A Facebook page dedicated to attacking and slandering Christians featuring a picture of an aborted baby Jesus was been taken down after protests from pro-life groups.
The web page featured a photo of the Virgin Mary holding an aborted Jesus who was wearing a crown of thorns. The Virgin Mary was smoking a marijuana cigar looking as if she was very satisfied with aborting God’s son.
A spokesman for the group Catholics & Protestants Against Facebook Religious Discrimination said that this wasn’t a case of shutting down someone’s First Amendment rights but rather a case of hate speech.
“It’s one thing to say we’re atheists and we’re proud of it,” Cary Bogue said in a statement, “It’s another to say that [Jesus’s] mother should have aborted him.”
Facebook’s policies say they encourage discussion and permit parody on their site but do have a line when it comes to hate speech.
“While we encourage you to challenge ideas, institutions, events, and practices, we do not permit individuals or groups to attack others based on their race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, disability or medical condition,” Facebook’s Community Standards page states.
Louisiana has become the latest state to pass laws aimed at requiring abortion clinics to have safe conditions on the level of other major medical facilities.
One of those requirements is for abortionists to have admitting privileges at hospitals within 30 miles of the abortion clinic.
House Bill 388 reads: “On the date the abortion is performed or induced, a physician performing or inducing an abortion shall have active admitting privileges at a hospital that is located not further than thirty miles from the location at which the abortion is performed or induced and that provides obstetrical or gynecological health care services.”
The law passed the House of Representatives 88-5 after passing the Senate 34-3 earlier this month.
Governor Bobby Jindal said he’s looking forward to signing the bill.
The law reportedly will force three of the state’s five abortion clinics to close.
An abortion clinic in Dallas has closed after the abortionist was unable to secure admitting privileges at a nearby hospital.
The closure marks the 20th abortion clinic in the state to close since the passage of stronger legislation regarding the cleanliness and safety of abortion clinics. The law also increased the conditions for welfare of women who choose to end their child’s lives in those clinics.
The closed clinic was associated with abortionist Douglas Karpen, who has been accused of killing babies born alive during late-term abortions similar to convicted murder Kermit Gosnell in Pennsylvania.
A spokesman for Operation Rescue said that part of the problem for the clinics is that operators are considered liabilities for hospitals and that is why they’re having trouble obtaining privileges.
The next phase of the law goes into effect on September 1st that requires all abortion clinics to have the same safety and cleanliness standards as ambulatory surgical centers. The requirements include having equipment to properly sterilize equipment and ensuring the doors to the facility are wide enough to accommodate stretchers in the event of an emergency.
Representative Jason Villalba of Dallas said the law is a pro-woman law that aims to make sure any woman undergoing a surgical procedure is having it in a sanitary environment.
The president of the National Organization for Women is promoting abortion by saying that killing babies before their born can help reduce the “heartbreak of infant mortality.”
“From a public health point of view, abortion care, no less than contraception, is an essential measure to prevent the heartbreak of infant mortality, and to prevent another tragedy as well – maternal death,” Terry O’Neill wrote in a column for the Washington Post.
The pro-abortionist says that 30 infants in the United States die each day from some kind of natural cause and that America has the highest first-day infant mortality rate of any country in the industrialized world. O’Neill says because of those figures, it only makes sense to abort babies rather than have them born and risk them dying shortly after birth.
O’Neill said that any person who believes in allowing a child with a severe birth defect to be born cannot be truly “pro-life” because the child will eventually die young from the defect.
She also said that many of these children are born to teen mothers who do not have adequate access to pre-natal care and thus have an increased risk of a child dying right after birth.
The Missouri legislature has passed a law that will require any woman who is seeking an abortion to wait 72 hours after they initially contact a clinic.
The measure triples the current waiting period in the state and makes Missouri the third state behind Utah and South Dakota to require 72 hours. The waiting period would be waived in the event of a medical emergency.
The bill passed the Missouri House 111-39 and sent it to the governor who has a pattern of allowing abortion restrictions to become law without signing the bills. Last year, Nixon ignored a bill that requires doctors to be in the room when the initial dose of drugs for medical abortion is injected.
Nixon told reporters that he would review the waiting period and make a decision in line with his other decisions regarding abortion legislation.
Pro-abortion advocates were furious at the passage of the law saying that it could be medically dangerous to make a woman wait two more days before ending the life of their child via abortion.
A group of U.S. Senators joined with pro-life activists in calling for a new law that would prohibit abortions after the 20th week of gestation.
The rally called for passage of the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Senator Lindsey Graham were among the dignitaries that called on Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to bring the bill to the floor for debate and a vote.
“This legislation, which according to five major national polls is supported by the majority of Americans, would protect babies and women from the horrific violence of abortion beyond 20 weeks,” said Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List.
The 20-week abortion ban is in place in 13 states.
Pro-abortion groups like Planned Parenthood are vehemently against the bill even though they admit that 99% of the abortions in the U.S. happen before the 20th week. They are also angry the bill would jail doctors for 5 years if they perform abortions after the 20th week.
A new report from Fox News shows that billionaire Warren Buffett has given enough money to abortion organizations to pay for roughly 2.7 million first-trimester abortions.
The man called the “Oracle of Omaha” has given over $1.2 billion to pro-abortion groups from 2001 to 2012.
Dan Gainor of the Media Research Center says that it’s shocking the lack of attention which has been given to the massive amount of funding for abortion from Buffett. Gainor said that if the third richest man in the world paid to have 2.7 million people killed, it would be major world news. However, since it’s babies via abortion, the news is not reported in the mainstream media.
Buffett has reportedly given almost $290 million to Planned Parenhood. Buffett’s first wife Susan was a major abortion advocate and he funds a foundation in her name headed by a woman who called abortion “a moral action undertaken by moral agents.”
Gainor says that it’s not just the media identified as liberally-leaning that’s been contributing to the blackout concerning news surrounding Buffett’s massive abortion support. Gainor said that Lila Rose of the anti-abortion group Live Action and Project Veritas filmmaker James O’Keefe failed to mention Buffett’s support of Planned Parenthood in their sting videos showing the group setting up underage abortions.
Yahoo has followed the lead of Google in making sure women who are considering abortion do not see pro-life options in advertising.
Anti-life groups like NARAL Pro-Choice America filed complaints with Yahoo because ads for pro-life organizations and crisis pregnancy centers would appear when women were searching for abortion clinics. The anti-life groups want to make sure that women seeking an abortion find no other alternative to ending their baby’s life.
“We have found at least some of the ads to be out of compliance with our policies and we are taking them down,” a Yahoo spokesman told CNET. “We’re in the process of reviewing the other ads and will take similar action if any are found to not be in compliance with our policies.”
Anti-life advocates were overjoyed that the choice of giving babies the chance to live was being removed.
“We are pleased that Yahoo has confirmed that some of these deceptive crisis pregnancy center ads violate their advertising policies and stated that they will remove them so that women can continue to trust the search engine for accurate information,” NARAL president Ilyse Hogue said in a statement. “Women making this personal, medical decision should have comprehensive resources and accurate information. … We will work with Yahoo to pinpoint the ads that are masquerading as abortion clinics so they are promptly taken down when they appear.”
The movie telling the true story of convicted murderer abortionist Kermit Gosnell is reportedly within $122,000 of being fully funded.
The filmmakers have until Monday at midnight to obtain the rest of the funding through the crowdfunding site Indiegogo or all the donations will be returned.
“Dr. Kermit Gosnell is the most prolific serial killer in American History but almost no one knows who he is,” the filmmakers wrote on their funding site. “The mainstream media or Hollywood don’t think this is a story. Even though Gosnell killed more people than [notorious serial killers] Gary Ridgeway, John Wayne Gacy, the Zodiac Killer and Ted Bundy combined.”
Gosnell is serving life in prison after being convicted of killing three babies, involuntary manslaughter in the death of a patient who died from a botched abortion and running a pill mill from his clinics.
So far, over 20,000 people have given to have the film produced and distributed to allow people to see the truth of the abortion industry.
The rates of teen pregnancy and abortion have declined dramatically in the United States.
A new report from the Guttmacher Institute shows that in 2010, the number of teen pregnancies totaled 614,000, a 51% decline from the 1990 peak. It’s also a 15% decline over the last two years.
The teen abortion rate has declined 66% from its peak in 1988, from 43.5 abortions per 1,000 to 14.7 per 1,000.
“The decline in the teen pregnancy rate is great news,” says lead author Kathryn Kost. “Other reports had already demonstrated sustained declines in births among teens in the past few years; but now we know that this is due to the fact that fewer teens are becoming pregnant in the first place.”
The report also showed that the decline was across all racial and economic groups. However, the rates for black and Hispanic teens were double the rates for all other racial demographics.