On a day that hundreds of thousands of American women were marching on the nation’s capitol over the slaughter of over 55 million babies in the 42 years of Roe v. Wade, President Obama marked the moment by speaking about his strong support for abortion.
“Forty-two years ago today, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling in Roe v. Wade, a decision that protects a woman’s freedom to make her own choices about her body and her health, and reaffirms a fundamental American value: that government should not intrude in our most private and personal family matters,” Obama wrote in an official statement.
“I am deeply committed to protecting this core constitutional right,” he continued. “The federal government should not be injecting itself into decisions best made between women, their families, and their doctors.”
The president also said he is committed to reducing unintended pregnancies, supporting maternal and child health, promoting adoptions and minimizing the need for abortions.
Republican leaders in Congress shelved a vote Thursday morning on the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act which would have banned abortions after 20 weeks because of some female representatives that said they would not be able to get votes in their districts because of it.
Those in attendance at the March were furious.
“[It was] one of the most disappointing moments of my life,” said Sen. Trent Franks (R-AZ), the main sponsor of the bill.
A new report shows that some of Illinois’ abortion clinics had not had an inspection from the state’s Department of Public Health in almost a decade.
The report from Illinois Right To Life says that 63 percent of the abortion clinics in the state had not received a health or sanitary inspection in three and a half years.
“The failure of the Department of Public Health to conduct regular health and sanitary inspections leaves women open to the prospect of unsterile surgical tools, dirty operating rooms, incomplete medical attention, infections, and possibly more deaths,” the group says.
The group discovered there is no inspection policy for abortion clinics regarding cleanliness or sanitation.
“It’s quite scary,” Emily Zender, the group’s executive director, says in the report. “While news reports warn of MRSA, urge flu vaccination, and praise hospital Ebola training, abortion providers are allowed to perform invasive surgical procedures in unsanitary conditions.”
The state’s five Planned Parenthood locations that perform abortions are not licensed and the state has not inspected them for sanitary conditions since 2000.
The state could not provide documentation that women who underwent abortions in the unsanitary clinics were warned about possible exposure to HIV or other infections and diseases because of dirty equipment.
Planned Parenthood won’t be able to perform abortions at their new facility in New Orleans.
The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals rejected a request from Planned Parenthood to allow for abortions to take place at a currently under construction facility.
“Planned Parenthood’s application for an outpatient abortion facility license was denied by the department based on failure to demonstrate the need for an outpatient abortion facility in the DHH Region 1, as well as failure to meet the requirements of a facility need review process,” Ashley C. Lewis, a spokesperson for the DHH, told The Christian Post. Lewis said the department ruled this way because: “The number of other outpatient abortion facilities in the same geographic location, region and the area serving the same population; as well as allegations involving issues of access to outpatient abortion services.”
Pro-abortion activists are blaming Governor Bobby Jindal, saying that he has taken steps to stop abortion from growing in the state of Louisiana. They have taken the state to court over laws that, for example, require doctors who perform abortions to be able to admit patients to a hospital within 30 miles.
A spokeswoman for Americans United for Life told the Christian Post that Planned Parenthood is always seeking to expand their abortion business and expects the group to try again to open an abortion room at the new facility.
In a nod to the pro-abortion lobby, Republicans have backed off a plan to vote on a bill that would ban abortions after 20 weeks.
Several female Republican representatives quietly worked to kill the vote for the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protect Act Resources bill. North Carolina Representative Renee Ellmers and Indiana Representative Jackie Walorski reportedly provided the greatest opposition to the bill, removing their names as co-sponsors, although they claimed on Facebook they would still vote for the bill.
Supporters of the bill say that the women who objected claimed Republicans couldn’t get votes from women if they passed the measure.
Politico broke the news of the action Wednesday night.
“Republican leadership late Wednesday evening had to completely drop its plans to pass a bill that bans abortions after 20 weeks, and is reverting to old legislation that prohibits taxpayer funding of abortions,” Politico’s Jake Sherman wrote, adding later in his piece, “the new legislation doesn’t stand a chance to become law.”
The vote was scheduled to be held Thursday on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade and the annual March for Life.
A North Carolina woman who was attacked and raped on a business trip is sharing the story of her choice to choose life.
Jennifer Christie won’t reveal the location of the attack other than to say it was at a hotel in a college town. She said that she opened her hotel room door and when she turned to close it, a large man attacked her, struck her in the face and then raped her. She was found unconscious on a staircase.
A month later while working on a cruise ship, she fell ill with dysentery. An ultrasound was conducted during the examination and she discovered she was pregnant.
“I spent the next week listening to a team of very well meaning doctors and nurses console me with how ‘easy’ it would be to ‘take care of it’—to kill the child,” she recalled.
Christie said that it was during that time she turned to God.
“For the first time, I thought of how God can use this, this nightmare I’d endured—use me,” she explained.
“Our little boy may have been conceived in violence, but he is a gift from God—a delicious gift that filled the hole in our family that we never realized was there,” she said. “He made us complete.”
Christie is now speaking out about what she calls the culture of death surrounding abortion.
The Obama administration has stated they oppose a bill in Congress that would ban abortions after five months.
The administration says that the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act is an “assault on a woman’s right to choose.”
“The administration strongly opposes H.R. 36, which would unacceptably restrict women’s health and reproductive rights and is an assault on a woman’s right to choose,” the White House Office of Management and Budget wrote in a memo on Tuesday. “Women should be able to make their own choices about their bodies and their health care, and government should not inject itself into decisions best made between a woman and her doctor.”
The bill is scheduled for a vote in the House Thursday, the 42nd anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision to legalize abortion.
“[T]here is substantial medical evidence that an unborn child is capable of experiencing pain at least by 20 weeks after fertilization, if not earlier,” the bill reads. “It is the purpose of the Congress to assert a compelling governmental interest in protecting the lives of unborn children from the stage at which substantial medical evidence indicates that they are capable of feeling pain.”
A bill has been introduced in the House of Representatives that would ban abortions after the 20th week of pregnancy.
The bill is sponsored by Rep. Ted Franks (R-AZ) and Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN). The bill is the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. The bill is similar to one that passed the House last year but wasn’t allowed to be voted on in the Democrat controlled Senate.
“More than 18,000 ‘very late term’ abortions are performed every year on perfectly healthy unborn babies in America,” Franks asserted in a statement to Life News. “These are innocent and defenseless children who can not only feel pain, but who can survive outside the womb in most cases, and who are torturously killed without even basic anesthesia.”
“Many of them cry and scream as they die, but because it is amniotic fluid going over their vocal cords instead of air, we don’t hear them,” Franks said. “Later term abortion in America has its defenders, but no true or principled defense. The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act seeks to afford basic protection to mothers and their unborn babies entering the sixth month of gestation.”
A survey by the Polling Company says that 64 percent of Americans would support a law banning abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy unless the mother’s life was in danger.
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) plans to introduce a similar measure in the Senate before the end of the month.
Planned Parenthood reported a near record-breaking profit of $127.1 million dollars in 2013 as they performed over 327,000 abortions.
The total of 327,653 was an increase of 500 abortions from the previous year despite the rest of the abortion industry seeing an overall decline in the number of infant deaths.
The profit for the group includes over $528 million dollars in taxpayer money that funds of the abortion-celebrating group.
“The big picture is that abortion numbers are sinking to record new lows and that is because of the abortion clinic closures,” Cheryl Sullenger of Operation Rescue told The Christian Post. “Unfortunately, Planned Parenthood has an artificial money stream that comes into their organization from the United States government to the tune of about a half a billion dollars a year.”
“They say that the money doesn’t go to abortions. It goes to other services,” Sullenger explained. “But frankly, it goes into a general fund, and the money gets spent for whatever they need it to be spent for. I think it is disingenuous to say that they have segregated the federal tax dollars.”
The report celebrating Planned Parenthood’s abortions showed that 94 percent of the group’s pregnancy services in 2013 were abortions. The totals show 174 abortions for every adoption referral.
The total number of adoption referrals by the group fell 14 percent.
Polls show that 70 percent of Americans oppose taxpayer money funding Planned Parenthood.
Pro-abortion groups in Wisconsin are in a tizzy after the sheriff of Milwaukee spoke out in a very pro-life way.
Sheriff David Clarke said that anyone who is protesting with the statement “black lives matter” should be protesting abortion as vigorously as they are supporting Michael Brown or Eric Garner.
“If only these faux protesters were asked by media about all the black on black killing or black babies aborted in US every year,” Clarke told a New York Times journalist.
Clarke didn’t back down when CNN came after him for the statement.
“When I hear these things that black lives matter, the only people who really believe that statement are American police officers who go into American ghettos every day to keep people from killing each other. Alright, so, yes I did send that and I meant it,” Clarke said. “Look, the abortions? If black lives—if they really mattered, that’s where the outrage would be that’s where we’d see protests…”
Clarke, a rare conservative voice in the black community, is not the only black leader speaking out regarding abortion and the “black lives matter” movement.
“Mainstream media does everything it can to protect the most racist institution in America that actually kills for a living—the abortion industry,” said Ryan Bomberger of the Radiance Foundation. “How sincere is the mantra that #BlackLivesMatter if the violent act of abortion and the disproportionate slaughter of unborn minority children is praised as ‘reproductive justice’?”
A Dallas pastor is calling on the black community of Dallas to rise up against a new abortion center of Planned Parenthood that is surrounded by an 8-foot high concrete wall so people cannot see what is happening inside the complex.
Pastor Stephen Broden of Fair Park Bible Fellowship Church is calling on black megachurches to join their protest of the 17,000 square foot abortion center that he says was deliberately placed in the middle of a black neighborhood.
“Planned Parenthood has built a wall to shield their clients from the presence of God’s prayer warriors who pray to end abortion at one of Texas’ largest abortion facilities. This death trap is located in the middle of the black community, within a 1 mile radius of six of Texas’ black mega churches. And 5 miles of seven. A wall cannot hide their bloody hands from the presence of an omnipresent God,” wrote Broden in a Dec. 6 post on his Facebook page.
“That’s why it’s absolutely essential for us to communicate to these churches who are in this community that they have an obligation, a responsibility, to offer to the community in the public square a voice of God concerning His view of life and the dignity and value of life and when life begins.”
Abortion statistics show that black women have abortions five times the rate of other races.