureaucrats. But where's the accountability for the medical experts whose faulty diagnosis led to Haleigh's court-approved death sentence? Will they step forward and reveal themselves? Will they explain how they erred? Will they apologize?
It was the "experts'" unequivocal assessments that led the court to declare Haleigh in "an irreversible vegetative state" and to assert "the child could not see, hear, feel or respond." Now, they admit they were wrong. And Haleigh's life depends on the whims of a hopeless agency that didn't think the court needed to know she was breathing on her own.
Wake up
Haleigh's story is a wake-up call to "right-to-die" ideologues who recklessly put such unlimited trust in the medical profession and the nanny state. With such uncertainty surrounding persistent vegetative state diagnoses, the presumption must be in favor of life. Yet, the "right-to-die" lobby's mantra seems to be: When in doubt, pull it out.
While Haleigh clings to life, I've pondered how we might help persuade the plug-pullers to put off the child's state-sanctioned death sentence. I propose nominating her for a Nobel Prize. It bought Williams five extra years.
Jamie Foxx and Susan Sarandon, will you join me?
The writer is a syndicated columnist with Creators Syndicate. She is a 1988 graduate of Holy Spirit High School in Absecon. Contact her at malkin@comcast.net.
Published: January 29. 2006 3:00AM
Where are Tookie's supporters now?
I have a question for the hordes of bleeding-heart Hollywood stars who joined the "Save Tookie" brigade, bowed their heads in prayer with ex-Crip gangster Snoop Dogg and the Rev. Jesse Jackson and pleaded to save the life of convicted murderer Stanley "Tookie" Williams, and who lobbied so hard for the government to err on the side of life.
Where are you now?
In Boston, an innocent girl was sentenced to death by the state. Her name is Haleigh Poutre. Last fall, she was hospitalized after her stepfather allegedly burned her and beat her unconscious with a baseball bat. Haleigh was kept alive by a feeding tube and ventilator. Doctors said she was "virtually brain dead." They said she was in a "persistent vegetative state." The medical professionals pronounced her "hopeless."
Less than three weeks after Haleigh's hospitalization, the Massachusetts Department of Social Services was raring to remove Haleigh's feeding and breathing tubes. Even her biological mother (deemed unfit to care for Haleigh and whose former boyfriend was accused of sexually abusing the child) wanted her put to death. The only person who wanted Haleigh alive was her stepfather, who will likely be charged with murder if Haleigh dies.
Insane decision
Earlier this month, the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled in favor of killing Haleigh, saying it was "unthinkable" to give the power to make a life-and-death decision to the man accused of putting Haleigh in a coma. Instead, the court did something just as unthinkable: It handed that power to the same child welfare agency that had failed time and time again to protect Haleigh.
According to the Boston Herald, a report by her court-appointed guardian showed that the Massachusetts Department of Social Services had received 17 reports of abuse or neglect involving Haleigh in the three years before her adoptive mother and stepfather were charged with pummeling her into a coma.
"State can let beaten girl die," the headlines trumpeted. But there was just one small complication for all of those who, for whatever reason, were in such a rush to let Haleigh die:
Haleigh is fighting to live.
As state officials prepared to remove Haleigh's life support, she began breathing on her own, responding to stimuli and showing signs of emerging from what doctors had deemed a hopeless condition. Everyone had given up on Haleigh -- except Haleigh.
Unbelievably, the state had weaned Haleigh off her breathing tube before the state Supreme Court ruled -- but the government failed to inform the court of this. Haleigh's medical records and the social service agency's brief remain sealed.
Politicians in Massachusetts are vowing full-scale investigations of the state's incompetent child welfare bureaucrats. But where's the accountability for the medical experts whose faulty diagnosis led to Haleigh's court-approved death sentence? Will they step forward and reveal themselves? Will they explain how they erred? Will they apologize?
It was the "experts'" unequivocal assessments that led the court to declare Haleigh in "an irreversible vegetative state" and to assert "the child could not see, hear, feel or respond." Now, they admit they were wrong. And Haleigh's life depends on the whims of a hopeless agency that didn't think the court needed to know she was breathing on her own.
Wake up
Haleigh's story is a wake-up call to "right-to-die" ideologues who recklessly put such unlimited trust in the medical profession and the nanny state. With such uncertainty surrounding persistent vegetative state diagnoses, the presumption must be in favor of life. Yet, the "right-to-die" lobby's mantra seems to be: When in doubt, pull it out.
While Haleigh clings to life, I've pondered how we might help persuade the plug-pullers to put off the child's state-sanctioned death sentence. I propose nominating her for a Nobel Prize. It bought Williams five extra years.
Jamie Foxx and Susan Sarandon, will you join me?
The writer is a syndicated columnist with Creators Syndicate. She is a 1988 graduate of Holy Spirit High School in Absecon. Contact her at malkin@comcast.net.
Published: January 29. 2006 3:00AM
BOBBY SCHINDLER DEFENDS HIS SISTER TERRI
Dear Ms. Young,
I'm writing in response to your column, “Haleigh Poutre is no Terri Schiavo”.
After reading all of the dishonesty that you purport as truths in regard to my sister Terri, I have to say that this is not only the most irresponsible article that I have yet to read from the media regarding Terri’s situation, but possibly the most egregious.
You wrote that, “Schiavo had been in a persistent vegetative state for 15 years, and had undergone a barrage of tests showing that she had no higher brain functioning and no consciousness – a fact on which all unbiased medical experts agreed.”
I want to know how you’ve researched Terri’s case, and how you’ve obtained this information. Could it be that you’ve gathered your ‘facts’ from the other opinion pieces similar to the one you’ve written about Terri?
If you are referring to autopsy that ostensibly proved that Terri was PVS, then you are entirely wrong. The Independent Medical Examiner who performed the autopsy, Dr. Jon Thogmartin, went to great lengths to caution those reviewing Terri’s autopsy that a post-mortem, forensic examination could neither confirm nor refute a diagnosis of persistent vegetative state. This is because PVS is a clinical diagnosis based on the behaviors of a living patient and not forensic pathology.
Moreover, Dr. Stephen Nelson – a consulting pathologist who assisted Dr. Thogmartin with the autopsy report – admitted that, while Terri’s symptoms were consistent with PVS, he could not rule out the possibility that Terri was in a minimally conscious state.
And there are numerous pathologists and physicians that have responded to the autopsy finding as being misleading and ambiguous. This information could have been and still can be easily provided to you.
I wonder if you were you aware that – as indicated in Terri’s medical records – she was talking when given rehabilitation in the months following her injury? This completely refutes the PVS diagnosis.
Additionally, did you know that there were more doctors on record with the court (from some of the most distinguished institutions from across the country) stating that Terri was not in PVS than there were doctors that said she was? Furthermore, most of these affidavits (there are more than 42 in total) submitted by these doctors said that if Terri was given proper therapy, her functioning capacity could have improved. Why was this never reported by the media?
Did you know that a recent British Medical Journal has reported that nearly 43% of all PVS diagnoses are, in fact, misdiagnoses? Based on this report, the Independent Medical Examiner findings, the sworn testimony and affidavits of over 42 physicians, neurologists and other healthcare professionals contradicting that Terri was in PVS, I believe it is incredibly reckless for you to make the sweeping statement that Terri was PVS.
The fact that my sister received no therapy for more than thirteen years, which also was rarely if ever reported by the media, only added to the deterioration of her condition. No autopsy report could have ever determined how much Terri would have improved if she was receiving proper rehabilitation and therapy during the past thirteen years.
To make the statement that, “. . . all unbiased medical experts agreed” as to the condition of my sister is so completely disingenuous that the only conclusion I can draw is that you did absolutely no research into the doctors that evaluated Terri.
Dr. Ronald Cranford, hired by Michael Schiavo, has testified in almost every major case that the removal of the feeding tube should be permitted. He even takes pleasure in the moniker, Dr. Humane Death. To call him ‘unbiased’ is like calling Rush Limbaugh a liberal democrat. And one of the other doctors that testified in my sister trial, Dr. Peter Bambakidis, was later discovered as having ties to same organization as Michael Schiavo’s attorney George Felos.
But aside from all this, what is really sad is that your article and so many others like yours does nothing but discriminate against the disabled by labeling them with this dangerous and subjective PVS diagnosis. The PVS diagnosis was created for one reason and to serve only one purpose – to kill those that are the weakest and most vulnerable among us.
No amount of damage to the brain or level of disability should give anyone the authority to kill. But this is exactly what you are saying - and is now happening all the time - that we can justify the killing of human beings because they have reached a level of profound brain damage that is unacceptable for us to care for them anymore. So, tell me, how long do you give Haliegh to improve before you give up on her and decide that she must die?
What is really shameful though is that I have to respond to articles like yours and defend my sister’s life and explain why her family should have been permitted to love her.
Columnist Nat Hentoff commented on the media and how they have handled my sister’s case. He said that it was so shoddy and inaccurate that it was the worst case of ‘journalistic malpractice’ that he’s seen in 25 years.
It continues.
Bobby Schindler
Dear Ms. Young,
I'm writing in response to your column, “Haleigh Poutre is no Terri Schiavo”.
After reading all of the dishonesty that you purport as truths in regard to my sister Terri, I have to say that this is not only the most irresponsible article that I have yet to read from the media regarding Terri’s situation, but possibly the most egregious.
You wrote that, “Schiavo had been in a persistent vegetative state for 15 years, and had undergone a barrage of tests showing that she had no higher brain functioning and no consciousness – a fact on which all unbiased medical experts agreed.”
I want to know how you’ve researched Terri’s case, and how you’ve obtained this information. Could it be that you’ve gathered your ‘facts’ from the other opinion pieces similar to the one you’ve written about Terri?
If you are referring to autopsy that ostensibly proved that Terri was PVS, then you are entirely wrong. The Independent Medical Examiner who performed the autopsy, Dr. Jon Thogmartin, went to great lengths to caution those reviewing Terri’s autopsy that a post-mortem, forensic examination could neither confirm nor refute a diagnosis of persistent vegetative state. This is because PVS is a clinical diagnosis based on the behaviors of a living patient and not forensic pathology.
Moreover, Dr. Stephen Nelson – a consulting pathologist who assisted Dr. Thogmartin with the autopsy report – admitted that, while Terri’s symptoms were consistent with PVS, he could not rule out the possibility that Terri was in a minimally conscious state.
And there are numerous pathologists and physicians that have responded to the autopsy finding as being misleading and ambiguous. This information could have been and still can be easily provided to you.
I wonder if you were you aware that – as indicated in Terri’s medical records – she was talking when given rehabilitation in the months following her injury? This completely refutes the PVS diagnosis.
Additionally, did you know that there were more doctors on record with the court (from some of the most distinguished institutions from across the country) stating that Terri was not in PVS than there were doctors that said she was? Furthermore, most of these affidavits (there are more than 42 in total) submitted by these doctors said that if Terri was given proper therapy, her functioning capacity could have improved. Why was this never reported by the media?
Did you know that a recent British Medical Journal has reported that nearly 43% of all PVS diagnoses are, in fact, misdiagnoses? Based on this report, the Independent Medical Examiner findings, the sworn testimony and affidavits of over 42 physicians, neurologists and other healthcare professionals contradicting that Terri was in PVS, I believe it is incredibly reckless for you to make the sweeping statement that Terri was PVS.
The fact that my sister received no therapy for more than thirteen years, which also was rarely if ever reported by the media, only added to the deterioration of her condition. No autopsy report could have ever determined how much Terri would have improved if she was receiving proper rehabilitation and therapy during the past thirteen years.
To make the statement that, “. . . all unbiased medical experts agreed” as to the condition of my sister is so completely disingenuous that the only conclusion I can draw is that you did absolutely no research into the doctors that evaluated Terri.
Dr. Ronald Cranford, hired by Michael Schiavo, has testified in almost every major case that the removal of the feeding tube should be permitted. He even takes pleasure in the moniker, Dr. Humane Death. To call him ‘unbiased’ is like calling Rush Limbaugh a liberal democrat. And one of the other doctors that testified in my sister trial, Dr. Peter Bambakidis, was later discovered as having ties to same organization as Michael Schiavo’s attorney George Felos.
But aside from all this, what is really sad is that your article and so many others like yours does nothing but discriminate against the disabled by labeling them with this dangerous and subjective PVS diagnosis. The PVS diagnosis was created for one reason and to serve only one purpose – to kill those that are the weakest and most vulnerable among us.
No amount of damage to the brain or level of disability should give anyone the authority to kill. But this is exactly what you are saying - and is now happening all the time - that we can justify the killing of human beings because they have reached a level of profound brain damage that is unacceptable for us to care for them anymore. So, tell me, how long do you give Haliegh to improve before you give up on her and decide that she must die?
What is really shameful though is that I have to respond to articles like yours and defend my sister’s life and explain why her family should have been permitted to love her.
Columnist Nat Hentoff commented on the media and how they have handled my sister’s case. He said that it was so shoddy and inaccurate that it was the worst case of ‘journalistic malpractice’ that he’s seen in 25 years.
It continues.
Bobby Schindler
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
COLUMBINE DAD'S MARCH FOR LIFE MESSAGE FACES MEDIA BLACKOUT
On January 21, 2006 Brian Rohrbough, father of slain Columbine
student Danny, addressed the annual Colorado Right to Life
March for Life.
Brian told the nearly 700 in attendance that a nation cannot
teach a generation that it is ok to kill innocent pre-born babies
in their mother's wombs and be surprised at a result like
Columbine.
Colorado Right to Life ran controversial radio ads by Brian
in the days running up to the MFL which can be heard
on the Colorado Right to Life web site.
In spite of the ad campaign, the size of the turn out
and the incredibly powerful message given by
a man who knows from experience the toll abortion
has taken on our nation's soul, there was a nearly
complete media black out of Brian's speech.
Denver media would not allow the strong truth
to be proclaimed that the state which began the
abortion holocaust on April 25 1967, has a lot for which to answer.
God help us!
Leslie Hanks
V.P. Colorado Right to Life
On January 21, 2006 Brian Rohrbough, father of slain Columbine
student Danny, addressed the annual Colorado Right to Life
March for Life.
Brian told the nearly 700 in attendance that a nation cannot
teach a generation that it is ok to kill innocent pre-born babies
in their mother's wombs and be surprised at a result like
Columbine.
Colorado Right to Life ran controversial radio ads by Brian
in the days running up to the MFL which can be heard
on the Colorado Right to Life web site.
In spite of the ad campaign, the size of the turn out
and the incredibly powerful message given by
a man who knows from experience the toll abortion
has taken on our nation's soul, there was a nearly
complete media black out of Brian's speech.
Denver media would not allow the strong truth
to be proclaimed that the state which began the
abortion holocaust on April 25 1967, has a lot for which to answer.
God help us!
Leslie Hanks
V.P. Colorado Right to Life
DENVER PROTESTERS CARRY TRUTH TO DENVER'S BLACK NEW HOPE BAPTIST CHURCH
Several Denver sidewalk counsellors have targeted New Hope Baptist Church this week
for hosting a three day seminar featuring disgraced president Clinton's former pastor
Phillip Wogamon.
"Long time pro-abortion advocate Wogaman shouldn't be allowed in a black church considering
over 1,200 black babies die from abortion each day in our nation," said Jo Scott, whose efforts
in front of Denver's 20th and Vine Planned Parenthood clinic saved 104 babies in 2005.
On this past Sunday's picket of the influential black church, a young woman in her 5th month
of pregnancy ran up to the protesters crying and admitted that she had been to the 20th and
Vine killing clinic and turned back because Jo Scott and other protesters were there that day.
The Reverend Peters declined talk show host Bob Enyart's request that he meet with Jo
to thank her for helping to save a baby in his congregation from the abortion industry that
targets his community.
www.lifecommercials.com has a new 60 second tv ad exposing the racist plan of Planned Parenthood's
founder, Margaret Sanger.
Life Commercials founder, Steve Curtis, has expressed a desire to take his ad campaign to New Hope Baptist Church
to help them understand the danger of hosting pro-abortion advocates in their sanctuary.
Several Denver sidewalk counsellors have targeted New Hope Baptist Church this week
for hosting a three day seminar featuring disgraced president Clinton's former pastor
Phillip Wogamon.
"Long time pro-abortion advocate Wogaman shouldn't be allowed in a black church considering
over 1,200 black babies die from abortion each day in our nation," said Jo Scott, whose efforts
in front of Denver's 20th and Vine Planned Parenthood clinic saved 104 babies in 2005.
On this past Sunday's picket of the influential black church, a young woman in her 5th month
of pregnancy ran up to the protesters crying and admitted that she had been to the 20th and
Vine killing clinic and turned back because Jo Scott and other protesters were there that day.
The Reverend Peters declined talk show host Bob Enyart's request that he meet with Jo
to thank her for helping to save a baby in his congregation from the abortion industry that
targets his community.
www.lifecommercials.com has a new 60 second tv ad exposing the racist plan of Planned Parenthood's
founder, Margaret Sanger.
Life Commercials founder, Steve Curtis, has expressed a desire to take his ad campaign to New Hope Baptist Church
to help them understand the danger of hosting pro-abortion advocates in their sanctuary.
Friday, January 20, 2006
COLUMBINE AND ABORTION AD CAUSING CONTROVERSY
AND IRE FOR DENVER RADIO AUDIENCES
Brian Rohrbough, father of Danny who was slain in the Columbine
massacre,
made the case on the popular KHOW afternoon Caplis and Silverman show
yesterday that he believes there is a link between abortion and the
Columbine
murders. Colorado Right to Life is airing a commercial on KHOW radio
making the connection between Columbine and America’s first abortion law
passed in Colorado and signed April 25, 1967. The ad is promoting the
Colorado
Right to Life – MARCH FOR LIFE – January 21 st 2006 at 1:30 pm at the
Colorado
State Capitol.
Talk show host, Dan Caplis, admitted during the Rohrbough interview
that the radio
Commercial is causing controversy and even ire among Denver listeners to
the
Caplis and Silverman show.
Some, including Craig Silverman, feel sorry that Danny’s death is
being used
to promote the March for Life. Others think it is wrong that the father of
an innocent child murdered at Columbine would stand up and say its time to
stop the murder of all innocent children.
Colorado Right to Life Vice President, Leslie Hanks, applauds Brian
Rohrbough’s courage. “ It is about time someone spoke the truth so boldly!
Brian is saying what
our elected officials should have been saying for the nearly forty years
that innocent
pre-born babies have been murdered in their mother’s wombs”
The controversial radio ad can be heard on www.coloradorighttolife.org
--------------------------------------------------------------------
AND IRE FOR DENVER RADIO AUDIENCES
Brian Rohrbough, father of Danny who was slain in the Columbine
massacre,
made the case on the popular KHOW afternoon Caplis and Silverman show
yesterday that he believes there is a link between abortion and the
Columbine
murders. Colorado Right to Life is airing a commercial on KHOW radio
making the connection between Columbine and America’s first abortion law
passed in Colorado and signed April 25, 1967. The ad is promoting the
Colorado
Right to Life – MARCH FOR LIFE – January 21 st 2006 at 1:30 pm at the
Colorado
State Capitol.
Talk show host, Dan Caplis, admitted during the Rohrbough interview
that the radio
Commercial is causing controversy and even ire among Denver listeners to
the
Caplis and Silverman show.
Some, including Craig Silverman, feel sorry that Danny’s death is
being used
to promote the March for Life. Others think it is wrong that the father of
an innocent child murdered at Columbine would stand up and say its time to
stop the murder of all innocent children.
Colorado Right to Life Vice President, Leslie Hanks, applauds Brian
Rohrbough’s courage. “ It is about time someone spoke the truth so boldly!
Brian is saying what
our elected officials should have been saying for the nearly forty years
that innocent
pre-born babies have been murdered in their mother’s wombs”
The controversial radio ad can be heard on www.coloradorighttolife.org
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Thursday, January 19, 2006
New York Daily News - http://www.nydailynews.com
91,700 abortions in city
BY PAUL H.B. SHIN
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Sunday, January 15th, 2006
For every 100 babies born in New York City, women had 74 abortions in 2004, according to newly released figures that reaffirm the city as the abortion capital of the country.
And abortions for out-of-town women performed in the city increased from 57 to 70 out of every 1,000 between 1996 and 2004, a subtle yet noticeable trend that experts say may reflect growing hurdles against the procedure in more conservative parts of the country.
The new Vital Statistics report released by the city Department of Health this month shows there were 124,100 live births, 11,700 spontaneous abortions and 91,700 induced abortions in the city in 2004.
That means 40 out of 100 pregnancies in the city ended in a planned abortion - almost double the national average of 24 of 100 pregnancies in 2002, estimated by the Alan Guttmacher Institute, a Manhattan-based nonprofit group that researches reproductive health issues.
The city's role as a haven for women seeking to end pregnancies may become more pronounced as other states continue to adopt more legal restrictions against abortions - such as laws requiring mandatory waiting periods (25 states), parental consent or notification for minors (35 states) and two visits before an abortion (six states).
"If clinics are hard to get to, or the services are just unavailable, people are going to travel to get what in my mind is a critical public health service," said Joan Malin, president of Planned Parenthood of New York City.
The organization's Margaret Sanger Center in Manhattan is the largest abortion provider in New York, with 11,000 abortions performed a year.
Out-of-towners make up less than 2% of those receiving abortions at the center, but the number has gone up more than 20% in the last year, Malin said.
But abortion opponents called the city's high rate of procedures a "tragic" result of "marketing the culture of death."
"New York City has fashioned itself as being the philosophical center of 'abortion on demand,' and it has a thriving industry to show for it," said Christina Fadden Fitch, legislative director of the New York State Right to Life Committee.
The influx into the city of women seeking abortions could become a deluge - as it was in the early 1970s - if the landmark Roe vs. Wade decision legalizing abortions nationwide is repealed.
"If Roe vs. Wade were overturned and some states outlawed abortions, it's certainly possible we might begin to see more of the interstate travel we saw before," said Lawrence Finer, director for domestic research at the Guttmacher Institute.
That is what abortion-rights advocates feel may happen if Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito is appointed to the bench.
At his Senate confirmation hearings this week, Alito refused to describe Roe vs. Wade as a settled precedent. Under grilling from Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), he also refused to distance himself from his 1985 opinion stating that women do not have a constitutional right to an abortion.
"The evidence is clear that Judge Alito opposes the constitutional right for a woman to choose an abortion, and were he to be confirmed, I would really be concerned about the future of Roe [vs. Wade] and the future of access, particularly for poor women," Malin said.
The Center for Reproductive Rights, an abortion-rights advocacy group, estimates that if Roe vs. Wade were overturned, abortions would likely be banned in 21 states, with the procedure at "medium risk" of being prohibited in another nine states.
91,700 abortions in city
BY PAUL H.B. SHIN
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Sunday, January 15th, 2006
For every 100 babies born in New York City, women had 74 abortions in 2004, according to newly released figures that reaffirm the city as the abortion capital of the country.
And abortions for out-of-town women performed in the city increased from 57 to 70 out of every 1,000 between 1996 and 2004, a subtle yet noticeable trend that experts say may reflect growing hurdles against the procedure in more conservative parts of the country.
The new Vital Statistics report released by the city Department of Health this month shows there were 124,100 live births, 11,700 spontaneous abortions and 91,700 induced abortions in the city in 2004.
That means 40 out of 100 pregnancies in the city ended in a planned abortion - almost double the national average of 24 of 100 pregnancies in 2002, estimated by the Alan Guttmacher Institute, a Manhattan-based nonprofit group that researches reproductive health issues.
The city's role as a haven for women seeking to end pregnancies may become more pronounced as other states continue to adopt more legal restrictions against abortions - such as laws requiring mandatory waiting periods (25 states), parental consent or notification for minors (35 states) and two visits before an abortion (six states).
"If clinics are hard to get to, or the services are just unavailable, people are going to travel to get what in my mind is a critical public health service," said Joan Malin, president of Planned Parenthood of New York City.
The organization's Margaret Sanger Center in Manhattan is the largest abortion provider in New York, with 11,000 abortions performed a year.
Out-of-towners make up less than 2% of those receiving abortions at the center, but the number has gone up more than 20% in the last year, Malin said.
But abortion opponents called the city's high rate of procedures a "tragic" result of "marketing the culture of death."
"New York City has fashioned itself as being the philosophical center of 'abortion on demand,' and it has a thriving industry to show for it," said Christina Fadden Fitch, legislative director of the New York State Right to Life Committee.
The influx into the city of women seeking abortions could become a deluge - as it was in the early 1970s - if the landmark Roe vs. Wade decision legalizing abortions nationwide is repealed.
"If Roe vs. Wade were overturned and some states outlawed abortions, it's certainly possible we might begin to see more of the interstate travel we saw before," said Lawrence Finer, director for domestic research at the Guttmacher Institute.
That is what abortion-rights advocates feel may happen if Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito is appointed to the bench.
At his Senate confirmation hearings this week, Alito refused to describe Roe vs. Wade as a settled precedent. Under grilling from Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), he also refused to distance himself from his 1985 opinion stating that women do not have a constitutional right to an abortion.
"The evidence is clear that Judge Alito opposes the constitutional right for a woman to choose an abortion, and were he to be confirmed, I would really be concerned about the future of Roe [vs. Wade] and the future of access, particularly for poor women," Malin said.
The Center for Reproductive Rights, an abortion-rights advocacy group, estimates that if Roe vs. Wade were overturned, abortions would likely be banned in 21 states, with the procedure at "medium risk" of being prohibited in another nine states.
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
What would Dr. King say?
By Joseph Farah
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com
What is the leading cause of death among blacks in America today?
Is it gang murders?
Is it AIDS?
Accidents?
Cancer?
Sickle-cell anemia?
Heart disease?
Auto accidents?
Drugs?
Guess again.
In fact, if you combined all of these plagues together – and every other cause among the black population – they would not represent even half of the total number of abortions of unborn black babies in America.
That's right, abortion is the leading cause of death among blacks in America and twice as many unborn black babies are killed than by all other causes of death combined.
With all of the hand-wringing that goes on every year around Martin Luther King's birthday about the state of the black community in America, this may be the most overlooked statistic of all.
About 1,452 black babies are killed every day in America. Black women "choose" to have 32 percent of abortions that take place in the country, despite representing only 12 percent of the population. According to the Centers for Disease Control, "the abortion rate for black women was 3.1 times the rate for white women."
As Kelly Hollowell points out in her critically important new book, "Struggling For Life: How Your Tax Dollars and Twisted Science Target the Unborn," without abortion, America's black community would be 35 percent larger than it is today. It would represent a total population of 41 million. In total, every fourth member of the U.S. black population has been eliminated by abortion.
If this were happening in some other country, Americans might be able to see the phenomenon for what it truly is – genocide.
We might also be able to see that this is no accident.
The very same forces that have promoted this horrific policy from the start – as a means of lowering the black population – showed their cards long ago about their true intentions.
Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion company in America and throughout the world, was candid about her aims by the time she opened her first clinic in the 1920s:
[If] we can train the Negro doctor at the clinic, he can go among them with enthusiasm and with knowledge, which, I believe, will have far-reaching results ... His work, in my opinion, should be entirely with the Negro profession and the nurses, hospitals, social workers, as well as the country's white doctors. His success will depend upon his personality and his training by us.
The minister's work is also important, and also he should be trained, perhaps by the federation, as to our ideals and the goal that we hope to reach. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs.
The fact that this non-profit company, Planned Parenthood, today receives hundreds of millions of dollars from the U.S. federal government – more today, under Republican leadership in the Congress and White House, than ever before – should be at least as troubling to blacks as it is to the pro-life community that wants to end the massive, subsidized killing through abortion for everyone.
As Hollowell puts it so effectively in her new book:
Imagine a country that forced its citizens to fund an organization which, by itself, was the third leading cause of death in that nation. In addition to operating an industry of death, imagine that this organization targeted communities based on race, fought tooth and nail to undermine parental rights and exposed teens to the most debauched forms of sexual perversion imaginable.
"Well, that is no imaginary nation," she writes. "In fact, you are living in it, if you call America your home."
As the nation marks the birthday of Martin Luther King this week, I began to wonder what he might think of such a development had he lived to see it.
Would he be part of the problem, like so many of his followers, including Jesse Jackson?
Would he condone the extermination of 25 percent of his community?
Would he accept the massive taxpayer funding of the machine that makes it all possible?
What would Dr. King say?
Get your copy of Kelly Hollowell's eye-opening new book, "Struggling for Life: How our Tax Dollars and Twisted Science Target the Unborn."
Joseph Farah is founder, editor and CEO of WND and a nationally syndicated columnist with Creators Syndicate.
What would Dr. King say?
By Joseph Farah
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com
What is the leading cause of death among blacks in America today?
Is it gang murders?
Is it AIDS?
Accidents?
Cancer?
Sickle-cell anemia?
Heart disease?
Auto accidents?
Drugs?
Guess again.
In fact, if you combined all of these plagues together – and every other cause among the black population – they would not represent even half of the total number of abortions of unborn black babies in America.
That's right, abortion is the leading cause of death among blacks in America and twice as many unborn black babies are killed than by all other causes of death combined.
With all of the hand-wringing that goes on every year around Martin Luther King's birthday about the state of the black community in America, this may be the most overlooked statistic of all.
About 1,452 black babies are killed every day in America. Black women "choose" to have 32 percent of abortions that take place in the country, despite representing only 12 percent of the population. According to the Centers for Disease Control, "the abortion rate for black women was 3.1 times the rate for white women."
As Kelly Hollowell points out in her critically important new book, "Struggling For Life: How Your Tax Dollars and Twisted Science Target the Unborn," without abortion, America's black community would be 35 percent larger than it is today. It would represent a total population of 41 million. In total, every fourth member of the U.S. black population has been eliminated by abortion.
If this were happening in some other country, Americans might be able to see the phenomenon for what it truly is – genocide.
We might also be able to see that this is no accident.
The very same forces that have promoted this horrific policy from the start – as a means of lowering the black population – showed their cards long ago about their true intentions.
Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion company in America and throughout the world, was candid about her aims by the time she opened her first clinic in the 1920s:
[If] we can train the Negro doctor at the clinic, he can go among them with enthusiasm and with knowledge, which, I believe, will have far-reaching results ... His work, in my opinion, should be entirely with the Negro profession and the nurses, hospitals, social workers, as well as the country's white doctors. His success will depend upon his personality and his training by us.
The minister's work is also important, and also he should be trained, perhaps by the federation, as to our ideals and the goal that we hope to reach. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs.
The fact that this non-profit company, Planned Parenthood, today receives hundreds of millions of dollars from the U.S. federal government – more today, under Republican leadership in the Congress and White House, than ever before – should be at least as troubling to blacks as it is to the pro-life community that wants to end the massive, subsidized killing through abortion for everyone.
As Hollowell puts it so effectively in her new book:
Imagine a country that forced its citizens to fund an organization which, by itself, was the third leading cause of death in that nation. In addition to operating an industry of death, imagine that this organization targeted communities based on race, fought tooth and nail to undermine parental rights and exposed teens to the most debauched forms of sexual perversion imaginable.
"Well, that is no imaginary nation," she writes. "In fact, you are living in it, if you call America your home."
As the nation marks the birthday of Martin Luther King this week, I began to wonder what he might think of such a development had he lived to see it.
Would he be part of the problem, like so many of his followers, including Jesse Jackson?
Would he condone the extermination of 25 percent of his community?
Would he accept the massive taxpayer funding of the machine that makes it all possible?
What would Dr. King say?
Get your copy of Kelly Hollowell's eye-opening new book, "Struggling for Life: How our Tax Dollars and Twisted Science Target the Unborn."
Joseph Farah is founder, editor and CEO of WND and a nationally syndicated columnist with Creators Syndicate.
Wednesday, January 11, 2006
Having met with Pastors Conn and Ware, I am currently persuaded that
Buddy does not support starving the disabled and was not aware
of the parent's decision to end Dylan's life, as the story implied.
In attempting to get clarification from Kevin Simpson, he
said he stands by his story.
I look forward to a complete repudiation of the notion
that the role of "faith" encouraged the family in their determination
that it was appropriate to starve Dylan for 24 days, unto death.
Leslie Hanks
V.P. Colorado Right to Life
Buddy does not support starving the disabled and was not aware
of the parent's decision to end Dylan's life, as the story implied.
In attempting to get clarification from Kevin Simpson, he
said he stands by his story.
I look forward to a complete repudiation of the notion
that the role of "faith" encouraged the family in their determination
that it was appropriate to starve Dylan for 24 days, unto death.
Leslie Hanks
V.P. Colorado Right to Life
Monday, January 09, 2006
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact: Leslie Hanks
January 9, 2006
COLUMBINE DAD SPEAKS FOR LIFE:
“ Abortion is always Wrong!”
Brian and Lisa Rohrbough were invited to speak at the 4th annual
Perinatal/
Neonatal Medical Ethics Conference, held on March 13, 2005 at Memorial
Hospital in Colorado Springs. In attendance were doctors, nurses, and
ethics
professors from around the state and the country. This conference took
place
just days after the court ordered starvation of Terri Schiavo. Find out why
Brian was invited and hear his insightful perspective at the Colorado Right
to Life March for Life on January 21, 2006.
“Throughout history, any country that has refused to protect its
people, especially
the most vulnerable – the weak, the sick, the innocent, the children – have
all
collapsed. In the United States, we accept the murder of children through
abortion. Abortion is promoted in our schools, in our government, and
sadly sometimes
in our churches. This teaches children that life isn’t valuable and now
many believe
they can and should murder their classmates. The Columbine murderers
stated this in
their basement videos.” Brian Rohrbough.
COLORADO RIGHT TO LIFE’S
MARCH FOR LIFE 2006
January 21, 2006
Colorado State Capitol
1:30 P.M.
January 9, 2006
COLUMBINE DAD SPEAKS FOR LIFE:
“ Abortion is always Wrong!”
Brian and Lisa Rohrbough were invited to speak at the 4th annual
Perinatal/
Neonatal Medical Ethics Conference, held on March 13, 2005 at Memorial
Hospital in Colorado Springs. In attendance were doctors, nurses, and
ethics
professors from around the state and the country. This conference took
place
just days after the court ordered starvation of Terri Schiavo. Find out why
Brian was invited and hear his insightful perspective at the Colorado Right
to Life March for Life on January 21, 2006.
“Throughout history, any country that has refused to protect its
people, especially
the most vulnerable – the weak, the sick, the innocent, the children – have
all
collapsed. In the United States, we accept the murder of children through
abortion. Abortion is promoted in our schools, in our government, and
sadly sometimes
in our churches. This teaches children that life isn’t valuable and now
many believe
they can and should murder their classmates. The Columbine murderers
stated this in
their basement videos.” Brian Rohrbough.
COLORADO RIGHT TO LIFE’S
MARCH FOR LIFE 2006
January 21, 2006
Colorado State Capitol
1:30 P.M.
Tuesday, January 03, 2006
Wednesday, December 28, 2005
TO THE DENVER POST:
Editor,
Kevin Simpson's piece, "Letting Dylan Go," merits the
nation's most morally repugnant story of 2005.
Your decision to get the Exclusive by waiting until
Dylan's "journey" to the grave was complete is
reprehensible!
Readers might feel like they are reading a Twilight Zone
episode if they don't think about the reality of a disabled child starving
for 24 days, unto death.
Of course the whole sordid tale had the blessing of
the parent's spiritual leader, Pastor Conn - could a name be more apropos?
A morality tale at Christmas lacking love, hope, faith or
sacrifice - the real reasons for the season.
Leslie Hanks
V.P. Colorado Right to Life
Editor,
Kevin Simpson's piece, "Letting Dylan Go," merits the
nation's most morally repugnant story of 2005.
Your decision to get the Exclusive by waiting until
Dylan's "journey" to the grave was complete is
reprehensible!
Readers might feel like they are reading a Twilight Zone
episode if they don't think about the reality of a disabled child starving
for 24 days, unto death.
Of course the whole sordid tale had the blessing of
the parent's spiritual leader, Pastor Conn - could a name be more apropos?
A morality tale at Christmas lacking love, hope, faith or
sacrifice - the real reasons for the season.
Leslie Hanks
V.P. Colorado Right to Life
Wednesday, December 21, 2005
Tuesday, December 13, 2005
SELFLESS COURAGE! Inspiration at Christmas
The Washington Times ^ | 12/11/2005
Posted on 12/13/2005 8:49:21 AM MST by Rutles4Ever
A mother who found out she had cancer after becoming pregnant sacrificed her life for her unborn baby by refusing an abortion and chemotherapy, a British newspaper reported.
Devout Catholic Bernadette Mimura, known as Milai, shunned the potentially life-saving treatment because doctors told her it would kill the child, the Northern Echo regional daily reported Friday.
The 37-year-old, a native of the Philippines who lived near Stockton-on-Tees in northeast England with her British partner, Adam Taylor, survived long enough to see the birth of their son, Nathan.
But soon after seeing him baptized, she was transferred to a hospice and died about a week later.
"Being a Catholic, for her abortion was out of the question," Mr. Taylor told the newspaper. "It was a tough decision, but the decision was we could not give up on Nathan."
The boy, now 4 months old, was premature but was born fit and healthy.
Father Alan Sheridan, who performed the baptism, told Britain's domestic Press Association news agency: "Bernadette said the most important thing was the birth of her baby and she would not do anything to harm him.
"Having an abortion was never a consideration. I know she talked it over with Adam and because she was a Catholic, there was no way she would have done it.
"She had to judge which life was more important and she just prayed there would be a cure for cancer." Father Sheridan is spearheading an appeal to raise $6,490 to repatriate Mrs. Mimura's body to the Philippines for burial. Money left over will help her other three children from a first marriage.
The priest said he hoped the Manila government would help with a grant to fly the three youngsters from Britain for the ceremony.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
The Washington Times ^ | 12/11/2005
Posted on 12/13/2005 8:49:21 AM MST by Rutles4Ever
A mother who found out she had cancer after becoming pregnant sacrificed her life for her unborn baby by refusing an abortion and chemotherapy, a British newspaper reported.
Devout Catholic Bernadette Mimura, known as Milai, shunned the potentially life-saving treatment because doctors told her it would kill the child, the Northern Echo regional daily reported Friday.
The 37-year-old, a native of the Philippines who lived near Stockton-on-Tees in northeast England with her British partner, Adam Taylor, survived long enough to see the birth of their son, Nathan.
But soon after seeing him baptized, she was transferred to a hospice and died about a week later.
"Being a Catholic, for her abortion was out of the question," Mr. Taylor told the newspaper. "It was a tough decision, but the decision was we could not give up on Nathan."
The boy, now 4 months old, was premature but was born fit and healthy.
Father Alan Sheridan, who performed the baptism, told Britain's domestic Press Association news agency: "Bernadette said the most important thing was the birth of her baby and she would not do anything to harm him.
"Having an abortion was never a consideration. I know she talked it over with Adam and because she was a Catholic, there was no way she would have done it.
"She had to judge which life was more important and she just prayed there would be a cure for cancer." Father Sheridan is spearheading an appeal to raise $6,490 to repatriate Mrs. Mimura's body to the Philippines for burial. Money left over will help her other three children from a first marriage.
The priest said he hoped the Manila government would help with a grant to fly the three youngsters from Britain for the ceremony.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact: Leslie Hanks
December 3, 2005
720-394-8946
FATHER OF SLAIN COLUMBINE STUDENT:
“ABORTION IS ALWAYS WRONG!”
Brian Rohrbough, father of Danny who was murdered in the Columbine
massacre, will address the 2006 MARCH FOR LIFE.
The annual event, sponsored by Colorado Right to Life, will be Saturday
January 21, 2006 at the State Capitol beginning at 1:30 p.m.
Brian understands the killings at Columbine are linked with the teaching of
several
generations that taking the lives of pre-born babies through abortion, is
acceptable.
“When we allow mothers to murder their children, we undermine the
foundation of life.
If our society teaches children that we will not value or protect the life
of an innocent
baby, then our children will realize there are no boundaries
“When schools, like Columbine, deny that life is granted by our Creator
as our Declaration of Independence states, then teach as a religion the
theory of evolution, students now believe that the survival of the fittest
is their right. Further, when schools teach that there is no absolute right
or wrong, students can decide for themselves if they want to murder their
classmates.
“Brian Rohrbough is a hero for his courage in stating what our elected
officials
should be saying,” notes Leslie Hanks, V.P. Colorado Right to Life.
“The incredible pain and loss in his life has taught him that all human
life is sacred
and worthy of legal protection. He knows that Colorado began the abortion
holocaust which has led to the unjust taking of nearly 50 million innocent
lives
and the deaths of nearly 60 students in related school shootings in the
U.S..”
Coloradoans are invited to hear Brian Rhorbough’s timely and critical
challenge for
Colorado to lead America back to the legal protection of all innocent human
life, from fertilization through natural death, because abortion is always
wrong.”
December 3, 2005
720-394-8946
FATHER OF SLAIN COLUMBINE STUDENT:
“ABORTION IS ALWAYS WRONG!”
Brian Rohrbough, father of Danny who was murdered in the Columbine
massacre, will address the 2006 MARCH FOR LIFE.
The annual event, sponsored by Colorado Right to Life, will be Saturday
January 21, 2006 at the State Capitol beginning at 1:30 p.m.
Brian understands the killings at Columbine are linked with the teaching of
several
generations that taking the lives of pre-born babies through abortion, is
acceptable.
“When we allow mothers to murder their children, we undermine the
foundation of life.
If our society teaches children that we will not value or protect the life
of an innocent
baby, then our children will realize there are no boundaries
“When schools, like Columbine, deny that life is granted by our Creator
as our Declaration of Independence states, then teach as a religion the
theory of evolution, students now believe that the survival of the fittest
is their right. Further, when schools teach that there is no absolute right
or wrong, students can decide for themselves if they want to murder their
classmates.
“Brian Rohrbough is a hero for his courage in stating what our elected
officials
should be saying,” notes Leslie Hanks, V.P. Colorado Right to Life.
“The incredible pain and loss in his life has taught him that all human
life is sacred
and worthy of legal protection. He knows that Colorado began the abortion
holocaust which has led to the unjust taking of nearly 50 million innocent
lives
and the deaths of nearly 60 students in related school shootings in the
U.S..”
Coloradoans are invited to hear Brian Rhorbough’s timely and critical
challenge for
Colorado to lead America back to the legal protection of all innocent human
life, from fertilization through natural death, because abortion is always
wrong.”
GOD HELP US!!!
Salk Institute Grows Human Brain Cells in Mice
“Man-Mice” creations show how far medical ethics has degraded
La Jolla, CA – Scientists at the Salk Institute have created human/mouse chimeras by injecting the brains of mice with human embryonic stem cells obtained by killing live human embryos. Chimeras are mixture of human and animal species that cannot develop in nature.
Operation Rescue, one of the first groups to publicly oppose experimentation using live human embryos, expresses shock and horror at this latest revelation, showing how far ethical barriers within the medical research community have collapsed.
“Human embryonic stem cells are harvested by killing live and developing human embryos before cell differentiation has begun. This alone should present problems for ethicists,” said Operation Rescue spokesperson Cheryl Sullenger who has authored a number of published articles decrying human experimentation. “But to inject the cells from these humans beings into the brains of mice creates new ethical considerations. We have no idea of the consequences of such actions. Creating a new breed of man-mice should be shocking and unacceptable to anyone who values and respects human life. Just a decade ago, it would have been.”
“Adult stem cell treatments have shown much greater promise than the use of stem cells stripped from live human embryos. There is not one person alive today that has benefited from embryonic stem cells, but there are many who have had their lives improved with emerging adult stem cell treatments,” said Sullenger.
“Yet researchers continue to insist upon using life-destructive research, when there is more promise with research that does not take innocent life. This is an indicator that the ethics of the medical research community have eroded to the point where they apparently can no longer see why the degradation of life through these appalling experiments is wrong,” continued Sullenger.
The Salk Institute is revered the world over for the discovery of it founder, Jonas Salk, of the cure for Polio.
“It is sad to see this institution, which was once dedicated to saving lives, so callously pervert and destroy the lives of the most vulnerable among us in a depraved quest for medical advancement.
“Research derived from such human loss and degradation must not be accepted by civilized men and women. The price we will have to pay, morally and ethically, is just too high. This crosses the line of decency,” she said. “Where will it stop?”
______________________
Operation Rescue is one of the leading pro-life Christian organizations in the nation. Its activities are on the cutting edge of the abortion issue, taking direct action to restore legal personhood to the pre-born and stop abortion in obedience to biblical mandates.
Web site:http://operationrescue.org
Salk Institute Grows Human Brain Cells in Mice
“Man-Mice” creations show how far medical ethics has degraded
La Jolla, CA – Scientists at the Salk Institute have created human/mouse chimeras by injecting the brains of mice with human embryonic stem cells obtained by killing live human embryos. Chimeras are mixture of human and animal species that cannot develop in nature.
Operation Rescue, one of the first groups to publicly oppose experimentation using live human embryos, expresses shock and horror at this latest revelation, showing how far ethical barriers within the medical research community have collapsed.
“Human embryonic stem cells are harvested by killing live and developing human embryos before cell differentiation has begun. This alone should present problems for ethicists,” said Operation Rescue spokesperson Cheryl Sullenger who has authored a number of published articles decrying human experimentation. “But to inject the cells from these humans beings into the brains of mice creates new ethical considerations. We have no idea of the consequences of such actions. Creating a new breed of man-mice should be shocking and unacceptable to anyone who values and respects human life. Just a decade ago, it would have been.”
“Adult stem cell treatments have shown much greater promise than the use of stem cells stripped from live human embryos. There is not one person alive today that has benefited from embryonic stem cells, but there are many who have had their lives improved with emerging adult stem cell treatments,” said Sullenger.
“Yet researchers continue to insist upon using life-destructive research, when there is more promise with research that does not take innocent life. This is an indicator that the ethics of the medical research community have eroded to the point where they apparently can no longer see why the degradation of life through these appalling experiments is wrong,” continued Sullenger.
The Salk Institute is revered the world over for the discovery of it founder, Jonas Salk, of the cure for Polio.
“It is sad to see this institution, which was once dedicated to saving lives, so callously pervert and destroy the lives of the most vulnerable among us in a depraved quest for medical advancement.
“Research derived from such human loss and degradation must not be accepted by civilized men and women. The price we will have to pay, morally and ethically, is just too high. This crosses the line of decency,” she said. “Where will it stop?”
______________________
Operation Rescue is one of the leading pro-life Christian organizations in the nation. Its activities are on the cutting edge of the abortion issue, taking direct action to restore legal personhood to the pre-born and stop abortion in obedience to biblical mandates.
Web site:http://operationrescue.org
Monday, December 05, 2005
Wednesday, November 9, 2005 - 12:00 AM
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Alito voices no threat to Roe, senators say
By Charles Babington and Michael A. Fletcher
The Washington Post
WASHINGTON — Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito expressed reluctance to overturn long-standing precedents such as the 1973 Roe v. Wade abortion-rights ruling, a move that has helped silence some critics and may resolve a key problem early in the Senate confirmation process, several senators said Tuesday.
In private meetings with senators who support abortion rights, Alito said the Supreme Court should be wary of reversing decisions that have been repeatedly upheld, according to the senators, who said it was clear the context was abortion.
"He basically said ... that Roe was precedent on which people — a lot of people — relied, and been precedent now for decades and therefore deserved great respect," Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., said after meeting with Alito on Tuesday.
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said she had a similar conversation about an hour later with Alito, who has made clear that he personally opposes abortion. "I asked him whether it made a difference to him if he disagreed with the initial decision but it had been reaffirmed several times since then," Collins said. "I was obviously referring to Roe in that question. He assured me that he has tremendous respect for precedent and that his approach is to not overturn cases due to a disagreement with how they were originally decided."
Collins, Lieberman and others cautioned that they did not directly ask Alito if he would vote to overturn Roe and that his comments should not be seen as a guarantee. But the conversations appear to be building Alito's resistance to what might be the biggest impediment to his confirmation: liberals' claims that he is a threat to legalized abortion, which most Americans support, according to polls.
As a moderate Republican who supports abortion rights, Collins is viewed as pivotal to any serious bid to block Alito. She is a member of the bipartisan "Gang of 14," which has agreed to oppose a filibuster unless the nomination involves "extraordinary circumstances." Collins said Tuesday, "At this point, I see no basis for invoking 'extraordinary circumstances' and for anyone to mount a filibuster."
Several Republicans who oppose abortion rights said they are not alarmed by Alito's comments because they believe he will base his decisions on the Constitution and the law, standards they can live with. "I think pro-choice Republicans are feeling more and more comfortable that whatever stand he takes on the Roe issue will be driven by the law, not ideology," said Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.
Alito's confirmation hearing has been set to start Jan. 9.
Material from The Associated Press is included in this report
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Alito voices no threat to Roe, senators say
By Charles Babington and Michael A. Fletcher
The Washington Post
WASHINGTON — Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito expressed reluctance to overturn long-standing precedents such as the 1973 Roe v. Wade abortion-rights ruling, a move that has helped silence some critics and may resolve a key problem early in the Senate confirmation process, several senators said Tuesday.
In private meetings with senators who support abortion rights, Alito said the Supreme Court should be wary of reversing decisions that have been repeatedly upheld, according to the senators, who said it was clear the context was abortion.
"He basically said ... that Roe was precedent on which people — a lot of people — relied, and been precedent now for decades and therefore deserved great respect," Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., said after meeting with Alito on Tuesday.
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said she had a similar conversation about an hour later with Alito, who has made clear that he personally opposes abortion. "I asked him whether it made a difference to him if he disagreed with the initial decision but it had been reaffirmed several times since then," Collins said. "I was obviously referring to Roe in that question. He assured me that he has tremendous respect for precedent and that his approach is to not overturn cases due to a disagreement with how they were originally decided."
Collins, Lieberman and others cautioned that they did not directly ask Alito if he would vote to overturn Roe and that his comments should not be seen as a guarantee. But the conversations appear to be building Alito's resistance to what might be the biggest impediment to his confirmation: liberals' claims that he is a threat to legalized abortion, which most Americans support, according to polls.
As a moderate Republican who supports abortion rights, Collins is viewed as pivotal to any serious bid to block Alito. She is a member of the bipartisan "Gang of 14," which has agreed to oppose a filibuster unless the nomination involves "extraordinary circumstances." Collins said Tuesday, "At this point, I see no basis for invoking 'extraordinary circumstances' and for anyone to mount a filibuster."
Several Republicans who oppose abortion rights said they are not alarmed by Alito's comments because they believe he will base his decisions on the Constitution and the law, standards they can live with. "I think pro-choice Republicans are feeling more and more comfortable that whatever stand he takes on the Roe issue will be driven by the law, not ideology," said Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.
Alito's confirmation hearing has been set to start Jan. 9.
Material from The Associated Press is included in this report
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PLANNED PARENTHOOD'S LOVELY LEGACY
Each year approximately 11,930 teenagers become pregnant in Colorado.
In 1996, the pregnancy rate in Colorado for teen girls 15-17 years old was 58 per 1,000.
In 1999, the CDC reported 280 abortions performed on girls 16 and under in Colorado.
24.1% of Colorado abortions are performed on girls 16 and under.
26,680 teenagers are seen each year at Colorado family planning clinics.
Each year, 12,350 Colorado teenagers receive birth control or other services from Title X clinics.
In Colorado, approximately 9,870 teenagers receive birth control or other services from Planned Parenthood every year.
Each year approximately 11,930 teenagers become pregnant in Colorado.
In 1996, the pregnancy rate in Colorado for teen girls 15-17 years old was 58 per 1,000.
In 1999, the CDC reported 280 abortions performed on girls 16 and under in Colorado.
24.1% of Colorado abortions are performed on girls 16 and under.
26,680 teenagers are seen each year at Colorado family planning clinics.
Each year, 12,350 Colorado teenagers receive birth control or other services from Title X clinics.
In Colorado, approximately 9,870 teenagers receive birth control or other services from Planned Parenthood every year.
Tuesday, November 29, 2005
DECEMBER 3rd TERRI SCHINDLER'S BIRTHDAY.
Terri would be turning 42 this weekend, were it not for her
psychopathic husband Michael, deciding to remove her
food and water - resulting in her starvation/dehydration
death this past spring.
Please take a moment to remember TERRI in your thoughts
and prayers on 12/3 and for justice to prevail for the wicked
who chose to end her life prematurely!!!
Terri would be turning 42 this weekend, were it not for her
psychopathic husband Michael, deciding to remove her
food and water - resulting in her starvation/dehydration
death this past spring.
Please take a moment to remember TERRI in your thoughts
and prayers on 12/3 and for justice to prevail for the wicked
who chose to end her life prematurely!!!
Wednesday, November 23, 2005
WHY BE SURPRISED?
By GARDINER HARRIS
WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 - Federal drug regulators have discovered that all four women in this country who died after taking an abortion pill suffered from a rare and highly lethal bacterial infection, a finding that is leading to new scrutiny of the drug's safety.
Since all four deaths occurred in California, an unusual clustering, the Food and Drug Administration quietly tested to see if abortion pills distributed in California were somehow contaminated. They were not.
Stumped, officials from the F.D.A. and the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have decided to convene a scientific meeting early next year to discuss this medical mystery, according to two drug agency officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the topic.
Among other issues, the experts hope to explore whether the abortion pill, called Mifeprex or RU-486, somehow makes patients vulnerable to an infection with Clostridium sordellii, the lethal bacteria. If so, they will explore how such an infection "could be more easily diagnosed and even prevented," one official said.
Monty Patterson, whose daughter Holly died on Sept. 17, 2003, less than a month after her 18th birthday, said he believed that Mifeprex inhibits the immune system, making women more vulnerable to bacteria.
Mr. Patterson's campaign against Mifeprex helped persuade the family of at least one other woman who died to have tissue samples tested for the presence of the rare bacteria, he said.
"I believe this drug should be taken off the market," Mr. Patterson said.
For now, there is no indication that the F.D.A. is considering restricting access to the drug. Indeed, it has advised doctors against giving antibiotics as a precaution to prevent the rare infections since antibiotic therapy carries its own risks.
Mifeprex has been used in more than 500,000 medical abortions in the United States since its approval in September 2000. The risks of death from infection after using the pill are similar to the risks after surgical abortion or childbirth, said Dr. Steven Galson, director of the F.D.A.'s center for drugs.
Warnings about the drug's possible link with Clostridium sordellii were placed on Mifeprex's label in July, and the drug agency without announcement updated this information on its Web site on Nov. 4 after it discovered that all of the deaths involved the lethal bacteria.
"I think everyone would like to know what exactly is going on regarding these rare and really serious Clostridium sordellii infections that we have seen happen in California," said Dr. Cynthia Summers, a spokeswoman for Danco Laboratories, maker of Mifeprex. "I don't have an answer for you, and because of that I don't have any running theories."
Information about the Clostridium sordellii infections has emerged slowly because the drug agency largely relies on voluntary reports by doctors, patients and others to identify drug problems and side effects.
Ms. Patterson died seven days after taking Mifeprex. She lived in Livermore, Calif.
On Dec. 29, 2003, Vivian Tran, 22, of Costa Mesa, Calif., died six days after taking Mifeprex.
On Jan. 14, 2004, Chanelle Bryant, 22, of Pasadena, Calif., died six days after taking Mifeprex. And on May 24, 2005, Oriane Shevin, 34, of Los Angeles died five days after taking Mifeprex.
In each case, Clostridium sordellii infected the women's uteruses, flourished and then entered their bloodstreams. The bacterium can cause nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and weakness but may not induce fever, so victims often fail to realize how sick they are until it is too late and succumb to toxic shock. Antibiotics are often ineffective once an infection has flourished because even in death, the bacteria release toxins.
The families of Ms. Patterson, Ms. Tran and Ms. Bryant have all filed suit against Danco, claiming the company failed to warn patients of the drug's dangers.
A woman who died in Canada after taking Mifeprex during clinical testing in 2001 also suffered from a Clostridium sordellii infection. No similar deaths have been reported in Europe, where Mifeprex is widely used. But in the United States, most physicians give Mifeprex and an accompanying drug, misoprostol, in a regimen that involves inserting misoprostol vaginally.
Federal drug regulators have not approved this regimen, but it is not unusual for doctors to use drugs differently from how they are officially approved. Studies indicate that this regimen is effective, requires a lower dose of misoprostol, and allows women to undergo the most emotional and painful part of the procedure at home. What is unknown is whether it may somehow contribute to bacterial infections.
Any hint that Mifeprex may cause problems usually leads to a firestorm of criticism directed at the F.D.A., and the meeting scheduled for next year is bound to incite controversy. A 1996 federal advisory committee that recommended the drug's approval met under intense security in a windowless building surrounded by federal marshals.
Wendy Wright, executive vice president of Concerned Women for America, a conservative group, said that the latest news about deaths involving Mifeprex proved that the drug was unsafe. Ms. Wright also speculated that more women were dying after using the drug but that their deaths were going unreported.
"I'm pleased that the F.D.A. is taking a serious look at this," she said, "and hope that they will no longer allow this drug to be available to cause the deaths of more women."
Dr. Scott J. Spear, chairman of the national medical committee of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the nation's largest provider of abortions, said there was no evidence that the vaginal administration of misoprostol increased the risks of bacterial infections.
"They're all in California, so is this a local issue?" Dr. Spear said. "I think it's dangerous to speculate in the absence of good data."
Mifeprex is sold through physicians, who dispense the drug directly to patients. Physicians are required to give their patients a medication guide that lists the drug's risks.
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By GARDINER HARRIS
WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 - Federal drug regulators have discovered that all four women in this country who died after taking an abortion pill suffered from a rare and highly lethal bacterial infection, a finding that is leading to new scrutiny of the drug's safety.
Since all four deaths occurred in California, an unusual clustering, the Food and Drug Administration quietly tested to see if abortion pills distributed in California were somehow contaminated. They were not.
Stumped, officials from the F.D.A. and the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have decided to convene a scientific meeting early next year to discuss this medical mystery, according to two drug agency officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the topic.
Among other issues, the experts hope to explore whether the abortion pill, called Mifeprex or RU-486, somehow makes patients vulnerable to an infection with Clostridium sordellii, the lethal bacteria. If so, they will explore how such an infection "could be more easily diagnosed and even prevented," one official said.
Monty Patterson, whose daughter Holly died on Sept. 17, 2003, less than a month after her 18th birthday, said he believed that Mifeprex inhibits the immune system, making women more vulnerable to bacteria.
Mr. Patterson's campaign against Mifeprex helped persuade the family of at least one other woman who died to have tissue samples tested for the presence of the rare bacteria, he said.
"I believe this drug should be taken off the market," Mr. Patterson said.
For now, there is no indication that the F.D.A. is considering restricting access to the drug. Indeed, it has advised doctors against giving antibiotics as a precaution to prevent the rare infections since antibiotic therapy carries its own risks.
Mifeprex has been used in more than 500,000 medical abortions in the United States since its approval in September 2000. The risks of death from infection after using the pill are similar to the risks after surgical abortion or childbirth, said Dr. Steven Galson, director of the F.D.A.'s center for drugs.
Warnings about the drug's possible link with Clostridium sordellii were placed on Mifeprex's label in July, and the drug agency without announcement updated this information on its Web site on Nov. 4 after it discovered that all of the deaths involved the lethal bacteria.
"I think everyone would like to know what exactly is going on regarding these rare and really serious Clostridium sordellii infections that we have seen happen in California," said Dr. Cynthia Summers, a spokeswoman for Danco Laboratories, maker of Mifeprex. "I don't have an answer for you, and because of that I don't have any running theories."
Information about the Clostridium sordellii infections has emerged slowly because the drug agency largely relies on voluntary reports by doctors, patients and others to identify drug problems and side effects.
Ms. Patterson died seven days after taking Mifeprex. She lived in Livermore, Calif.
On Dec. 29, 2003, Vivian Tran, 22, of Costa Mesa, Calif., died six days after taking Mifeprex.
On Jan. 14, 2004, Chanelle Bryant, 22, of Pasadena, Calif., died six days after taking Mifeprex. And on May 24, 2005, Oriane Shevin, 34, of Los Angeles died five days after taking Mifeprex.
In each case, Clostridium sordellii infected the women's uteruses, flourished and then entered their bloodstreams. The bacterium can cause nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and weakness but may not induce fever, so victims often fail to realize how sick they are until it is too late and succumb to toxic shock. Antibiotics are often ineffective once an infection has flourished because even in death, the bacteria release toxins.
The families of Ms. Patterson, Ms. Tran and Ms. Bryant have all filed suit against Danco, claiming the company failed to warn patients of the drug's dangers.
A woman who died in Canada after taking Mifeprex during clinical testing in 2001 also suffered from a Clostridium sordellii infection. No similar deaths have been reported in Europe, where Mifeprex is widely used. But in the United States, most physicians give Mifeprex and an accompanying drug, misoprostol, in a regimen that involves inserting misoprostol vaginally.
Federal drug regulators have not approved this regimen, but it is not unusual for doctors to use drugs differently from how they are officially approved. Studies indicate that this regimen is effective, requires a lower dose of misoprostol, and allows women to undergo the most emotional and painful part of the procedure at home. What is unknown is whether it may somehow contribute to bacterial infections.
Any hint that Mifeprex may cause problems usually leads to a firestorm of criticism directed at the F.D.A., and the meeting scheduled for next year is bound to incite controversy. A 1996 federal advisory committee that recommended the drug's approval met under intense security in a windowless building surrounded by federal marshals.
Wendy Wright, executive vice president of Concerned Women for America, a conservative group, said that the latest news about deaths involving Mifeprex proved that the drug was unsafe. Ms. Wright also speculated that more women were dying after using the drug but that their deaths were going unreported.
"I'm pleased that the F.D.A. is taking a serious look at this," she said, "and hope that they will no longer allow this drug to be available to cause the deaths of more women."
Dr. Scott J. Spear, chairman of the national medical committee of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the nation's largest provider of abortions, said there was no evidence that the vaginal administration of misoprostol increased the risks of bacterial infections.
"They're all in California, so is this a local issue?" Dr. Spear said. "I think it's dangerous to speculate in the absence of good data."
Mifeprex is sold through physicians, who dispense the drug directly to patients. Physicians are required to give their patients a medication guide that lists the drug's risks.
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Monday, November 21, 2005
DICK LAMM WEIGHS IN ON ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION!
Former Colorado Governor Richard Lamm will carry an
initiative to restrict benefits to Colorado citizens. He might
ponder his involvement in creating the problem he now
seeks to fix.
"Sir, do you think it possible that your 1967 legislation legalizing
abortion for the first time in America has led to the
situation we now face - a shortage of nearly 50 million Americans,
many of whom would be workers.
Illegal aliens are naturally filling that void are they not?"
Former Colorado Governor Richard Lamm will carry an
initiative to restrict benefits to Colorado citizens. He might
ponder his involvement in creating the problem he now
seeks to fix.
"Sir, do you think it possible that your 1967 legislation legalizing
abortion for the first time in America has led to the
situation we now face - a shortage of nearly 50 million Americans,
many of whom would be workers.
Illegal aliens are naturally filling that void are they not?"
Friday, November 18, 2005
PLANNED PARENTHOOD'S WICKEDNESS NEVER ENDS!

Some parents upset over sex booklet in schools
Thursday, November 10, 2005
By R. DAVID HEILEMAN
The Sun Star
STRONGSVILLE _ An informational booklet that describes the symptoms of sexually transmitted diseases and contains phone numbers for Planned Parenthood and confidential reproductive health services has raised protests after it was placed in students' lockers throughout the district.
City resident Theresa Fleming said her 11-year-old son, a sixth-grader at Kinsner Elementary School, was among those who received a copy of the booklet, Youth Pages, A Guide for Cuyahoga County Teens published by United Way's 211 First Call For Help.
She said the booklet, which also provides information on the need for parental consent for abortion and a Web address for the Lesbian/Gay Community Service Center of Greater Cleveland, is inappropriate for 11-year-olds.
I believe some sex education needs to be given, but when subjects are discussed or material is given to kids of this nature, a notice should be sent home to the parent and they should be allowed to opt out of the program if they wish, Fleming said.
School Superintendent James Gray said he gave an OK for the pocket-sized directories, which were provided to the district by United Way Services in conjunction with the county health department and county commissioners, to be given to students at the high school, middle schools and to sixth graders.
Gray said he received two calls from parents who took exception to the booklet's content.
I understand that and probably, in retrospect, I should have considered sending a letter along with it as far as an explanation, he said, adding, this is a developing situation. I don't know what we are going to do at this point.
Colleen Grady, a city resident and a member of the state school board, said she got calls from four parents concerned about their children getting the directory.
Grady, who is also a former city school board member, said she has not personally seen the publication, but they (parents) read me sections over the telephone.
She said the state board of education may wish to make a legislative recommendation to the Ohio general assembly, and the board could also consider discussion about adoption of a model policy for the distribution of such materials.
Gray said there will be continued discussion, in the district's curriculum and pupil services departments on whether to curtail distribution of materials which are considered to be sensitive, particularly for the younger kids.
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Some parents upset over sex booklet in schools
Thursday, November 10, 2005
By R. DAVID HEILEMAN
The Sun Star
STRONGSVILLE _ An informational booklet that describes the symptoms of sexually transmitted diseases and contains phone numbers for Planned Parenthood and confidential reproductive health services has raised protests after it was placed in students' lockers throughout the district.
City resident Theresa Fleming said her 11-year-old son, a sixth-grader at Kinsner Elementary School, was among those who received a copy of the booklet, Youth Pages, A Guide for Cuyahoga County Teens published by United Way's 211 First Call For Help.
She said the booklet, which also provides information on the need for parental consent for abortion and a Web address for the Lesbian/Gay Community Service Center of Greater Cleveland, is inappropriate for 11-year-olds.
I believe some sex education needs to be given, but when subjects are discussed or material is given to kids of this nature, a notice should be sent home to the parent and they should be allowed to opt out of the program if they wish, Fleming said.
School Superintendent James Gray said he gave an OK for the pocket-sized directories, which were provided to the district by United Way Services in conjunction with the county health department and county commissioners, to be given to students at the high school, middle schools and to sixth graders.
Gray said he received two calls from parents who took exception to the booklet's content.
I understand that and probably, in retrospect, I should have considered sending a letter along with it as far as an explanation, he said, adding, this is a developing situation. I don't know what we are going to do at this point.
Colleen Grady, a city resident and a member of the state school board, said she got calls from four parents concerned about their children getting the directory.
Grady, who is also a former city school board member, said she has not personally seen the publication, but they (parents) read me sections over the telephone.
She said the state board of education may wish to make a legislative recommendation to the Ohio general assembly, and the board could also consider discussion about adoption of a model policy for the distribution of such materials.
Gray said there will be continued discussion, in the district's curriculum and pupil services departments on whether to curtail distribution of materials which are considered to be sensitive, particularly for the younger kids.
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Sunday, November 13, 2005
Komen Ups Planned Parenthood Funding
By Eve Sánchez Silver
Executive Director
CLResearch
http://www.clrsearch.org
silver@clresearch.org
The Aspen [Susan G.] Komen [Breast Cancer] foundation (SGK) one of the largest grant-making organizations in its service area [has designated funds to the] Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, Glenwood Springs Health Center, for clinical breast exams, screening mammograms, diagnostic mammograms and ultrasounds to uninsured and underinsured women with a focus on Latina women: $12,887. (Aspen Times, 11/03/05)
In 2003 this writer resigned as a charter member of The National Hispanic Latina Advisory Council of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation upon receiving an article from a colleague which suggested that SGK was funding Planned Parenthood.
She thought it was a lie. It wasn't.
As a two-time breast cancer survivor and charter member of SGK she had quieted her personal convictions to work with a determined freedom, within The National Hispanic/Latina Advisory Council, towards the eradication of breast cancer as a life-threatening disease, and, with the other honorable multi-cultural councils of SGK. She was honored, purposeful and committed to The SGK Foundation.
Upon investigating the allegations that SGK was indeed funding Planned Parenthood through affiliate grants, she resigned from SGK, canceling several speaking engagements around the country and resigning as well from her own beloved council. The Foundation's decision to affirm life with one hand and support its destruction with the other was unacceptable.
The Komen Foundation has boosted its grants by 30% and is using Latina women to funnel funds to Planned Parenthood. Latinas are being sold-out by Planned Parenthood who claims to be using breast services to under-served populations to save lives. This is an egregious lie. Planned Parenthood’s own records show that when Planned Parenthood of North Texas received Komen funding in 2003, ostensibly for “breast services”, abortion services went UP and breast services went DOWN. Money is fungible. Komen naively states that they are providing funds that will have nothing to do with abortion. At Planned Parenthood ? Oh, give us a break! Here is what used to pop into people’s head when they thought of these organizations:
Komen: BREAST CANCER
Planned Parenthood: ABORTION
That’s no longer the case. The organizations have melded into one giant organization abortion-funding machine:
THE KOMEN-PLANNED PARENTHOOD ABORTION MACHINE
Based on their shared ideologies, Komen and Planned Parenthood have generated great synergy with Komen seducing people in, via fund raisers for breast cancer, and consistently raising their funding to Planned Parenthood, who waits in the shadows to hack them up in the background: They race through the country on other people’s sneakers, picking up dollars as they go. Together they have finally been able to put a pepto-pink-pastel-party race-face on Planned Parenthood’s murder machine. Pay no attention to the abortionist behind the screen, “breast cancer services” will draw people in via The Komen Race, and other fund raising events that add to Planned Parenthood coffers. Funds get to Planned Parenthood by using under-served groups as the funnel, breast services as the reason and Planned Parenthood gets a little more chump-change to use so that they are freer to murder people’s children with the now extra money they have in the other pocket of their surgical pants.
Abortion kills the child and later the mother, through breast cancer. Komen-Planned Parenthood denies the Abortion-Breast Cancer link. These are the undeniable physiological facts concerning the breast:
-The breast is the only organ not fully developed at birth
-The breast is NEVER mature until after 32 weeks of pregnancy
-Interruption of a pregnancy before 32 weeks leaves cancer prone lobules exposed to the DNA damaging affects of estrogen, a hormone that causes breast cell proliferation
-50 out of 50 studies show that even ONE abortion places women at high risk of having pre-mature births.
Peer reviewed and dependable studies show these factors to be true, however, those making dollars from abortion victims hide these facts. Smoking and lung cancer information was denied for 50 years so that the tobacco industry could grow rich. The current US trend is to rely on the discredited Melbye and Beral studies (Ethics & Medics, 2004 - abortionbreastcancer.com, 11/04, Angela Lanfranchi, MD; Dr. Joel Brind, Ph. D. http://www.bcpinstitute.org/)
Latinas and other women of color are outraged that The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation supports Planned Parenthood an organization with murder at its heart, and designed from its inception to eliminate people of color, as its founder Margaret Sanger intended.
All women must be alerted to the facts and informed of the increased risk factors in the link between abortion and breast cancer. The ever-escalating affiliate funding funnels from Komen to Planned Parenthood show their ideological solidarity and unity. They have melded into one dangerous unit, and lives are at stake.Let’s call it what it is: KOMEN-PLANNED PARENTHOOD, the murder machine.
By Eve Sánchez Silver
Executive Director
CLResearch
http://www.clrsearch.org
silver@clresearch.org
The Aspen [Susan G.] Komen [Breast Cancer] foundation (SGK) one of the largest grant-making organizations in its service area [has designated funds to the] Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, Glenwood Springs Health Center, for clinical breast exams, screening mammograms, diagnostic mammograms and ultrasounds to uninsured and underinsured women with a focus on Latina women: $12,887. (Aspen Times, 11/03/05)
In 2003 this writer resigned as a charter member of The National Hispanic Latina Advisory Council of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation upon receiving an article from a colleague which suggested that SGK was funding Planned Parenthood.
She thought it was a lie. It wasn't.
As a two-time breast cancer survivor and charter member of SGK she had quieted her personal convictions to work with a determined freedom, within The National Hispanic/Latina Advisory Council, towards the eradication of breast cancer as a life-threatening disease, and, with the other honorable multi-cultural councils of SGK. She was honored, purposeful and committed to The SGK Foundation.
Upon investigating the allegations that SGK was indeed funding Planned Parenthood through affiliate grants, she resigned from SGK, canceling several speaking engagements around the country and resigning as well from her own beloved council. The Foundation's decision to affirm life with one hand and support its destruction with the other was unacceptable.
The Komen Foundation has boosted its grants by 30% and is using Latina women to funnel funds to Planned Parenthood. Latinas are being sold-out by Planned Parenthood who claims to be using breast services to under-served populations to save lives. This is an egregious lie. Planned Parenthood’s own records show that when Planned Parenthood of North Texas received Komen funding in 2003, ostensibly for “breast services”, abortion services went UP and breast services went DOWN. Money is fungible. Komen naively states that they are providing funds that will have nothing to do with abortion. At Planned Parenthood ? Oh, give us a break! Here is what used to pop into people’s head when they thought of these organizations:
Komen: BREAST CANCER
Planned Parenthood: ABORTION
That’s no longer the case. The organizations have melded into one giant organization abortion-funding machine:
THE KOMEN-PLANNED PARENTHOOD ABORTION MACHINE
Based on their shared ideologies, Komen and Planned Parenthood have generated great synergy with Komen seducing people in, via fund raisers for breast cancer, and consistently raising their funding to Planned Parenthood, who waits in the shadows to hack them up in the background: They race through the country on other people’s sneakers, picking up dollars as they go. Together they have finally been able to put a pepto-pink-pastel-party race-face on Planned Parenthood’s murder machine. Pay no attention to the abortionist behind the screen, “breast cancer services” will draw people in via The Komen Race, and other fund raising events that add to Planned Parenthood coffers. Funds get to Planned Parenthood by using under-served groups as the funnel, breast services as the reason and Planned Parenthood gets a little more chump-change to use so that they are freer to murder people’s children with the now extra money they have in the other pocket of their surgical pants.
Abortion kills the child and later the mother, through breast cancer. Komen-Planned Parenthood denies the Abortion-Breast Cancer link. These are the undeniable physiological facts concerning the breast:
-The breast is the only organ not fully developed at birth
-The breast is NEVER mature until after 32 weeks of pregnancy
-Interruption of a pregnancy before 32 weeks leaves cancer prone lobules exposed to the DNA damaging affects of estrogen, a hormone that causes breast cell proliferation
-50 out of 50 studies show that even ONE abortion places women at high risk of having pre-mature births.
Peer reviewed and dependable studies show these factors to be true, however, those making dollars from abortion victims hide these facts. Smoking and lung cancer information was denied for 50 years so that the tobacco industry could grow rich. The current US trend is to rely on the discredited Melbye and Beral studies (Ethics & Medics, 2004 - abortionbreastcancer.com, 11/04, Angela Lanfranchi, MD; Dr. Joel Brind, Ph. D. http://www.bcpinstitute.org/)
Latinas and other women of color are outraged that The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation supports Planned Parenthood an organization with murder at its heart, and designed from its inception to eliminate people of color, as its founder Margaret Sanger intended.
All women must be alerted to the facts and informed of the increased risk factors in the link between abortion and breast cancer. The ever-escalating affiliate funding funnels from Komen to Planned Parenthood show their ideological solidarity and unity. They have melded into one dangerous unit, and lives are at stake.Let’s call it what it is: KOMEN-PLANNED PARENTHOOD, the murder machine.
Wednesday, November 02, 2005
SCHIAVO WANTS TO GET INVOLVED IN POLITICS - HE SHOULD BE GEOFFRY FEIGER'S CAMPAIGN MANAGER!
Michael Schiavo endorses Kaine
By BOB LEWIS
AP Political Writer
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- Michael Schiavo, who was at the center of a passionate national end-of-life debate when his brain-damaged wife, Terri, died in March, endorsed Democrat Tim Kaine for governor Wednesday.
"I have seen firsthand what can happen when a governor disagrees with a single citizen. In Florida, Gov. Jeb Bush abused the power of his office in an attempt to replace my personal family decisions with his own opinions and political grandstanding," Schiavo wrote a six-paragraph statement distributed by a Democratic political consulting firm in Miami.
Conservatives vilified Schiavo for ordering the removal of the feeding tube that had sustained his wife for 15 years. In the resulting legal and ideological conflict, Congress, Jeb Bush and his brother, President Bush, all sought to have the tube reinserted.
Schiavo based his endorsement on responses from Kaine and Republican Jerry Kilgore during their Oct. 9 televised debate when asked if governors should intervene in disputes within families over discontinuing life support for a loved one.
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Kilgore said he is "not going to agree to the forced starvation of any individual if that individual hasn't had a say." He said he would urge people who don't wish to be kept alive artificially to write their instructions in medical directives.
Kaine's response: "I don't think governors should use their PR grandstanding to intervene in these cases." He said such disputes should be settled within the privacy and dignity of juvenile and family courts.
Schiavo, who lives in Florida, wrote that Kilgore "is wrong to follow the example of a governor who did not respect me, my family or the rule of law, and I fear what may happen to unsuspecting Virginians when Mr. Kilgore disagrees with their deeply private family decisions."
Kaine campaign spokesman Mo Elleithee was unaware of Schiavo's letter. "Tim Kaine has never met or talked with Michael Schiavo, but Tim's position on this issue is very clear," he said.
Kilgore's campaign declined to comment.
Derek Newton, manager of the November Group consulting firm that released the statement, said Schiavo was not available for comment Wednesday.
"Michael issued the statement because he is interested in getting more involved in the political process," Newton said.
Michael Schiavo endorses Kaine
By BOB LEWIS
AP Political Writer
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- Michael Schiavo, who was at the center of a passionate national end-of-life debate when his brain-damaged wife, Terri, died in March, endorsed Democrat Tim Kaine for governor Wednesday.
"I have seen firsthand what can happen when a governor disagrees with a single citizen. In Florida, Gov. Jeb Bush abused the power of his office in an attempt to replace my personal family decisions with his own opinions and political grandstanding," Schiavo wrote a six-paragraph statement distributed by a Democratic political consulting firm in Miami.
Conservatives vilified Schiavo for ordering the removal of the feeding tube that had sustained his wife for 15 years. In the resulting legal and ideological conflict, Congress, Jeb Bush and his brother, President Bush, all sought to have the tube reinserted.
Schiavo based his endorsement on responses from Kaine and Republican Jerry Kilgore during their Oct. 9 televised debate when asked if governors should intervene in disputes within families over discontinuing life support for a loved one.
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Kilgore said he is "not going to agree to the forced starvation of any individual if that individual hasn't had a say." He said he would urge people who don't wish to be kept alive artificially to write their instructions in medical directives.
Kaine's response: "I don't think governors should use their PR grandstanding to intervene in these cases." He said such disputes should be settled within the privacy and dignity of juvenile and family courts.
Schiavo, who lives in Florida, wrote that Kilgore "is wrong to follow the example of a governor who did not respect me, my family or the rule of law, and I fear what may happen to unsuspecting Virginians when Mr. Kilgore disagrees with their deeply private family decisions."
Kaine campaign spokesman Mo Elleithee was unaware of Schiavo's letter. "Tim Kaine has never met or talked with Michael Schiavo, but Tim's position on this issue is very clear," he said.
Kilgore's campaign declined to comment.
Derek Newton, manager of the November Group consulting firm that released the statement, said Schiavo was not available for comment Wednesday.
"Michael issued the statement because he is interested in getting more involved in the political process," Newton said.
SENT TO WORLD MAGAZINE:
Editor,
I intend to read your article on Rosa Parks - Devout
Christian. Having read on Wikipedia that she served
on Planned Parenthood's board of directors, it makes
me sad that she was likely duped by their slick,
seductive lies. With 1,300 black babies dying
every day from abortion in America, her faith
should have led her to a better organization with
which to serve.
Leslie Hanks
V.P. Colorado Right to Life
Editor,
I intend to read your article on Rosa Parks - Devout
Christian. Having read on Wikipedia that she served
on Planned Parenthood's board of directors, it makes
me sad that she was likely duped by their slick,
seductive lies. With 1,300 black babies dying
every day from abortion in America, her faith
should have led her to a better organization with
which to serve.
Leslie Hanks
V.P. Colorado Right to Life
Tuesday, October 25, 2005
Sunday, October 23, 2005
Tuesday, October 18, 2005
OH WHAT A GLORIOUS DAY!!
Abortionist Warren Hern got Plastered Today.
That is, his picture was plastered all over Boulder Colorado. Two pro life grannies decided to go for a stroll through Boulder. And what a day it was, the trees displayed their glorious fall attire in 75 degree weather while the streets of Boulder were decorated with late term abortionist Warren Hern’s Picture along with his own quotes.
Warren Hern
indicts himself with
his own statements.
Abortionist Warren Hern
Are these the words of a
respectable caring doctor,
or a man driven by bloodlust?
“We have reached a point in this particular technology
(D&E abortion) where there is no possibility of denial of an
act of destruction by the operator. It is before one’s eyes.
The sensations of dismemberment flow through the
forceps like an electric current.”— Warren Hern’s statement at an
Assoc. of Planned Parenthood Physicians meeting in San Diego — Oct. 26, 1978
“Most physicians regard abortion as a stigmatized
operation done by people who are otherwise incompetent
and can’t do anything else ...If you’re going to do abortions
and make that your specialty the best you can hope for is to be
tolerated by your colleagues...”— American Medical News, Sept. 5, 1994
Abortionist Warren Hern
We pray that God would take the wicked heart of
Warren Hern and turn it towards Himself. We
pray that Jesus would apprehend his heart and
enable Mr. Hern to use the wonderful gifts and
abilities given to him to bring health, healing,
and life, rather than destruction and death.
In Jesus Name!
Reverend Flip Benham
Fliers were posted coming and going in his neighborhood. They were attached to the back of stop signs, taped to poles, added to campaign signs and displayed in store front windows. A short hop in the car and they found themselves at Hern’s own “Boulder abortion clinic." They posted their fliers up and down the entire street, on all the cars. Most fun of all was posting them right outside the abortion mill itself.
In true granny stereotype, they found themselves in need of a restroom, which was found across the street from the mill in the Boulder hospital. There they discovered that lavatory doors were a great place to display their information.
Believe it or not, the grannies weren’t quite finished! They headed to C U Boulder for the free speech area where in the middle of the courtyard stands a pillar, ten feet in diameter, used for posting student notices. Tonight that pillar stands ringed with the "late term abortionist Hern" flier.
Next, their stroll took them to the student union. It seems their imaginations ran wild! Works of art under glass strategically placed in waiting areas now have the Hern flier included under the glass strategically placed in waiting areas. The union was strewn with bulletin boards with plenty of room for their little flier. Free newspaper stands with glass fronts made a great display case for abortionist Hern’s photo. Oh, what fun two little grannies can have on a collage campus.
When they finished their assignment in the student union, finding "where on earth" they had left their car was the next order of the day. It took a while but they did find the car - not before leafleting several parking lots, stop signs, and even a bicycle rack packed with bikes chained to it. It was truly a glorious day in Boulder and Warren Hern was truly plastered.
Jo Scott
Abortionist Warren Hern got Plastered Today.
That is, his picture was plastered all over Boulder Colorado. Two pro life grannies decided to go for a stroll through Boulder. And what a day it was, the trees displayed their glorious fall attire in 75 degree weather while the streets of Boulder were decorated with late term abortionist Warren Hern’s Picture along with his own quotes.
Warren Hern
indicts himself with
his own statements.
Abortionist Warren Hern
Are these the words of a
respectable caring doctor,
or a man driven by bloodlust?
“We have reached a point in this particular technology
(D&E abortion) where there is no possibility of denial of an
act of destruction by the operator. It is before one’s eyes.
The sensations of dismemberment flow through the
forceps like an electric current.”— Warren Hern’s statement at an
Assoc. of Planned Parenthood Physicians meeting in San Diego — Oct. 26, 1978
“Most physicians regard abortion as a stigmatized
operation done by people who are otherwise incompetent
and can’t do anything else ...If you’re going to do abortions
and make that your specialty the best you can hope for is to be
tolerated by your colleagues...”— American Medical News, Sept. 5, 1994
Abortionist Warren Hern
We pray that God would take the wicked heart of
Warren Hern and turn it towards Himself. We
pray that Jesus would apprehend his heart and
enable Mr. Hern to use the wonderful gifts and
abilities given to him to bring health, healing,
and life, rather than destruction and death.
In Jesus Name!
Reverend Flip Benham
Fliers were posted coming and going in his neighborhood. They were attached to the back of stop signs, taped to poles, added to campaign signs and displayed in store front windows. A short hop in the car and they found themselves at Hern’s own “Boulder abortion clinic." They posted their fliers up and down the entire street, on all the cars. Most fun of all was posting them right outside the abortion mill itself.
In true granny stereotype, they found themselves in need of a restroom, which was found across the street from the mill in the Boulder hospital. There they discovered that lavatory doors were a great place to display their information.
Believe it or not, the grannies weren’t quite finished! They headed to C U Boulder for the free speech area where in the middle of the courtyard stands a pillar, ten feet in diameter, used for posting student notices. Tonight that pillar stands ringed with the "late term abortionist Hern" flier.
Next, their stroll took them to the student union. It seems their imaginations ran wild! Works of art under glass strategically placed in waiting areas now have the Hern flier included under the glass strategically placed in waiting areas. The union was strewn with bulletin boards with plenty of room for their little flier. Free newspaper stands with glass fronts made a great display case for abortionist Hern’s photo. Oh, what fun two little grannies can have on a collage campus.
When they finished their assignment in the student union, finding "where on earth" they had left their car was the next order of the day. It took a while but they did find the car - not before leafleting several parking lots, stop signs, and even a bicycle rack packed with bikes chained to it. It was truly a glorious day in Boulder and Warren Hern was truly plastered.
Jo Scott
Thursday, October 06, 2005
Monday, October 03, 2005
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact: Leslie Hanks
October 3, 2005
720-394-8946 C
COLORADO RIGHT TO LIFE CALLS FOR ETHICAL VACCINES
Attendees at the 2005 Colorado Right to Life, State Meeting September 24, 2005
voted unanimously to adopt a resolution opposing the use of fetal tissue in the
production of vaccines and proposing the development of ethical alternatives grown
on cell lines which are not tainted with fetal tissue from aborted babies.
Furthermore, the body calls upon the congress to pass the Fair Labeling and Informed
Consent Act, which was introduced earlier this year by Children of God for Life. (www.cogforlife.org)
Patti Johnson, former State School Board member, wrote and carried the
resolution to the organization’s annual State Meeting, at which new board members
were elected and the vision for 2006 was charted.
CRLC President, Diane Hochevar noted, “Our organization believes that all human
life is precious and should be equally protected under the law from fertilization to natural
death. “We commend Patti Johnson for raising this important topic, about which many
citizens are unaware.”
Most parents have no idea that their children’s vaccines contain DNA from
an aborted human baby. “We intend to embark upon an education campaign to help
families understand the ethical and medical implications of this hidden issue,”
states CRLC Vice President, Leslie Hanks.
Unlike Merck, who obtained their rubella virus from an aborted baby, Japanese scientists simply swabbed the throat of an infected child. “Why American pharmaceutical companies have not pursued a similar ethical avenue, remains a mystery,” said the resolution’s sponsor, Patti Johnson.
October 3, 2005
720-394-8946 C
COLORADO RIGHT TO LIFE CALLS FOR ETHICAL VACCINES
Attendees at the 2005 Colorado Right to Life, State Meeting September 24, 2005
voted unanimously to adopt a resolution opposing the use of fetal tissue in the
production of vaccines and proposing the development of ethical alternatives grown
on cell lines which are not tainted with fetal tissue from aborted babies.
Furthermore, the body calls upon the congress to pass the Fair Labeling and Informed
Consent Act, which was introduced earlier this year by Children of God for Life. (www.cogforlife.org)
Patti Johnson, former State School Board member, wrote and carried the
resolution to the organization’s annual State Meeting, at which new board members
were elected and the vision for 2006 was charted.
CRLC President, Diane Hochevar noted, “Our organization believes that all human
life is precious and should be equally protected under the law from fertilization to natural
death. “We commend Patti Johnson for raising this important topic, about which many
citizens are unaware.”
Most parents have no idea that their children’s vaccines contain DNA from
an aborted human baby. “We intend to embark upon an education campaign to help
families understand the ethical and medical implications of this hidden issue,”
states CRLC Vice President, Leslie Hanks.
Unlike Merck, who obtained their rubella virus from an aborted baby, Japanese scientists simply swabbed the throat of an infected child. “Why American pharmaceutical companies have not pursued a similar ethical avenue, remains a mystery,” said the resolution’s sponsor, Patti Johnson.
Tuesday, September 27, 2005
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Speakout: Breast cancer-abortion link slighted
By Leslie Hanks, Special to the News
September 23, 2005
As the leaves begin to turn gold each fall, cities begin to turn pink.
Everywhere one looks one finds pink ads, pink attire, pink hats, pink tennis shoes, pink teas - yes The Republic of Tea makes a Sip for the Cure. The Race for the Cure (for breast cancer) has become the cause celebre for the nation.
A perusal of a recent O, The Oprah Magazine found 14 pages of ads for the politically correct event. The Susan G. Komen Foundation is proclaimed on radio commercials, seen in huge displays in shopping malls and their pink ribbons decorate buildings all over town. Has there ever before been a more comprehensive marketing campaign? On Oct. 2, Denver's Clear Channel radio stations, 9News and Safeway will sponsor this year's Race for the Cure to raise funds for a cure for breast cancer.
The participating women are highly motivated to find a cure for the dread disease, and who can blame them? In the recent past, however, a growing body of evidence has been amassed linking breast cancer and the most avoidable risk factor for it: abortion. One can study the statistics and come to one's own conclusions, but the data found on www.abortionbreastcancer.com is pretty persuasive.
The Susan G. Komen Foundation lost a founding member of its National Hispanic Latina Advisory Council, Eve Sanchez Silver, because of her concern about the foundation giving funds to Planned Parenthood, the largest provider of abortions in the nation. Sanchez Silver asking, "Why aren't women being told?" Her concerns can be found at www.pinkmoney.org.
As early as 1986, government scientists wrote a letter to the British medical journal The Lancet acknowledging that abortion is a cause of breast cancer. They wrote, "Induced abortion before first term pregnancy increases the risk of breast cancer" (The Lancet, Feb. 22, 1986).
Aborting one's first pregnancy - when the breast's cells are changing from nonmilk-producing to those able to sustain life - apparently leaves the cells in a vulnerable state to toxins, leading to a serious increase in one's risk for developing breast cancer later in life.
As the abortion-breast cancer link's strongest proponent, Joel Brind, Ph.D., explains, "So full-term pregnancy is protective; it lowers breast cancer risk. But if that pregnancy is cut off artificially somewhere in the middle after some weeks or months, [a woman] has far more cells in her breasts that are capable of proliferation, and that have proliferated, than she did at the beginning of the pregnancy, which translates statistically into a higher chance of getting breast cancer later in life."
Why does giving grants to Planned Parenthood, the organization that may be most responsible for the dire increase in breast cancer rates since Roe v. Wade, make any sense? Why do the mainstream media insist on a media blackout about the most relevant topic to women's health today? Why do editors routinely ignore the queries begging them to reveal the truth? Do they believe women can't handle the truth?
Leslie Hanks is the vice president of Colorado Right to Life. She is a resident of Watkins.
Copyright 2005, Rocky Mountain News. All Rights Reserved.
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Speakout: Breast cancer-abortion link slighted
By Leslie Hanks, Special to the News
September 23, 2005
As the leaves begin to turn gold each fall, cities begin to turn pink.
Everywhere one looks one finds pink ads, pink attire, pink hats, pink tennis shoes, pink teas - yes The Republic of Tea makes a Sip for the Cure. The Race for the Cure (for breast cancer) has become the cause celebre for the nation.
A perusal of a recent O, The Oprah Magazine found 14 pages of ads for the politically correct event. The Susan G. Komen Foundation is proclaimed on radio commercials, seen in huge displays in shopping malls and their pink ribbons decorate buildings all over town. Has there ever before been a more comprehensive marketing campaign? On Oct. 2, Denver's Clear Channel radio stations, 9News and Safeway will sponsor this year's Race for the Cure to raise funds for a cure for breast cancer.
The participating women are highly motivated to find a cure for the dread disease, and who can blame them? In the recent past, however, a growing body of evidence has been amassed linking breast cancer and the most avoidable risk factor for it: abortion. One can study the statistics and come to one's own conclusions, but the data found on www.abortionbreastcancer.com is pretty persuasive.
The Susan G. Komen Foundation lost a founding member of its National Hispanic Latina Advisory Council, Eve Sanchez Silver, because of her concern about the foundation giving funds to Planned Parenthood, the largest provider of abortions in the nation. Sanchez Silver asking, "Why aren't women being told?" Her concerns can be found at www.pinkmoney.org.
As early as 1986, government scientists wrote a letter to the British medical journal The Lancet acknowledging that abortion is a cause of breast cancer. They wrote, "Induced abortion before first term pregnancy increases the risk of breast cancer" (The Lancet, Feb. 22, 1986).
Aborting one's first pregnancy - when the breast's cells are changing from nonmilk-producing to those able to sustain life - apparently leaves the cells in a vulnerable state to toxins, leading to a serious increase in one's risk for developing breast cancer later in life.
As the abortion-breast cancer link's strongest proponent, Joel Brind, Ph.D., explains, "So full-term pregnancy is protective; it lowers breast cancer risk. But if that pregnancy is cut off artificially somewhere in the middle after some weeks or months, [a woman] has far more cells in her breasts that are capable of proliferation, and that have proliferated, than she did at the beginning of the pregnancy, which translates statistically into a higher chance of getting breast cancer later in life."
Why does giving grants to Planned Parenthood, the organization that may be most responsible for the dire increase in breast cancer rates since Roe v. Wade, make any sense? Why do the mainstream media insist on a media blackout about the most relevant topic to women's health today? Why do editors routinely ignore the queries begging them to reveal the truth? Do they believe women can't handle the truth?
Leslie Hanks is the vice president of Colorado Right to Life. She is a resident of Watkins.
Copyright 2005, Rocky Mountain News. All Rights Reserved.
Sunday, September 18, 2005
PASTOR ENYART REPORTS:
Pro-life activists met with one of Colorado’s Deputy Attorney Generals, Jason Dunn, and prosecutor Jeanne Smith to inform them of abortion industry violations state-wide of the mandatory reporting law for suspicion of sexual activity with underage children. Colorado’s law does not empower the Attorney General’s office to investigate or prosecute local crimes. However, Colorado Right to Life vice president Leslie Hanks, sidewalk counselor Jo Scott, and Denver Bible Church pastor Bob Enyart argued that this matter rose to the level of the Attorney General’s office because of its multi-jurisdictional nature. Also, the pro-lifers asked Dunn to recommend that Attorney General John Suthers use the lawful authority he does possess to issue a statement to make statewide local law enforcement aware that, because of apparent violations of mandatory reporting, abortion clinics are systematically aiding those who commit incest and rape against children in the cover-up of these crimes.
Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, and the National Abortion Federation, operate facilities across the state, from Ft. Collins, through Denver and Colorado Springs, to Durango. Longtime prosecutor Smith was familiar with the frequent prosecutions throughout Colorado of sexual predators for crimes against minors, but could not recall any examples of cases arising from abortion clinics complying with Colorado’s mandatory reporting law. Smith, and Deputy Attorney General Dunn, stated that in preparation for this meeting they had discussed the possibility of multi-jurisdictional issues. The pro-lifers played recorded phone-call evidence, obtained by Life Dynamics of Denton Texas, of Colorado abortion clinics telling a woman posing as a 13-year-old to forget that you told us the 22-year-old age of the man who had impregnated her. Both lawyers indicated that such information seemed insufficient to prompt the AG to investigate. Enyart indicated the statistical evidence, since studies show that 60% to 80% of young teens impregnated have been violated by adults, and many of those children are brought to abortion clinics, and yet Colorado’s law requiring reporting from such workers who “suspect” is utterly ignored. The officials asked if the pro-lifers had direct evidence that any abortion organization had centralized training procedures or policies specifically designed to evade the mandatory reporting law, which the pro-lifers did not. Leslie Hanks then said, “These are children’s lives that are being ruined. This seems so wrong, that you are telling us that, as citizens, Colorado’s Attorney General’s office cannot look into the evidence, and that we, as citizens, are the ones who would have to investigate.”
Aside from informing these officials of this concern, the September 16, 2005 meeting yielded three action items. The Deputy AG agreed to raise the matter with Suthers of the AG issuing a statement to law enforcement; the Deputy agreed to inform the pro-lifers of the outcome of that request; and it was agreed that both parties would gather further information and meet again, possibly next month.
This report should not be understood to imply that abortion clinics would be less condemnable if they reported rather than systematically ignored their suspicion of child rape. Abortion clinics murder unborn children. And abortion is always wrong. In this instance, our love and concern for violated young teenagers who get brought to an abortion clinic, often by the very adult who raped them, parallels our effort to save the life of each and every unborn child, and to expose the wickedness of the abortion industry.
Pro-life activists met with one of Colorado’s Deputy Attorney Generals, Jason Dunn, and prosecutor Jeanne Smith to inform them of abortion industry violations state-wide of the mandatory reporting law for suspicion of sexual activity with underage children. Colorado’s law does not empower the Attorney General’s office to investigate or prosecute local crimes. However, Colorado Right to Life vice president Leslie Hanks, sidewalk counselor Jo Scott, and Denver Bible Church pastor Bob Enyart argued that this matter rose to the level of the Attorney General’s office because of its multi-jurisdictional nature. Also, the pro-lifers asked Dunn to recommend that Attorney General John Suthers use the lawful authority he does possess to issue a statement to make statewide local law enforcement aware that, because of apparent violations of mandatory reporting, abortion clinics are systematically aiding those who commit incest and rape against children in the cover-up of these crimes.
Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, and the National Abortion Federation, operate facilities across the state, from Ft. Collins, through Denver and Colorado Springs, to Durango. Longtime prosecutor Smith was familiar with the frequent prosecutions throughout Colorado of sexual predators for crimes against minors, but could not recall any examples of cases arising from abortion clinics complying with Colorado’s mandatory reporting law. Smith, and Deputy Attorney General Dunn, stated that in preparation for this meeting they had discussed the possibility of multi-jurisdictional issues. The pro-lifers played recorded phone-call evidence, obtained by Life Dynamics of Denton Texas, of Colorado abortion clinics telling a woman posing as a 13-year-old to forget that you told us the 22-year-old age of the man who had impregnated her. Both lawyers indicated that such information seemed insufficient to prompt the AG to investigate. Enyart indicated the statistical evidence, since studies show that 60% to 80% of young teens impregnated have been violated by adults, and many of those children are brought to abortion clinics, and yet Colorado’s law requiring reporting from such workers who “suspect” is utterly ignored. The officials asked if the pro-lifers had direct evidence that any abortion organization had centralized training procedures or policies specifically designed to evade the mandatory reporting law, which the pro-lifers did not. Leslie Hanks then said, “These are children’s lives that are being ruined. This seems so wrong, that you are telling us that, as citizens, Colorado’s Attorney General’s office cannot look into the evidence, and that we, as citizens, are the ones who would have to investigate.”
Aside from informing these officials of this concern, the September 16, 2005 meeting yielded three action items. The Deputy AG agreed to raise the matter with Suthers of the AG issuing a statement to law enforcement; the Deputy agreed to inform the pro-lifers of the outcome of that request; and it was agreed that both parties would gather further information and meet again, possibly next month.
This report should not be understood to imply that abortion clinics would be less condemnable if they reported rather than systematically ignored their suspicion of child rape. Abortion clinics murder unborn children. And abortion is always wrong. In this instance, our love and concern for violated young teenagers who get brought to an abortion clinic, often by the very adult who raped them, parallels our effort to save the life of each and every unborn child, and to expose the wickedness of the abortion industry.
Friday, September 16, 2005
Fwd: 100_9722.JPG - Jo Scott, Bob Enyart and Leslie Hanks after meeting with Colorado deputy AG, Jason Dunn
Fwd: 100_9722.JPG - Jo Scott, Bob Enyart and Leslie Hanks after meeting with Colorado deputy AG, Jason Dunn
Posted by: lesforlife54.
Begin forwarded message:Posted by: lesforlife54.
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> Subject: 100_9722.JPG - Jo Scott, Bob Enyart and Leslie Hanks after
> meeting with Colorado deputy AG, Jason Dunn regarding Planned
Parenthood's coverup of adult men sexually exploiting very young
teen girls.
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Wednesday, September 14, 2005
Racing Against Hope – Why aren’t Women being told the truth?
As the leaves begin to turn gold, each fall cities begin to turn pink. Not exactly complimentary colors. Pink suggests spring, renewal and growth.
Everywhere one looks one finds pink ads, pink attire, pink hats, pink tennis shoes, pink teas – yes The Republic of Tea makes a Sip for the Cure. The Race for the Cure has become the cause celebre for the nation. A recent perusal through an Oprah Magazine found fourteen pages of ads for the politically correct event. The Susan G. Komen Foundation is proclaimed on radio commercials, seen in huge displays in shopping malls and their pink ribbons decorate buildings all over town. Has there ever before been a more comprehensive marketing campaign?
On October 2, 2005, Denver, Colorado’s Clear Channel radio, 9 News and Safeway will sponsor this year’s Race for the Cure to raise funds for a cure for breast cancer.
The participating women are highly motivated to find a cure for the dread disease, who can blame them?
In the recent past, however, a growing body of evidence has been amassed, linking breast cancer and the most avoidable risk factor for it: abortion. One
can study the statistics and come to one’s own conclusions, but the data found on www.abortionbreastcancer.com is pretty convincing.
The Susan G. Komen Foundation lost a board member, Eve Sanchez Silver, because of her concern over the foundation giving funds to Planned Parenthood, the largest
provider of abortion in the nation. Not only is Eve asking, “Why aren’t women being told?” she also wants to know why Planned Parenthood targets people of color with its
policies. Her concerns can be found at www.pinkmoney.org.
Asking tough questions doesn’t bother Eve. What bothers her is the silence in the U.S. media. Taking her cause to Australia has revived fresh interest for her message, where it
hit a brick wall in her own nation.
When the truth begins to seep out of the bulwark standing against it, the racer’s anger will begin to simmer. They will demand to know why some pretty important information
was withheld from them.
As early as 1986, government scientists wrote a letter to the British Journal Lancet acknowledging that abortion is a cause of breast cancer. They wrote, “Induced abortion
before first term pregnancy increases the risk of breast cancer,” Lancet 2/22/86 p.436.
Aborting one’s first pregnancy - when the breast’s cells are changing from non-milk producing to those able to sustain life – apparently leaves the cells in a vulnerable state to
toxins, leading to a serious increase of one’s risk for developing breast cancer later in life.
As the ABC link’s strongest proponent, Joel Brind PhD explains, “So full term pregnancy is protective; it lowers breast cancer risk. But if that pregnancy is cut off artificially somewhere in the middle after some weeks or months, she has far more cells in her breasts that are capable of proliferation, and that have proliferated, than she did at the beginning of the pregnancy, which translates statistically into a higher chance of getting breast cancer later in life.”
Why does giving grants to the organization which may be most responsible for the dire increase in breast cancer rates since Roe v Wade make any sense? Why does
mainstream media insist on a media blackout about the most relevant topic to women’s health today? Why do editors routinely ignore the queries begging them to reveal the truth?
Do they believe women can’t handle the truth?
Absent that, all the pink attire, buttons, and tennis shoes in the country won’t restore health while one of the main causes of disease is denied.
All the running and racing for a cure will never happen as long as women go against nature, destroy their progeny and the beautiful functions for which their bodies were incredibly designed.
Keep the color pink for the time when women rediscover, with perfect joy, their majestic endowment as life givers.
Until that day is embraced and renewed, the colors of October shall remain naturally those of falling leaves.
Leslie Hanks
As the leaves begin to turn gold, each fall cities begin to turn pink. Not exactly complimentary colors. Pink suggests spring, renewal and growth.
Everywhere one looks one finds pink ads, pink attire, pink hats, pink tennis shoes, pink teas – yes The Republic of Tea makes a Sip for the Cure. The Race for the Cure has become the cause celebre for the nation. A recent perusal through an Oprah Magazine found fourteen pages of ads for the politically correct event. The Susan G. Komen Foundation is proclaimed on radio commercials, seen in huge displays in shopping malls and their pink ribbons decorate buildings all over town. Has there ever before been a more comprehensive marketing campaign?
On October 2, 2005, Denver, Colorado’s Clear Channel radio, 9 News and Safeway will sponsor this year’s Race for the Cure to raise funds for a cure for breast cancer.
The participating women are highly motivated to find a cure for the dread disease, who can blame them?
In the recent past, however, a growing body of evidence has been amassed, linking breast cancer and the most avoidable risk factor for it: abortion. One
can study the statistics and come to one’s own conclusions, but the data found on www.abortionbreastcancer.com is pretty convincing.
The Susan G. Komen Foundation lost a board member, Eve Sanchez Silver, because of her concern over the foundation giving funds to Planned Parenthood, the largest
provider of abortion in the nation. Not only is Eve asking, “Why aren’t women being told?” she also wants to know why Planned Parenthood targets people of color with its
policies. Her concerns can be found at www.pinkmoney.org.
Asking tough questions doesn’t bother Eve. What bothers her is the silence in the U.S. media. Taking her cause to Australia has revived fresh interest for her message, where it
hit a brick wall in her own nation.
When the truth begins to seep out of the bulwark standing against it, the racer’s anger will begin to simmer. They will demand to know why some pretty important information
was withheld from them.
As early as 1986, government scientists wrote a letter to the British Journal Lancet acknowledging that abortion is a cause of breast cancer. They wrote, “Induced abortion
before first term pregnancy increases the risk of breast cancer,” Lancet 2/22/86 p.436.
Aborting one’s first pregnancy - when the breast’s cells are changing from non-milk producing to those able to sustain life – apparently leaves the cells in a vulnerable state to
toxins, leading to a serious increase of one’s risk for developing breast cancer later in life.
As the ABC link’s strongest proponent, Joel Brind PhD explains, “So full term pregnancy is protective; it lowers breast cancer risk. But if that pregnancy is cut off artificially somewhere in the middle after some weeks or months, she has far more cells in her breasts that are capable of proliferation, and that have proliferated, than she did at the beginning of the pregnancy, which translates statistically into a higher chance of getting breast cancer later in life.”
Why does giving grants to the organization which may be most responsible for the dire increase in breast cancer rates since Roe v Wade make any sense? Why does
mainstream media insist on a media blackout about the most relevant topic to women’s health today? Why do editors routinely ignore the queries begging them to reveal the truth?
Do they believe women can’t handle the truth?
Absent that, all the pink attire, buttons, and tennis shoes in the country won’t restore health while one of the main causes of disease is denied.
All the running and racing for a cure will never happen as long as women go against nature, destroy their progeny and the beautiful functions for which their bodies were incredibly designed.
Keep the color pink for the time when women rediscover, with perfect joy, their majestic endowment as life givers.
Until that day is embraced and renewed, the colors of October shall remain naturally those of falling leaves.
Leslie Hanks
Sunday, September 11, 2005
Fwd: 100_9715.JPG - Seen at 11th and Speer and northbound Santa Fe south of Oxford west side of street
Fwd: 100_9715.JPG - Seen at 11th and Speer and northbound Santa Fe south of Oxford west side of street
Posted by: lesforlife54.
Begin forwarded message:Posted by: lesforlife54.
> From: Leslie Hanks
> Date: September 11, 2005 6:40:23 PM MDT
> To: steve curtis
> Cc: enyartbob@aol.com, Ken and Jo Scott , Diane
> Hochevar
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Wednesday, September 07, 2005
'March of the Penguins' vs. March for Women's Lives
By Jill Stanek
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com
Last week, my 5-year-old grandson and I went to see the movie, "March of the Penguins."
MOTP is a documentary that tells of the incredible sacrifices emperor penguins make to reproduce, protect their eggs, and safeguard their babies' lives in the harshest conditions on earth.
In light of the pro-life issue, I watch animal documentaries and dramas with mixed emotions. On one hand, there are usually a couple of scenes about pregnancy or giving birth corroborating that, yes, on a gut level, people do recognize the sanctity of life.
For instance, an early scene of "Finding Nemo" shows Nemo's desperate father, whose wife and incubating eggs have just been devoured by a predator, spotting Nemo, his lone surviving embryonic progeny, in a see-through egg. Instantly his despair turns to joy. He certainly does not consider his preborn son a blob of tissue.
On the other hand, scenes like this magnify the depravity of people who condone abortion, and I am refilled with angst.
MOTP hit me harder than most. Almost every scene and narrative verified the beauty of life and the rightness of protecting it.
Every March, as the Antarctic summer ends, scattered tribes of emperor penguins travel up to 70 miles to an ancient inland breeding ground, chosen instinctively because this is where ice is the thickest and will remain solid until the following summer, so the young won't fall through it. Upon arrival, penguins find mates with whom they are monogamous for a yearlong breeding cycle.
In early June, females lay one egg, and, as pro-abort actor Morgan Freeman narrated, "From now on the couple has but a single goal – keeping the egg alive ... The tiny beating heart within the shell cannot survive more than a moment in the freezing air."
(Mr. Freeman, do you ever contemplate what you read?)
By now, parents have gone without food for two months, and mom has lost 1/3 of her body weight. In a chivalrous role reversal, dads assume responsibility for their eggs for an incredible two additional months, so moms can trek 70 miles back to the sea for food and to regain strength to care for their hatchlings.
Sometimes when mom transfers the egg to dad, it cracks. In that case, narrated Freeman, "The couple can only watch as the ice claims their egg and the life within it."
Throughout the harshest winter in the world, when there is no sunlight, temperatures drop to -80 degrees, and winds blow 100 miles per hour, fathers huddle together to protect their eggs, nestled atop gentle, clawed feet and underneath a fold of warm, feathered skin.
Mothers instinctively return when hatchlings are a couple of days old. Most of them return, anyway. Seals have killed a few. "With a snap of its jaw," said Freeman, "the seal actually takes two lives – one of the mother and one of her unborn chick, who will never be fed."
Mothers assume care of the chicks so fathers can trod 70 miles to the sea to eat. For the next several months the two will take turns caring for their baby and shuttling back and forth to the ocean, until their baby is old enough to fend for itself.
As I watched MOTP, I wondered how people could ooh and aww when baby penguins pecked out of their shells, or cover their eyes when a giant petrel attacked a baby penguin, yet not give a thought to the dismemberment and killing of human babies.
I wondered, what would it take for people to connect? I juxtaposed the willingness of penguins to freeze and starve to death for their babies to the unwillingness of humans to forfeit any indulgence whatsoever for their babies.
I remembered last year's March for Women's Lives in Washington, D.C., when pro-aborts gathered to bolster their right to kill babies.
I thought, maybe a penguin movie analogy would help people understand.
The movie would open with militant feminist penguins marching to their ancient political breeding ground, where lusting, self-centered males waited. There they would all serial-mate, despising the prospect of producing babies. Should the unthinkable happen, close-ups would show frenzied penguins pecking open eggs and ripping babies apart, or inserting little hoses into the eggs to suction babies out. Fathers would abandon mothers who changed their minds and wanted to keep their eggs to fend for themselves.
But a movie like that won't ever be made, because it would expose anti-lifers as demented.
Still, I sometimes wish humans would behave more like animals.
Jill Stanek fought to stop "live-birth abortion" after witnessing one as a registered nurse at Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn, Ill. In 2002, President Bush asked Jill to attend his signing of the Born Alive Infants Protection Act. In January 2003, World Magazine named Jill one of the 30 most prominent pro-life leaders of the past 30 years. To learn more, visit Jill's blog, Pro-life Pulse.
By Jill Stanek
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com
Last week, my 5-year-old grandson and I went to see the movie, "March of the Penguins."
MOTP is a documentary that tells of the incredible sacrifices emperor penguins make to reproduce, protect their eggs, and safeguard their babies' lives in the harshest conditions on earth.
In light of the pro-life issue, I watch animal documentaries and dramas with mixed emotions. On one hand, there are usually a couple of scenes about pregnancy or giving birth corroborating that, yes, on a gut level, people do recognize the sanctity of life.
For instance, an early scene of "Finding Nemo" shows Nemo's desperate father, whose wife and incubating eggs have just been devoured by a predator, spotting Nemo, his lone surviving embryonic progeny, in a see-through egg. Instantly his despair turns to joy. He certainly does not consider his preborn son a blob of tissue.
On the other hand, scenes like this magnify the depravity of people who condone abortion, and I am refilled with angst.
MOTP hit me harder than most. Almost every scene and narrative verified the beauty of life and the rightness of protecting it.
Every March, as the Antarctic summer ends, scattered tribes of emperor penguins travel up to 70 miles to an ancient inland breeding ground, chosen instinctively because this is where ice is the thickest and will remain solid until the following summer, so the young won't fall through it. Upon arrival, penguins find mates with whom they are monogamous for a yearlong breeding cycle.
In early June, females lay one egg, and, as pro-abort actor Morgan Freeman narrated, "From now on the couple has but a single goal – keeping the egg alive ... The tiny beating heart within the shell cannot survive more than a moment in the freezing air."
(Mr. Freeman, do you ever contemplate what you read?)
By now, parents have gone without food for two months, and mom has lost 1/3 of her body weight. In a chivalrous role reversal, dads assume responsibility for their eggs for an incredible two additional months, so moms can trek 70 miles back to the sea for food and to regain strength to care for their hatchlings.
Sometimes when mom transfers the egg to dad, it cracks. In that case, narrated Freeman, "The couple can only watch as the ice claims their egg and the life within it."
Throughout the harshest winter in the world, when there is no sunlight, temperatures drop to -80 degrees, and winds blow 100 miles per hour, fathers huddle together to protect their eggs, nestled atop gentle, clawed feet and underneath a fold of warm, feathered skin.
Mothers instinctively return when hatchlings are a couple of days old. Most of them return, anyway. Seals have killed a few. "With a snap of its jaw," said Freeman, "the seal actually takes two lives – one of the mother and one of her unborn chick, who will never be fed."
Mothers assume care of the chicks so fathers can trod 70 miles to the sea to eat. For the next several months the two will take turns caring for their baby and shuttling back and forth to the ocean, until their baby is old enough to fend for itself.
As I watched MOTP, I wondered how people could ooh and aww when baby penguins pecked out of their shells, or cover their eyes when a giant petrel attacked a baby penguin, yet not give a thought to the dismemberment and killing of human babies.
I wondered, what would it take for people to connect? I juxtaposed the willingness of penguins to freeze and starve to death for their babies to the unwillingness of humans to forfeit any indulgence whatsoever for their babies.
I remembered last year's March for Women's Lives in Washington, D.C., when pro-aborts gathered to bolster their right to kill babies.
I thought, maybe a penguin movie analogy would help people understand.
The movie would open with militant feminist penguins marching to their ancient political breeding ground, where lusting, self-centered males waited. There they would all serial-mate, despising the prospect of producing babies. Should the unthinkable happen, close-ups would show frenzied penguins pecking open eggs and ripping babies apart, or inserting little hoses into the eggs to suction babies out. Fathers would abandon mothers who changed their minds and wanted to keep their eggs to fend for themselves.
But a movie like that won't ever be made, because it would expose anti-lifers as demented.
Still, I sometimes wish humans would behave more like animals.
Jill Stanek fought to stop "live-birth abortion" after witnessing one as a registered nurse at Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn, Ill. In 2002, President Bush asked Jill to attend his signing of the Born Alive Infants Protection Act. In January 2003, World Magazine named Jill one of the 30 most prominent pro-life leaders of the past 30 years. To learn more, visit Jill's blog, Pro-life Pulse.
Dear Pro-lifers,
Louisiana and Mississippi pregnancy resource centers are in desperate need of our help. Four New Orleans area pregnancy resource centers were destroyed by Katrina, and it t is unclear how incapacitated the Mississippi PRCs are, because no one has been able to get through to any of their directors.
That's the bad news. The good news is that five of eight Louisiana abortion clinics were also destroyed.
The PRCs in Baton Rouge, Shreveport, and other outer Louisiana areas have been inundated by families needing diapers and formula. Area hospitals are also asking the centers to recover post-partum patients.
The formula companies say they have sent huge shipments to the area, but they're not getting to the PRCs.
I spoke with three PRC directors in Louisiana yesterday, and they gave me a list of their greatest needs. We are going to collect donations in the Chicago area over the weekend at Parkview Christian Church (11100 Orland Parkway, Orland Park, Illinois 60467), and a semi is going to deliver them to Louisiana on Monday (September 12).
Here are the needs, in order of urgency:
1. Formula: Advanced Similac with iron; Enfamil with iron; any other formulas - dry, condensed, or ready to serve
2. Diapers, especially newborn
3. Infant car seats
4. Pedialyte
5. Bassinets
6. Baby wipes
More than that, the PRCs desperately need money. They need to finance mobile medical units to go into the devastated areas as they are accessible. A director told me that there is lots of giving going on to churches and relief agencies, but the PRCs are being overlooked.
We also need money to pay for the semi truck gas. (The truck and driver's time are being donated.) Donations for gas can be made to Concerned Women for America of IL, P. O. Box 188, Palos Heights, IL 60463.
There is also a need for volunteers to go to Louisiana and stay for a week or two or longer, particularly men for protection. A nurse at the Shreveport PRC says she will help find housing.
Donate directly online to: www.ctlm.org. These funds will go to finance mobile medical units and restoring pregnancy care centers.
Please distribute this alert widely.
Thank you very much,
Jill Stanek
Contact Information
email: jillstanek@comcast.net
web: http://www.jillstanek.com
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Louisiana and Mississippi pregnancy resource centers are in desperate need of our help. Four New Orleans area pregnancy resource centers were destroyed by Katrina, and it t is unclear how incapacitated the Mississippi PRCs are, because no one has been able to get through to any of their directors.
That's the bad news. The good news is that five of eight Louisiana abortion clinics were also destroyed.
The PRCs in Baton Rouge, Shreveport, and other outer Louisiana areas have been inundated by families needing diapers and formula. Area hospitals are also asking the centers to recover post-partum patients.
The formula companies say they have sent huge shipments to the area, but they're not getting to the PRCs.
I spoke with three PRC directors in Louisiana yesterday, and they gave me a list of their greatest needs. We are going to collect donations in the Chicago area over the weekend at Parkview Christian Church (11100 Orland Parkway, Orland Park, Illinois 60467), and a semi is going to deliver them to Louisiana on Monday (September 12).
Here are the needs, in order of urgency:
1. Formula: Advanced Similac with iron; Enfamil with iron; any other formulas - dry, condensed, or ready to serve
2. Diapers, especially newborn
3. Infant car seats
4. Pedialyte
5. Bassinets
6. Baby wipes
More than that, the PRCs desperately need money. They need to finance mobile medical units to go into the devastated areas as they are accessible. A director told me that there is lots of giving going on to churches and relief agencies, but the PRCs are being overlooked.
We also need money to pay for the semi truck gas. (The truck and driver's time are being donated.) Donations for gas can be made to Concerned Women for America of IL, P. O. Box 188, Palos Heights, IL 60463.
There is also a need for volunteers to go to Louisiana and stay for a week or two or longer, particularly men for protection. A nurse at the Shreveport PRC says she will help find housing.
Donate directly online to: www.ctlm.org. These funds will go to finance mobile medical units and restoring pregnancy care centers.
Please distribute this alert widely.
Thank you very much,
Jill Stanek
Contact Information
email: jillstanek@comcast.net
web: http://www.jillstanek.com
Join our mailing list!
Forward email
Sunday, September 04, 2005
Hurricane victim needs for baby items are more prevalent that we can imagine. Denver Bible Church is
seeking help for a family whose baby is due this week. They lost everything as thousands
have.
If you want to send layette items to
P.O. Box 518
Watkins, CO 80137
the items will be distributed to the needy.
For life,
Leslie
seeking help for a family whose baby is due this week. They lost everything as thousands
have.
If you want to send layette items to
P.O. Box 518
Watkins, CO 80137
the items will be distributed to the needy.
For life,
Leslie
Wednesday, August 17, 2005
Abortionist Warren Hern3 (2)
Are these the words of a respectable caring doctor, or a man driven by
bloodlust?
"We have reached a point in this particular technology [D&E abortion] where
there is no possibility of denial of an act of destruction by the operator.
It is before one's eyes. The sensations of dismemberment flow through the
forceps like an electric current."
Warren Hern's statement at an
Assoc. of Planned Parenthood
Physicians
meeting in San Diego Oct. 26
1978
"Most physicians regard abortion as a stigmatized operation done by people
who are otherwise incompetent and can't do anything else. If you're going to
do abortions and make that your specialty the best you can hope for is to be
tolerated by your colleagues. American
Medical News, September 5, 1994
Warren Hern indicts himself with his own statements.
Abortionist Warren Hern
We pray that God would take the wicked heart of Warren Hern and turn it
towards Himself. We pray that Jesus would apprehend his heart and enable
Mr. Hern to use the wonderful gifts and abilities given to him to bring
health, healing, and life, rather than destruction and death.
In Jesus Name!
Reverend Flip Benham
www. operationsaveamerica.org
Denver Prayer rally for Gush Katif
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