The final two employees of the “abortion house of horrors” run by convicted murderer Kermit Gosnell have been sentenced for their parts in killing babies born alive and the death of a young woman from a botched abortion.
Lynda Wiliams, 45, the acting phlebotomist at the clinic, was sentenced to 5 to 10 years in prison on two counts of third-degree murder. However, Philadelphia Common Pleas Court Judge Benjamin Lerner then reduced the overall term to just 2 ½ years in prison.
Williams had been charged with multiple charges but they were ultimately reduced to just the two counts of third-degree murder.
Tina Baldwin, 48, who was the receptionist for the clinic but also illegally gave anesthesia to women when she had no training to do it or licensing to do it, was sentenced to 30 months of probation for her guilty please to sustaining a corrupt organization.
Baldwin had been facing multiple charges as well, including corruption of a minor for having her 15-year-old daughter participating in the illegal activities of the clinic.
The case did have some positives result. Jack McMahon, the attorney for Gosnell, told Fox News that abortion should be banned after 17 weeks. He also called for inspection of abortion clinics, which has been roundly denounced by pro-abortion groups.
Notorious late-term abortionist Dennis Christensen of Wisconsin is trying to find a replacement for him at his clinic as a law that is on hold because of a judge threatens to put his clinic out of business.
The law, passed by the Wisconsin legislature 2013 and signed by Governor Scott Walker, would require all doctors who end babies lives via abortion to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of their abortion clinic. The law has been on hold because of U.S. District Judge William Conley pending a decision in the challenge to the law.
Christensen says that he and his partner Bernard Smith have been denied privileges at all the hospitals within 30 miles of their clinic, Affiliated Medical Services of Milwaukee. Should the judge refuse to strike down the law, the clinic would be forced to immediately close.
Christiansen says that he’s been turned down because he hasn’t treated an abortion patient in a hospital setting in over a decade. He told a judge that because his patients haven’t been in the hospital, it’s been a detriment to his gain privileges.
However, pro-life organization 40 Days for Life says the abortionist was lying to the judge. They have been tracking ambulance calls and say that nine times there were calls from the clinic. Four of the women who were then rushed to a hospital had to have emergency hysterectomies that they blame on the abortionist.
Christiansen’s other clinic in Illinois was shut down because the surgical equipment was sanitized and conditions were considered “not to be a sanitary environment.”
A Swedish woman was denied a job with three different medical clinics because she would not perform abortions.
The Alliance Defending Freedom has filed a brief with the court on behalf of Ellinor Grimmark. Grimmark was subjected to verbal harassment because of her beliefs and openly denied employment because of those beliefs.
“No one deserves to be denied a job simply because she is pro-life,” said ADF Senior Legal Counsel Roger Kiska. “International laws to which Sweden is obligated recognize freedom of conscience and make clear that being pro-abortion cannot be a requirement for employment, nor can medical facilities force nurses and midwives with a conscience objection to assist with practices that can lead to an abortion.”
One of the defendants, Varnamo Hospital, had offered a position to Grimmark but withdrew it when they discovered she was pro-life.
The ADF brief points out that the Council of Europe has ruled “no person, hospital or institution shall be coerced, held liable or discriminated against in any manner because of a refusal to perform, accommodate, assist or submit to an abortion, the performance of a human miscarriage, or euthanasia or any act which could cause the death of a human fetus or embryo, for any reason.”
The case is currently pending.
A woman who was given an abortion pill after a miscarriage was shocked to discover that she was still pregnant.
The woman and her husband are now celebrating the miraculous birth of their daughter Megan.
Michelle Hui believed she was pregnant with her third child with husband Ross. Six weeks into her pregnancy she suffered a miscarriage and her doctor gave her abortion-inducing drugs because they wanted to make sure her uterus was completely cleaned out.
What none of them knew at the time was that Michelle had been carrying twins and the miscarriage only took the life of one of the babies.
Ten days after she was given the medication, she went back in for another procedure and was as surprised as the doctor to hear a heartbeat.
“The doctor went out and came back in with a more senior doctor and he did the scan again and he said, ‘You are not going to believe it – we’ve got a heartbeat.’ It was the best feeling ever. Now Megan is fine. She’s healthy and she is just a big healthy pudding of a baby. The doctors said it was a blessing. They have never heard of anything like it. Someone had been looking over us,” Michelle told the Christian Post.
Her doctors could not provide a single medical reason why Megan survived.
The Supreme Court’s ruling that a Massachusetts law declaring a 35-foot buffer zone around abortion clinics was unconstitutional is having reach far beyond the Bay State.
A number of cities around the country are now halting enforcement of buffer zone laws because they do not believe the laws will stand up to the new standard set by the Court.
Burlington, Vermont, which has a similar 35-foot buffer zone law on the books, is suspending enforcement of the law. The city’s attorney said that she will work with the city council to eliminate the prohibition from the law while still protecting the entrances and exits of the clinics.
Other cities suspending buffer zone laws include Portland, Oregon and Madison, Wisconsin.
“The government cannot gag speech just because it doesn’t reflect the government’s views or the views of abortionists,” Alliance Defending Freedom’s Matt Bowman stated. “The Supreme Court has now made it even more clear that public streets and sidewalks are places where free speech is highly protected.”
Missouri Democrat Governor Jay Nixon has vetoed a bill that would have required a 72-hour wait before ending the life of a baby via abortion.
The bill would have tripled the current 24-hour waiting period for an abortion.
“[This bill has] no demonstrable purpose other than to create emotional and financial hardships for women who have undoubtedly already spent considerable time wrestling with perhaps the most difficult decision they may ever have to make,” Nixon said.
The governor also said the bill was “extreme and disrespectful” and would “unnecessarily prolong the suffering of rape and incest victims and jeopardize the health and wellbeing of women.”
Republicans said they would attempt to override the veto during a September session. It would require a 2/3 vote of both houses to override the governor.
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a Christian college is not required to cover emergency contraceptives it believes causes abortions.
The court ruled 6-3 to allow Wheaton College temporary relief from the birth control mandate while the case makes it’s way through the lower courts. The court’s three liberal women justices objected to the injunction, saying that a Christian school should be forced to provide abortion-inducing drugs.
The school had been required under the health care mandate to sign forms allowing a third party to provide the abortion drugs. The school says that permitting someone else to provide the service inherently makes them complicit in allow the abortion drugs to be given to end the lives of babies.
Justice Sonya Sotomayor, writing for the three liberal justices in their dissent, said making Christians pay for abortions is not a “substantial” burden on their religious beliefs.
“Let me be absolutely clear: I do not doubt that Wheaton genuinely believes that signing the self-certification form is contrary to its religious beliefs. But thinking one’s religious beliefs are substantially burdened — no matter how sincere or genuine that belief may be — does not make it so,” she wrote.
A former clinic manager for Planned Parenthood is speaking out about that organization’s drive to create as many abortions as possible.
Abby Johnson, who spent ten years working for the abortion group, told the Christian Post that Planned Parenthood has a model where abortion is the only way to make money and generate revenue.
“Workers know there’s a quota. They become sales people for abortion, otherwise Planned Parenthood will lay off workers,” said Johnson.
Johnson is speaking out after releasing a photo of an award that Planned Parenthood gave to its Aurora, Colorado clinic praising them for killing more babies via abortion in the first half of Fiscal Year 2013 compared to the previous year.
“We were rewarded in some ways — if we met our quotas, we’d have a pizza party or the COO would come down and take us to lunch or something like that. But to actually have an award on paper, that was something I had never seen before,” said Johnson.
Johnson said that Planned Parenthood is lying to the public when they say they provide prenatal services to women. She said all the organization does is provide prenatal vitamins but all other services were stopped in 2009.
Johnson said that Planned Parenthood heads use “creative accounting” to claim only 3 percent of overall revenue comes from abortion when in reality it’s over 50 percent.
Dr. Ben Carson made a bold statement during a DoveTV interview where he compared abortion today with human sacrifice throughout history.
Dr. Carson said that Americans routinely criticize religions and cultures that in the past sacrificed their children to various “gods” but say nothing when women actively protest for the right to kill their babies for the god of self.
“It’s interesting,” Carson said in his interview with Perry Atkinson, “that we sit around and call other ancient civilizations heathens because of human sacrifice, but aren’t we actually guilty of the same thing?”
Carson also took the opportunity to explain why he was supporting a candidate for the senate in Oregon that says in campaign literature she is pro-choice. He said that GOP Senate candidate Monica Wehby said she’s personally pro-life but doesn’t feel that the government has any business interfering with the relationship between the mother, the doctor and God.
Carson said he feels differently because if abolitionists had taken a similar hands-off approach, a black man like himself likely still wouldn’t be able to write his thoughts on or maintain a website.
Carson said that if America could just end abortion “all of the other things that God would be interested in helping us with would fall into alignment.”
While millions of American Christians are celebrating the Supreme Court’s decision protecting religious freedom, one prominent Baptist pastor is cautiously warning that the celebration of freedom may be short lived.
Pastor Robert Jeffress of First Baptist Church in Dallas says that while the Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling “stopped the greatest attempted assault on religious liberty in history”, the case is a sign that the government is going to increase attempts to strip away the religious freedom of Christians.
“The Obama administration was basically saying that you can be religious and pro-life in your church, synagogue or at home on the weekend, but when you go to work on Mondays, you have to give up those beliefs and become pro-abortion,” Jeffress said to the Christian Post. “There is no such thing in the Constitution as the separation of faith from the rest of your life.”
Jeffress said that the mainstream media and pro-abortion activists have been repeating the complete lie that those who want to protect the life of unborn children are nothing more than religious fringe extremists.
“It is a part of the belief system of tens of millions of Protestants, Catholics, Jewish people and people of all faiths,” he said. “This country was founded on Judeo-Christian principles. In this ruling, I think the court is very sound in saying that we have the right to uphold and exercise those beliefs.”