South Dakota vs Planned Parenthood

The legislation that ended abortion in South Dakota-For exact wording and documentation. This is historic and must read!!!! See South Dakota makes US History: "the abortion will terminate the life of a...living human being". The only abortion clinic in the state closes. and South Dakota makes abortion free history on 07/21/2008 and then in November 2008 South Dakota and Colorado may make US History's firsts.

Temporary Stoppage of South Dakota Abortions Points to Abortion's Risks-"LifeNews.com Note: Amy Sobie is the editor of The Post-Abortion Review, a quarterly publication of the Elliot Institute. The organization is a widely respected leader in research and analysis of medical, mental health and other complications resulting from abortions....Planned Parenthood of South Dakota is refusing to do abortions. Why? Because a federal court has upheld a new law that would require them to disclose to women the risk factors of abortion. These are statistically proven risk factors that reliably identify which women are at highest risk of post-abortion psychological problems, including depression and suicidal behavior. That's not the way the story is being told in the national media, however. Following Planned Parenthood's shutdown, the mainstream media has adopted PP's spin on the story, focusing on how this “radical” law requires doctors to give women a written statement of the following: "that the abortion will terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique, living human being;" "that the pregnant woman has an existing relationship with that unborn human being and that the relationship enjoys protection under the United States Constitution and under the laws of South Dakota;" "that by having an abortion, her existing relationship and her existing constitutional rights with regards to that relationship will be terminated."...These are just a few of over 40 such statistically-validated risk factors that have been published in peer-reviewed medical journals. Yes, over 40 risk factors! Abortion clinics are in a bind. It's one thing for a woman to ignore three lines about the personhood of her unborn baby and a right to relationship with him or her when she already feels compelled to give up that relationship. It's another thing for her to ignore a list of more than 40 risk factors that indicate the potential devastating and life-long impact of undergoing a procedure that she probably doesn't want in the first place. Even the coercive mother who asks, “Where will you live?” may begin to think, “Should I expose my daughter to all of this?”...So consider these two facts: (1) Planned Parenthood of Missouri calls exposure to liability for pre-abortion screening for known risk factors a ban, and (2) Planned Parenthood of South Dakota closes its doors rather than accepting liability for informing women about statistically proven risk factors so they can do their own risk-benefit analyses. What does this tell us? In short, it tells us that Planned Parenthood would rather close its doors than face any liability for making even a minimal effort to avoid doing abortions that are unwanted, unsafe, or unnecessary. Perhaps it is because unwanted, unsafe, and unnecessary abortions provide the bulk of their business."- A must read and quite interesting. I read the first half and was in agreement but then I read the remainder of it and it does kind of make sense. Quite a point of view and good argument for it....

Planned Parenthood Web Site Offers Sex Ed Videos for Teens-"A new Web site launched by the Columbia/Willamette (Ore.) Planned Parenthood affiliate uses a series of video vignettes designed to “teach” teens about avoiding sexually transmitted diseases, but the videos include two boys purportedly engaging in oral sex, advice to two teens in bed about getting tested after having intercourse and instructions on how to use a condom."...The Web site features nine video vignettes with titles like “Hot & Heavy,” “Threesome,” “Bring Your Sister” and “Horse Penis Virus.” The “Down There Song” video features a long list of slang terms for female and male genitalia put to music."-See 3 great new movies Expelled (Ben Stein).. for more on Planned Parenthood's web sites and more.

Academic Freedom/Religious Freedom

University denies students funds for pro-life week-"Pro-life students at Wayne State University in Detroit are taking the school to court after being denied student activities funding. Students for Life at Wayne State wanted to host Pro-Life Week 2008...."So it simply only had one religious reference," the attorney explains. "It just had the word 'pray' in there. And the university denied funding for the entire event, all five events...simply because one of the days said that students might be allowed to pray as part of the event." Or, as the school's budget committee put it, "because of the spiritual and religious programming references...." Even after removing the reference to prayer, the group's funding request was still denied, this time because officials feared other students -- particularly women who had had an abortion -- might be offended by the pro-life message. "Student groups can't be discriminated against because of their beliefs. And that's what we have here...," says Martins. ADF says the bottom line is that the values of the pro-life student group conflict with the "politically correct philosophies embraced by the university." And that, says the legal group, is not sufficient legal basis for discrimination. Martins alleges that pro-abortion groups have already received funding from the student activities fund. That, he says, is de facto evidence that the university has set up an unconstitutional funding mechanism that practices viewpoint discrimination. On behalf of Students for Life, ADF filed suit against the school on Wednesday."

Bush vs Pro-Aborters

Abortion Advocates Continue Bashing Bush Administration Over Pro-Life Docs-"To hear NARAL president Nancy Keenan tell it, the Bush administration is preventing women from getting birth control, although the proposal does no such thing. "In its last months in office, the Bush administration is proposing new rules that could discourage doctors and health-care companies from providing birth control to women who need it," Keenan said Thursday in an email to her group's supporters. "The regulation blurs the distinction between abortion and birth control and could even threaten good state laws that protect women's access to contraception," she claims. Susan F. Wood, an abortion activist who resigned from the FDA over its delay in approving the Plan B morning after pill, also complained about the proposal in comments to the Washington Post. "They are manipulating the system by manipulating the definition of the word abortion," she contended. "It's another example of this administration's disregard for science and medicine in how agencies make decisions." However, the abortion definition is very clear -- saying that any drug or procedure that ends the life of an unborn child after the point of conception is an abortion. The proposed HHS rules define abortion as “any of the various procedures — including the prescription, dispensing and administration of any drug or the performance of any procedure or any other action — that results in the termination of the life of a human being in utero between conception and natural birth, whether before or after implantation.” Abortion advocates have a problem with the implantation wording because the morning after pill can cause an abortion in some instances of an unborn children between the points of fertilization and implantation. As a result, the drug is abortifacient in some circumstances and abortion activists would rather have the public believe Plan B is a non-abortion birth control pill that only works to prevent pregnancy not destroy a human life."

Pro-Abortion and Anti-Family Republicans only back east!!!

Pro-Abortion Republicans Organize, Fundraise in Maine-"The pro-abortion, anti-family Republican Leadership Council of Maine registered a political action committee with Maine's Ethics Commission in July. See a high-resolution image of the registration at www.cclmaine.org/PDF_Files/RLC-PACregistration.pdf. The RLC of Maine is led by current Maine State Senator Peter Mills (R-Skowhegan) and current State Representative Meredith Strang Burgess (R-Cumberland). Both are listed as co-chairs of the pro-abortion, anti-family group on the Maine Ethics Commission PAC Registration from July 14, 2008. Mills and Strang Burgess were two of only four Republican Maine legislators who co-sponsored a bill in 2007 that would have directly paid $283,000 for abortions in Maine. One of the remaining four pro-abortion Republican legislators is not running for re-election this year, and the other Maine GOP legislator passed away shortly after co-sponsoring the abortion funding bill. The bill itself was unanimously defeated in its legislative committee in May, 2007."

Massachusetts: Republican legislator praised for backing repeal of 1913 law-"The trio of candidates vying to replace state Rep. Paul Loscocco, R-Holliston, backed his choice to support gay marriage and repeal a 95-year-old law that blocked nonresidents from marrying here if those unions would be void in their home states."

UN

United Nations Committee Wants Britain to Legalize Abortion in Northern Ireland-"In advance of a debate in the British Parliament on whether or not to extend the 1967 legalizing abortion in Britain to Northern Ireland, a UN panel has weighed in. The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, which has pestered other nations to legalizing abortions, says move ahead. Abortion is illegal in Northern Ireland unless the life of the mother is in danger or the continuation of the pregnancy would cause the woman very serious health issues. The CEDAW committee repeated its earlier call for MPs to approve an amendment to the controversial Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill to force abortion on Northern Ireland. Members of parliament are slated to debate the bill, and an amendment promoting abortion from Labour MP Diane Abbott, sometime this Fall. Abbott says she's tired of women in Northern Ireland having to travel to England to get abortions and she thinks there is a "very good chance" MPs will approve the amendment. The British Parliament is expected to approve the bill, which allows hybrid human cloning and is expected to expand abortions in England, so pro-life advocates in Northern Ireland are pushing hard to prevent a vote on legalizing abortion there....Bernadette Smyth, the director of Precious Life, told LifeNews.com Wednesday that extending abortion to Northern Ireland would go "against the wishes of the vast majority of people in Northern Ireland." "In October 2007 a motion against abortion was passed that sent out a clear message to Westminster that the Northern Ireland Assembly opposes any attempt to liberalize the law on abortion," she said. "Over 120,000 petitions against abortion were also presented to the Assembly."