The U.S. Supreme Court has stepped in to block a law that was designed to protect the health of women seeking to end the lives of their babies via abortion in Texas.
In an unsigned order from the court, they supported abortionists and those who advocate the killing of babies via abortion by suspending the October 2nd ruling of an appeals court that said that Texas law could take effect while appeals take place.
The court also put on hold a part of the law that requires doctors to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals for abortionists near the Texas/Mexico border.
“This does not protect the health and safety of women who are undergoing abortion,” said Joe Pojman, executive director of Texas Alliance for Life. “”This is definitely a short-term loss, but not necessarily a long- term loss.”
Texas state attorneys say that the law is not a burden on women who want to kill their babies, because nearly 9 in 10 women still live within 150 miles of an abortionist.
Seven California churches have filed suit against the state because they are being forced to pay for abortions.
The California Department of Managed Health Care sent letters to seven insurance companies that refused to offer abortion coverage.
“Abortion is a basic health care service,” director Michelle Rouillard wrote to the seven insurance companies that refused to offer coverage.“All health plans must treat maternity services and legal abortion neutrally.”
The Life Legal Defense Foundation and the Alliance Defending Freedom are defending the churches, claiming the state’s mandate is a violation of the federal Weldon Amendment, which says a state can be forfeited of certain funds if they discriminate against a healthcare provider who does not pay for abortions.
“Forcing a church to be party to elective abortion is one of the utmost-imaginable assaults on our most fundamental American freedoms,” ADF Senior Counsel Casey Mattox also stated in a press release about the matter on Thursday. “California is flagrantly violating the federal law that protects employers from being forced into having abortion in their health insurance plans. No state can blatantly ignore federal law and think that it should continue to receive taxpayer money.”
A publicly funded California university is offering a free online class to promote abortion.
The University of California – San Francisco announced the six week class called “Aboriton: Quality Care and Public Health Implications.”
“I think that if we can inspire even a small portion of the people who take the course to take steps in their communities to increase access to safe abortion and decrease stigma about abortion, then we have been totally successful,” Dr. Jody Steinauer, associate professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences at the University of California – San Francisco, told The Daily Beast who broke the story.
The school claims over 3,000 people have signed up for the class.
The outline of the class shows the pro-abortion propaganda taxpayers are funding.
“Each week’s lectures will incorporate the stories of women who seek abortion in order to better portray abortion significance and rationale,” its outline states. “Other topics will include a brief history of abortion, the clinical aspects of medication and procedural abortions in and after the first trimester, an overview of patient-centered abortion-care, the basics of abortion counseling, the professional obligations of health care practitioners to ensure that women have access to safe abortion care, and the maze of restrictions that make safe abortion care inaccessible to many women.”
A Federal appeals court has upheld a Texas law that will close many of the state’s abortion facilities.
A three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans reversed the decision of Judge Lee Yeakel, the second time his rulings to keep abortion clinics from having to meet cleanliness standards for surgical centers had been overturned by the appeals court.
“Without any evidence on these points, plaintiffs do not appear to have met their burden to show that the ambulatory surgical center provision will result in insufficient clinic capacity that will impose an undue burden on a large fraction of women,” the appeals court ruled.
While those standing for the lives of unborn children were pleased with the ruling, they were disappointed that abortions will still continue in the state.
“The reality is that elective abortions will continue to remain readily available in Texas; that’s not our preference, but that’s the reality,” Joe Pojman, executive director of the Alliance for Life, told reporters. “Because there are seven very large ambulatory surgical centers that provide abortion in the major metropolitan cities women will still have ready access to elective abortions.”
The California Catholic Conference has taken the state government to court over the state’s order that all Catholic institutions pay for voluntary direct abortions.
The abortions that must be covered include abortions for gender selection and for late-term abortions.
“Catholic beliefs about life and human dignity animate and shape our Catholic ministries,” Bishop Robert McElroy, auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of San Francisco told the Christian Post. “It’s why we oppose abortion, but it is also why Catholic schools provide education, Catholic hospitals care for the poor and vulnerable and why Catholic social services provide assistance to people and families in need. It goes to the core of our moral beliefs.”
The group claims that the state’s orders violate federal human rights laws.
“This is a coercive and discriminatory action by the state of California,” McElroy added. “This demand by the state was directly targeted at Catholic institutions like Santa Clara University, Loyola Marymount University, along with other California employers and citizens. It is a flagrant violation of their civil rights and deepest moral convictions, and is government coercion of the worst kind.”
The governor of Vermont has nothing but praise for an organization that kills tens of thousands of children every year.
Governor Peter Shumlin said that all residents of Vermont should feel “blessed” to have the “extraordinary work” of the organization in their state. Vermont is the only state in the nation where you can kill your baby via abortion during all nine months of pregnancy.
“Vermont is unusual. We should be blessed to live here with a Planned Parenthood that does extraordinary work, and a legislature that will stand behind you,” he said. “Let’s make Vermont an example for how this nation should deal with health care and reproductive rights.”
Planned Parenthood has 11 facilities in the state and receives $1.8 million dollars a year in Title X family planning funds.
Those standing for the lives of unborn children say that Planned Parenthood has an undue amount of influence of state politics.
“Sometimes we refer to them here in Vermont as the fourth branch of government,” Mary Hahn Beerworth of Vermont Right To Life said. “In 2010, when Peter Shumlin ran for governor for the first time, Planned Parenthood illegally raised and spent over $100,000 to run television ads that may well have made the difference in the election [as] they were run in the last few weeks. Most recently, our attorney general fined them $30,000 when he found them in violation of the law.”
World groups are using the 34th anniversary of China’s “One Child” policy to condemn the country for the millions of forced abortions carried out since the policy’s introduction.
The group Women’s Rights Without Frontiers sent a letter to Chinese President Xi Jinping condemning the ongoing forced abortions in the country and the fact the government celebrates the killing of babies.
“Your government has boasted that it has ‘prevented’ more than 400 million births through this policy. These births have been prevented through forced abortions, involuntary sterilizations, confiscatory ‘terror fines,’ gendercide and infanticide — all in violation of international human rights law,” the group wrote.
The group condemned the new “two-child” policy adopted by the government for any parent who is an only child. They said the forced abortions will continue under the new policy.
“Allowing a relatively small number of families to have a second child will not end gendercide or sexual slavery in China,” the group wrote.
“The selective abortion and abandonment of baby girls is most prevalent in the countryside, where couples already can have a second child if the first child is a girl. Even if the most recent modification were to improve gender ratios at birth, the impact on sexual slavery would not be felt for decades to come.”
Scott Brown, the Republican candidate for the Senate in New Hampshire, has rejected the party’s stance of standing for the life of unborn children.
Scott Brown said he supports a woman’s “right” to kill her baby via abortion.
The New Hampshire Republican Party announced over the weekend they are supporting “the pre-born child’s fundamental right to life and personhood under the Fourteenth Amendment,” as well as its support for the “Life at Conception Act.” Pro-abortion Democrat Senator Jeanne Shaheen immediately condemned the move and tried to say Brown supported the position.
“I’m a pro-choice, independent Republican,” Brown said Monday at the UNH School of Law. “So I don’t agree with that particular part of the platform, however I have always felt that we are a big tent party, we have the opportunity to agree or disagree.”
Those fighting for the lives of unborn children were outraged by Brown’s comments.
“Can you imagine a Democratic Senate candidate doubling down on his unqualified hostility for the Democratic Party platform on such an important issue?” Keith Mason of Personhood USA asked. “There’s no way the Democratic party bosses would allow it to happen. This is a clarion call for the Republican Party to stand up to poseurs in its own party who undermine principles of human rights and dignity.”
“Scott Brown has staked out an extreme position on abortion that contradicts the conservative values of his electorate. I commend the New Hampshire Republican Party for following in the steps of President Reagan by taking this principled stand on the most important human rights issue facing our nation.”
A woman who aborted her child is speaking out in the London newspapers.
Lora Bishop went to the Daily Mail newspaper after a pro-abortion columnist wrote a piece claiming that her decision to kill her baby via abortion was “no big deal.”
Lora told the Daily Mail about how after her abortion the guilt pounded her to the point that she took an overdose of drugs. She said that before her abortion the doctor told her not to look at the screen showing her baby on ultrasound because the doctor was concerned she would change her mind and give her baby life.
The Daily Mail also talked to other people who were directly impacted by abortion and shared their stories of the pain that came from the decision to end a child’s life.
A woman named Mary shared about how her life has been tormented following the abortion on her 22-year-old daughter.
“I grieved for the grandchild I would never hold,” Mary said. “I understand that women can have very mixed emotions when they have had a termination: relief and sadness. But I hope that someone can spare a thought for the people who have no say in the matter and do their best to support their daughters, but, ultimately, would rather hold a grandchild in their arms.”
A former Portland-area teacher who stood up to Planned Parenthood is filing a lawsuit after the school punished him and refused to renew his contract.
Bill Diss, an 11-year math and computer science teacher at Benson High School in Portland, Oregon, has been an outspoken critic of Planned Parenthood and their abortion services. In March 2014, police removed him because he refused to allow the abortionists in his classroom.
The abortionists were going through the school bribing students to sign up for a program by promising gifts and cash.
In 2012, he had refused to allow the group into the classroom. The principal and vice principal then came into the room and temporarily removed him from the room. The next day, the school forced him to sit on instruction from Planned Parenthood. The school also used his name on documents sent home with students promoting Planned Parenthood without his permission.
“Because he expressed his opposition to the activities of Planned Parenthood at Benson High School, [Diss] became a target,” the legal challenge reads. “They launched a full-scale assault on the plaintiff as a teacher. He was observed and evaluated on the most minute aspects of his teaching.”
“As the attention mounted, the plaintiff was summoned for questioning by Benson High School administrators,” the lawsuit states. “He was interrogated about his activities by the principal and by an attorney for the district. The activities in question occurred on his own time, not at school, nonetheless he was specifically instructed not to mention the fact that he was a teacher or where he worked when making public statements.”
The school denies they persecuted this teacher because he would not support the abortionist group.