Emily Letts, a 25-year-old abortion counselor, filmed her own abortion as a promotional tool to show how wonderful it is to kill your baby via abortion.
The video does not show the lower part of Letts’ body nor the actual abortion process, so viewers can’t actually see the life of her child being ended by an abortionist. The video was also part of a essay for Cosmopolitan magazine.
At the end of the procedure, Letts tells the camera how good she feels from the abortion.
Letts also told the website ThinkProgress a month after her abortion that she doesn’t feel bad about it and that “I don’t feel sad. I knew that what I was going to do was right.”
The pro-abortion ThinkProgress site tries to take Letts video and use it to call for other women to say how great abortion is in an attempt to counter those who are trying to protect the sanctity of human life.
Boxing champion Floyd Mayweather, Jr. is facing a heavy backlash on social media after taking a strong anti-abortion stand.
Mayweather, who unified the WBA and WBC Welterweight titles in a controversial win Saturday night, revealed during the week that he had broken up with his fiancée after she secretly had an abortion.
“I’m totally against killing babies,” Mayweather said on Twitter as he posted a sonogram photo of what he said was the twins. “She killed our twin babies.”
Floyd was immediately attacked by pro-abortionists on Twitter and Facebook saying that he had no right to demand his now ex-fiancee have the babies and that he had no right to say abortion is killing a baby. Many slammed him for making a public statement about something they felt was only his ex’s business.
Some even called for him to be stripped of his title before the fight and to no longer be allowed to professionally fight because of his anti-abortion stance.
In a society where Christians are receiving increasing amount of condemnation for publicly standing on their faith, one church is providing compelling evidence for the power of witnessing outside of abortion clinics.
Pastor Jeff Durbin and his witnessing team from Apologia Church in Tempe, Arizona, shared a story at the opening of the 2014 Ignite Conference talking about a couple that they had approached heading into an abortion clinic. They didn’t yell at the couple but rather calmly presented the gospel and spoke about the value that God places on all lives, including that of the couple’s unborn child.
At the conclusion of the story, a young woman walked on stage with a baby.
It was Tina, the woman who ended up walking away from the abortionist’s table and giving life to the child she was holding in her arms.
“We’re very, very grateful for them saving our baby’s life and opening our eyes,” Tina said. “They’ve really helped us so much and changed our point of view. If it wasn’t for them I wouldn’t have my baby.”
Pastor Durbin said Tina and her son were living testimony of the importance of bringing the Gospel into hard places and not being concerned about what the world thinks about it.
“I have an irrefutable argument about bringing the Gospel to hard places despite all the conflict,” Pastor Durbin said, pointing to Tina as she left the stage.
Georgia Governor Nathan Deal has signed a law that prohibits any health plan being sold in the state from including abortion coverage.
The law includes any policy that is sold through the federal health care exchange website.
“No abortion coverage shall be provided by a qualified health plan offered within the State of Georgia through a state law, federal law or regulation or exchange created by the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,” the bill reads. The move will bar any taxpayer dollars from funding abortions because of a subsidized health care policy.
“Given the fact that the majority of Americans do not want to pay for abortions, it’s vital to restrain the influence of the abortion industry that has been enriched by taxpayer funds,” Dr. Charmaine Yoest of American United for Life said.
Many states have passed laws requiring people to purchase a special rider for health care plans if they wish to have abortion included under their health insurance.
A group of filmmakers attempting to raise $2.1 million on the crowdfunding site Indiegogo for a movie about abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell say they are about $700,000 short with 16 days to go in the campaign.
The original fundraising was planned for the more well-known Kickstarter site until it was removed because Kickstarter objected to the anti-abortion content of the film.
The filmmakers say it’s important to get the film made because Hollywood is doing all it can to ignore the truth of situations like the House of Horrors in West Philadelphia where convicted murderer Gosnell killed thousands of babies.
“Thousands of people died in Philadelphia,” filmmaker Ann McElhinney told the Christian Post. “Those people were born alive and were viable; and they struggled for life and died a painful death, and they shouldn’t be forgotten.”
The filmmakers say that they’ve spoken to thousands of people about the film and they have no idea who Gosnell is because the major media outlets provided very little coverage of his murder trial.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit is about to decide if Mississippi will be the first state in the nation that will not have an abortion provider.
The court is considering a 2012 law that would require all abortion clinics that kill more than 10 babies per year via abortion to have physicians that are certified in obstetrics and gynecology and have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital.
The law was passed in April 2012 but pro-abortionists have been challenging the law in courts since passages. They were able to get a federal judge to issue a preliminary injunction in 2013 saying it was likely unconstitutional because it would close the state’s only clinic.
Governor Phil Bryant said his intent to sign the law was to “make Mississippi abortion free.”
The 5th Circuit is the same court that upheld a Texas law with the same restrictions as the Mississippi law. That law closes all but six clinics in Texas.
The pro-abortionists say they will “fight to the end” to make sure women can kill their babies in Mississippi via abortion.
A researcher with the Family Research Council says that euthanasia is going to be an issue that the pro-life movement in the United States needs to be prepared to fight.
Arina Grossu of the FRC’s Center for Human Diginity told the Christian Post that euthanasia both at home and around the world is something that is a matter of life and that it should get more attention.
“In the pro-life movement, we’re for all human life from conception to natural death. And so we need to cover that, and especially because I think it is an up-and-coming fight for us,” Grossu said. “I think that as more cases come out where parents are trying to kill their children, or the elderly or the disabled, and we see the shortage in federal funds for healthcare, we are going to see the effect of this. And we’re going to step in. But I am hoping that people will take a proactive stance instead of a defensive stance on the issue.”
Grossu noted that in Oregon, their report for assisted suicides each year cannot guarantee that all of the assisted suicide deaths were voluntary.
She also noted that around the world, euthanasia is increasing. In February, Belgium passed a law that allows the assisted suicides of terminally ill children.
Mississippi is the latest state to put a restriction on abortions after the 20th week of pregnancy.
The bill is connected to a medical research study showing that a baby definitively feels pain at the 20th week of gestation, halfway through the length of a full-term pregnancy. The Mississippi law refers specifically to that research as the basis for the bill.
The law provides an exemption after 20 weeks if the woman’s life is in danger or if the baby has significant deformities that it would not survive outside the womb at full term.
“Today is an important day for protecting the unborn and the health and safety of women in Mississippi,” Governor Phil Bryant said in a statement.
Other states passing similar laws are Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Oklahoma and Texas.
Pro-abortionist were critical of the bill saying it did not provide enough exemptions for women such as in the case of incest.
A British woman who openly told a newspaper that she exercised her “right” to have an abortion to end her baby’s life so she could be on the television show “Big Brother” is now being attacked on social media for her decision.
Josie Cunningham, 23, told London’s Sunday Mirror that she’s finally on the road to becoming famous and that she wasn’t going to ruin it by having a baby.
“An abortion will further my career. This time next year I won’t have a baby. Instead, I’ll be famous, driving a bright pink Range Rover and buying a big house. Nothing will get in my way,” Cunningham said.
Now, many pro-abortion advocates are attacking the woman for exercising the “right” they repeatedly say is perfectly fine for any woman to “choose”. Pro-abortion advocates are posting online that Cunningham should be banned from the show because of her choice, that she is a “new low for humanity” and some have even advocated for her to be sterilized.
A pro-abortion advocate in the Guardian newspaper wrote a piece defending the woman’s decision, however, saying that anyone who supports abortion but doesn’t support this woman is opening the door to stopping other women from having abortions.
“What makes the “debate” around Josie Cunningham so disturbing is that it refuses to even acknowledge the idea that access to abortion is a basic human right, or that women are entitled to choose what they do with their own bodies,” Martin Robbins wrote. “If we fail to defend Cunningham, then we accept that only those women who are ‘deserving’ enough should be allowed to have an abortion. And if we accept that, then it’s only a matter of time before others are deemed undeserving as well.”
Pro-life advocates are pointing out that this situation is simply the logical progression of those who claim ending a baby’s life via abortion is a “human right.” They point out that under the vocalized morality of those who support abortion, Cunningham has done absolutely nothing wrong or deserving of scorn.
A group of Colorado legislators are attempting to pass a bill that would stop the state from being able to pass laws adding any restrictions to abortion.
The bill, called the “Reproduction Health Freedom Act”, would prohibit state and local governments from interfering with “reproductive health care” meaning that the state could not put restrictions on abortion among other things related to human sexuality.
The only exception to the law would be a bill proposed that has “current evidence-based scientific data and medical consensus.”
The bill, which was created and is being pushed heavily by Democratic members of the House and Senate, is being called an attempt to shut down anyone who opposes abortion from having their voice heard in the Colorado political process.
The bill’s sweeping attempts to silence abortion opponents has stirred the Catholic Church in Colorado to mobilize their members to call members of the House and Senate to tell them to vote against the bill.