A controversial new abortion center planned by Planned Parenthood has found a company that is happy to pour concrete for the mega-facility.
The 8,000 square foot center to abort babies has been delayed partly because local contractors did not want to work with the organization to create the building. The group wants to create the facility in New Orleans which now has only one location for women to abort their babies.
“The Department simply stated that they didn’t meet the need requirement,” Bill Shanks, pastor of New Covenant Fellowship in Kenner, told Christian News Network. “[Planned Parenthood’s] statement was that New Orleans was 2,844 abortions less than the national average, therefore we need their facility to bring it up—to kill 2,844 babies so we could be with the national average. And the Department of Health and Hospitals rejected that.”
Absolute Concrete Solutions accepted the order. When members of King Jesus Ministries approached the owners to reconsider, they were told that if they gave the company $20,000 the order would be cancelled. Then Linda Backes, one of the owners, said ‘I’m for Planned Parenthood and I’m for abortion,’ and she said, ‘If we let all these little kids live, they’ll just grow up and kill us” according to the Christian group.
A Baptist preacher’s wife caught working at an abortion clinic is lashing out at Christians who are condemning her for ending the lives of babies. She says that no one has the right to condemn her because everyone sins.
“I feel that we have all sinned. None of us are perfect. No sin is greater than any sin. I don’t know why, other than that’s the only decision [abortion] that a woman could make. That’s her right to make that decision because that’s her body,” Callie Chatman, a certified medical technician who works at Reproductive Health Services told The Christian Post in an interview Sunday.
The controversy about Callie Chatman came to light last week when a Missouri Service Corps missionary with the North American Mission Board posted a video of her pastor husband dropping her off at the abortion clinic.
“Sadly, this is a Montgomery pastor dropping off his wife who works at the abortuary here in Montgomery. We have spoken to her often and the only response we get is that God forgives and we are not to judge. Her husband is the pastor of New Elam Baptist Church. Her son works here as well as the security,” wrote David Day Sr. on the video description.
Chapman responded angrily to direct comments from those who are against her assisting in the death of babies.
“You know what? The activists need to get their lives together. When they become sin free then you call me back.”
The British Parliament has voted against a bill that would prohibit a woman from getting an abortion based on the sex of the child.
The 292 to 201 vote against the amendment has caused pro-life groups across Britain to react in horror. The groups say that the Parliament has failed to protect the lives of millions of unborn girls who will be killed solely because of their gender.
“Parliament yesterday failed in its duty to ensure women are not discriminated against at all stages of their lives. Instead, it caved in to the intense lobbying efforts of the abortion industry and its advocates, against the outlawing of sex selection abortion,” UK pro-life group LIFE said in a statement.
“The abortion of girls because of their sex has no place in modern societies which embrace equality and non-discrimination against women.”
Politicians who voted against the measure tried to claim that existing law prohibits sex selective abortions. Prime Minister David Cameron said the law could have potentially blocked women from obtaining abortions in the event a child has severe abnormalities.
The Department of Health and Human Services has admitted that illegal alien unaccompanied minors who have been given status to stay in the U.S. by the Obama Administration will be offered free abortions.
The HHS issued a regulation that does not specifically mention abortion as a required emergency medical service but an officials from Administration for Children and Families told CNSNews.com that abortion is one of those offered services.
“The ‘lawful pregnancy-related medical services’ includes abortion,” the email statement said.
The HHS regulations also includes giving emergency contraception such as Plan B.
“Care provider facilities must provide UC victims of sexual abuse timely, unimpeded access to emergency medical treatment, crisis intervention services, emergency contraception, and sexually transmitted infections prophylaxis, in accordance with professionally accepted standards of care, where appropriate under medical or mental health professional standards,” reads one regulation that must be followed by caregivers for the illegal immigrant children.
The Health and Human Service’s Office of Refuge Resettlement acknowledged there could be religious objections to the policy and they would try to work with them but the needs of the patient will be considered first.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Washington is attempting to force a hospital to perform abortions in their facility.
The lawsuit claims that Skagit Regional Health is violating a state law that requires medical facilities that provide maternity care to also kill babies via abortion. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of a woman who is doctoral nursing student.
“As a woman and a health care provider, I care deeply about reproductive health issues. I want to make sure that women throughout Washington have access to the full range of reproductive health care services,” Kevan Coffey said in a statement. “And I personally want to have all options, including abortion, available to me.”
“The right of women to choose or to refuse to have an abortion is fundamental and has long been recognized under Washington law,” said ACLU Executive Director Kathleen Taylor. “We want to ensure that all women in our state can access the full range of reproductive health care at public health facilities in their communities.”
The state has said numerous times that hospitals have to provide abortion services if they want to provide maternity services.
A Gallup survey finds that many Americans are not happy with the current laws regarding abortion in the nation and those who are dissatisfied want stricter laws by a 2-1 margin.
The poll showed that only 34 percent of Americans are satisfied with current abortion law. That’s the lowest since Gallup began polling on the question.
Almost half, 48 percent, are dissatisfied with current policies. Twenty-four percent want stricter laws while the remaining 24 percent was split evenly between keeping the laws the same despite their dissatisfaction and making abortion easier to obtain.
Those polled who identified as Republicans showed the greatest level of increasing dissatisfaction with abortion laws. Satisfaction with the laws has fallen from 42 percent to 26 percent in the last three years.
Democrats and independent voters have stayed roughly the same when it came to their satisfaction levels. However, among independents, the dissatisfied would like to see stricter laws by a margin of 25 to 9 percent.
The polling had a margin of error of four percentage points.
Plan B, the emergency contraceptive that has been the focus of court battles involving the Affordable Care Act, has been shown to work by causing an abortion according to the medical data reviewed in The Linacre Quarterly.
The drug is one covered by the birth control mandate in the Affordable Care Act. Health and Human Services Administration officials claimed that the drug is not an abortifacient drug and should be covered by all businesses.
The Hobby Lobby case at the Supreme Court had the justices ruling those drugs did not need to be covered. Now, there is scientific proof backing up the claims of Hobby Lobby and other businesses that the drugs produce abortions.
The most recent scientific and medical evidence proves that Plan B “quite often” causes an abortion if taken before ovulation which is how women do not get pregnant after taking the emergency contraceptive.
The Linacre Quarterly is the official journal of the Catholic Medical Association.
Judie Brown, president of American Life League, told the Christian Post she agreed with the article’s conclusions.
“Catholic bishops have been assured, by Plan B proponents, that the drug does not cause an abortion,” Brown said. “We now know this is not true. There is a grave risk that preborn human lives are being killed by Plan B, and Catholic hospitals need to immediately halt dispensing these drugs and review their policies.”
Several states are seeing bills pushed forward to stop abortion after 20 weeks in the fallout of House Republicans pulling a vote on their federal level Pain Capable Abortion bills.
Ten states already have 20 week abortion bans while pro-abortionists have going to court to block laws in Arizona, Georgia and Idaho.
Ohio Right to Life announced Tuesday that legislators in their state house will introduce a 20 week abortion ban.
“Our Pain-Capable legislation will alter the abortion debate in Ohio,” Stephanie Ranade Krider, the group’s executive director, told the Washington Examiner. “An overwhelming majority of Americans, especially women, support protecting pre-born babies from scalpels and dismemberment. This is priority legislation for Ohio Right to Life and once again, the nation is watching.”
A poll by Quinnipiac University says that 60 percent of Americans oppose a ban on abortions after 20 weeks. Only 33 percent of Americans were opposed to the ban.
The House Republican’s decision to pull the vote at the last minute has been causing problems with pro-life organizations across the country who feel national leadership abandoned them.
For years Democratic candidates and spokesmen have been slamming Republicans for saying that the Affordable Care Act provides funding for abortions.
Now, in a roundabout way, they are finally admitting it after Republicans passed a bill that would ban funding for abortions through the ACA. The No Taxpayer Funding For Abortion Act passed 242-179 and says that any insurance plan that receives government funding cannot pay for abortions.
Democrats says that the bill raises taxes on small businesses because they currently receive a tax credit from the government if they provide abortion coverage to employees. Without the tax credit, employers are less likely to cover employee abortions.
Republicans say that the bill does nothing to employers. All that would happen is that employers would no longer automatically cover abortions because of the government’s funding the tax credit. If an employer wants to cover employee’s abortions, they can choose to pay that out of their own company profits.
The Family Research Council said on a website, ObamacareAbortion.com, that the abortion tax credit is another way the lack of transparency is hurting Christian business owners who do not want to pay for abortion.
A former Olympic gymnast for Great Britain is refusing doctors demands that she abort her triplets because of “potential health risks” to the babies.
35-year-old Jaime Halsey and her husband were thrilled in October to find they were going to be parents of triplets. Doctors then began to pressure them because of fears the babies would suffer from IUGR: Intrauterine Growth Restriction.
“We had our first scan in Northampton at 12 weeks and were immediately referred to specialists at John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford,” she told the Northampton Chronicle. “They told us one of the twins is 25 percent smaller than the other and there’s a massive risk of further growth restrictions.”
“I also risk putting my body under three times the strain to keep them healthy,” she explained, “so they advised the termination.”
Halsey says that she flatly rejected the call of the doctors to abort two of the babies to let the third live.
“Everything went well at the last scan and all three babies are growing well,” Mr. Halsey told reporters. “The one twin remains smaller, but all three are extremely active, which is good news.”
Halsey was the UK’s first female to compete in trampoline when she appeared in the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games.