Planned Parenthood told Congress Monday that a secretly recorded video released last week by an anti-abortion group is fraudulent and part of a years-long pattern of illegal harassment aimed at prohibiting abortion.
In a letter to the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Planned Parenthood said it fell victim to a fake company called Biomax Procurement Services that posed as a buyer of human tissues. It was actually created by David Daleiden, an official of the group that released the video, and was engaged in “a campaign of corporate espionage” targeting Planned Parenthood, the letter said.
“A group of extremists who have intimidated women and doctors for years — in their agenda to ban abortion completely — are not ‘documenting’ misdeeds; they are trying to create them, quite unsuccessfully,” Planned Parenthood wrote to lawmakers.
In a show of defiance — at least for now — Planned Parenthood also told the House committee that it has not yet decided whether it will honor lawmakers’ request for a briefing by Dr. Deborah Nucatola, who speaks at length in the video about obtaining fetal tissue for research. Nucatola is the organization’s senior director of medical services.
Planned Parenthood’s letter represents its fullest response so far to that video, which was released last week by the Center for Medical Progress. (Read more from “Here’s Planned Parenthood’s Response to the Video of Them Selling Aborted Baby Parts” HERE)
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An elderly priest was assaulted with his own cane in the parking lot of an East Palo Alto church earlier this week by a suspected methamphetamine user.
Juan Perez, 41, approached 89-year-old priest John Coleman, who was walking with a metal cane in the parking lot of St. Francis De Assisi Church at 1425 Bay Road just before 10 p.m. Monday, according to the district attorney’s office.
Perez allegedly knocked the priest down, took his cane and beat him with it until it broke, prosecutors said. It appears he did not know the victim and there was no reason for the attack.
“I thought I was a goner. All of a sudden this man appeared right there, and very aggressive, yelling, he grabbed me,” Father Coleman said.
Bystander Jose de la Torre tried to stop the beating, but Perez allegedly hit him with the cane as well. He took off running and two brothers chased after him. (Read more from “89-Year-Old Priest Beaten in Front of East Palo Alto Church, Suspect Pleads Not Guilty” HERE)
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Famous food companies have been exposed using tissue from aborted babies to make flavor additives in processed foods.
Kraft, PepsiCo, Nestle, work with Semonyx, a California-based that uses aborted embryonic cells to test fake flavoring chemicals.
The aborted human fetal cell line is known as “HEK-293,” and it is used to see how the human palate will react to synthetic flavors. Since most of today’s processed food lacks flavor, companies like Semonyx are hired to develop flavors on their own.
“What they don’t tell the public is that they are using HEK 293 — human embryonic kidney cells taken from an electively aborted baby to produce those receptors,” said Debi Vinnedge of the pro-life group Children of God for Life. “They could have easily chosen animal, insect, or other morally obtained human cells expressing the G protein for taste receptors.” (Read more from “These Famous Food Companies Have Been Caught Using Aborted Babies for Flavor Additives” HERE)
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In the past, Republicans have lacked the resolve or desire to fight the Left on issues that are easy to communicate and resonate with the public. Currently the GOP-controlled Congress is silent in the face of violations of religious freedom. They are silent in the face of Obama’s unconstitutional executive amnesty and his release of thousands of criminal illegal aliens. Even the murder of Kate Steinle has not spurred any immediate action on sanctuary cities. In light of the Planned Parenthood video depicting trafficking of organs harvested from aborted babies will the GOP-controlled Congress finally stop taxpayer funds for Planned Parenthood?
In their 2011 Pledge to America, House GOP leadership promised the American people that the new GOP majority would end taxpayer funding for abortion [page 28]. Yet, around 30 separate opportunities have passed to defund Planned Parenthood in relevant budget bills and the GOP controlled House failed to deliver on their promise. Now that there is a GOP Senate, surely taxpayer funding for the organ traffickers at Planned Parenthood will end.
Congressional Republicans are upset about the sale of dismembered baby’s body parts, yet many of those same members had no problem voting for Continuing Resolutions, omnibuses, and other appropriation bills that fully fund the actual dismemberment.
Planned Parenthood has performed 6.8 million abortions since 1970, yet in 2013 45% of their budget ($540 million) came from taxpayers in the form of federal and state grants.
Americans are rightfully outraged over the recent video that surfaced this week revealing how Planned Parenthood harvests and traffics the organs of babies after they engage in gruesome killings. The fact that organs are trafficked after the abortion occurs undercuts pro-abortion proponents’ argument that these babies are a “mass of tissue.” How can mass tissue have organs? How can “something” not alive have organs? The House Judiciary Committee plans to conduct a hearing investigating the extent of this barbaric cartel of murder and illegal trafficking. However, what good is a hearing if the GOP ultimately funds Planned Parenthood in the upcoming budget bill? Spare the nation the pomp and bluster of a congressional hearing where members feign outrage in 30-second sound bites messaged for constituents.
Instead of a hearing, start by ceasing the flow of taxpayer funds to an organization that is incentivized to abort babies to then traffic their organs for profit. Is a congressional hearing really needed to tell us that the act of trafficking dismembered baby’s organs is wrong?
As for the Democrats, what happened to the mantra of “Safe, rare, and legal?” Where are the outraged Democrats? Where is Senator Blumenthal? Who prides himself on once being the top cop in Connecticut and in 2013 objected to the Senate passage of a resolution condemning serial killer Kermit Gosnell?
Sadly, this is yet one more vivid illustration that Democrats do not view abortion as a necessary evil but an ideal that must be defended at all costs. Will they stop at nothing in their defense of abortion?
Step back for a moment and ponder the degree of dyslexia of Democrat priorities and their barometer of morality:
Democrats pound the lecterns in the Senate chamber decrying against the waterboarding of the most horrific terrorists for the purpose of obtaining life-saving intelligence. Yet, they heartlessly ignore the cries of fully-formed babies as their organs are harvested by an organization that receives half its funding from taxpayers.
They shed crocodile tears over lethal injection capital punishment for mass murders but defend every last abortion via suctioning – even those that are coming out of the womb, and in some cases, even after the baby is born. They feign outrage over gas guzzlers for polluting the environment, yet continue to refuse to condemn cold-blooded killers like Kermit Gosnell, the abortion “doctor” who was convicted of killing infants alive and hiding their lifeless bodies in trash bins and jars on shelves.
In the end, to Democrats, it is all about the agenda. And if that means winking and nodding at a modern-day version of Moloch in order to advance that agenda, so be it.
But what about the GOP’s agenda? When will they take a stand? After controlling the purse strings in the House, they have funded Planned Parenthood around 30 times.
With a funding fight brewing for this September and the GOP now controlling both chambers of Congress, it should not be difficult to communicate to America: Democrats are trying to shut down the government in order to fund the trafficking of harvested organs from aborted babies.
Will Planned Parenthood be funded for the 31st time since the GOP recaptured the purse strings?
This September, everyone will find out. (“How Many Times Has GOP House Funded Planned Parenthood?”, originally posted HERE)
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A U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) study to understand why lesbians are fat has now cost taxpayers over $3.5 million to-date.
The study, “Sexual Orientation and Obesity: A Test of a Gendered Biopsychosocial Model,” seeks to determine why there is a disparity in the obesity rates between straight women and lesbian women and straight men and gay men.
According to the study, “It is now well-established that women of minority sexual orientation are disproportionately affected by the obesity epidemic, with nearly three-quarters of adult lesbians overweight or obese, compared to half of heterosexual women. In stark contrast, among men, heterosexual males have nearly double the risk of obesity compared to gay males.” (Read more from “Taxpayers Spend $3.5 Million to Find out Why Lesbians Are Fat” HERE)
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President Barack Obama said Wednesday that there is no precedent for revoking the U.S. Medal of Freedom — as some have called for him to do — given to comedian and actor Bill Cosby. But the President did outline his definition of rape.
“There’s no precedent for revoking a medal. We don’t have that mechanism,” he said.
The President then paused, and while he would not comment on the specifics of a case in which criminal or civil charges could be brought, he instead offered a definition of rape.
“If you give a woman — or a man, for that matter — without his or her knowledge a drug and then have sex with that person without consent, that’s rape,” Obama said Wednesday at a White House press conference.
Earlier this month, details of a 2005 lawsuit were revealed that showed that Cosby admitted to getting prescription Quaaludes to give to women he wanted to have sex with. (Read more from “Obama Defines Rape When Asked About Bill Cosby” HERE)
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The German Chancellor backed equal benefits for same-sex couples – such as tax breaks – and said that while discrimination should be “eliminated” she drew a “difference” between civil partnerships and marriage.
But the committed Christian, who has been married twice, gave her personal definition of marriage as ‘a man and a woman living together’, in a YouTube interview with Florian Mundt, a YouTube known under the alias LeFloid who has a significant online following.
“I’m someone who is very supportive of us eliminating all discrimination. We have come a long way; when I remember, 25 years ago, many people didn’t dare to say that they are gay or lesbian,” she said, according to the Huffington Post . . .
Ms Merkel went on to say stress that marriage should be strictly defined as between a man and a woman, adding: “I am for registered civil partnerships. I am for our not having any discrimination in tax legislation. And wherever we still find discrimination, we will continue to dismantle it,” according to German broadcaster Deutsche Welle.
Explaining further, the German leader said: “I don’t want discrimination and [I want] equality, but I make a difference at some point.” (Read more from “Angela Merkel Doesn’t Believe in Gay Marriage – ‘I Don’t Want Discrimination… But I Make a Difference at Some Point'” HERE)
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Patricia Heaton, who starred on the classic CBS series “Everybody Loves Raymond” and currently stars in ABC’s “The Middle,” used her social media savvy to blast Planned Parenthood — and the liberal media — after a video released Tuesday that shows a top executive with the organization engaging in the sale of aborted baby body parts.
The video showed Dr. Deborah Nucatola, Planned Parenthood Federation senior director of medical services, bragging about how she can abort babies with enough precision to be able to sell their body parts afterward.
For a union built on democracy, activist teachers are wondering how the American Federation of Teachers could have possibly endorsed Hillary Clinton for president without them knowing about it.
Candi Peterson, Washington (D.C.) Teachers’ Union, penned an article at Common Dreams in which several die-hard union activists appeared to be utterly befuddled by the national union’s sudden announcement.
Chicago activist Katie Osgood says, “I know many AFT members too and have not heard one person polled either.” The union claimed it polled members on their opinions.
According to the calculation of “Mr. Stevens,” only .04 percent of members were surveyed.
New York City teacher Arthur Goldstein tells the news site, “…AFT Link says they used telephone town halls and a web-based survey, I didn’t even know existed.” (Read more from “‘No Freaking Way!’ Teachers Revolt Over Union’s Endorsement of Hillary Clinton” HERE)
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Ever since Jaya Iyer’s daughter was a toddler, she had been fascinated by Saturn and its icy rings. When Swaha turned three, she had a space-themed birthday party. But when her mom went to find clothes with space images for Swaha, she couldn’t find any. They were all in the boys section.
So the 41-year-old mother of two, who has a doctorate in fashion merchandising, started her own business called Svaha (which is how her daughter’s name is pronounced) to sell clothes that upend gender stereotypes. One shirt features a grinning green stegosaurus, the plates on its back adorned with polka dots. A second comes in a blazing pink hue, with an astronaut planting an American flag on the moon. That one should satisfy her daughter. “She was very upset with me for not ever buying her anything with astronauts on it,” Iyer says. “Then she started telling me: ‘I want a ninja on my shirt.'”
Svaha is one of several startups that have emerged in recent years with the goal of changing the standards that govern what kids wear. These upstarts aren’t looking to replace current kid’s apparel entirely. Instead, their founders say they want to provide children with more options. Handsome in Pink says it’s all right for boys to wear pink and purple. BuddingSTEM offers science-themed garb for girls. Perhaps the buzziest label is Princess Awesome, which raised more than $200,000 in a successful Kickstarter campaign, showing demand for pirate-themed dresses and girl’s apparel covered in the symbol for pi. Most of the ventures remain in early stages as online-only entities using crowdfunded or bootstrapped cash to sell small numbers of shirts or dresses.
Several of the startups share a common origin: They were borne out of parental frustration with major retailers. Simply shopping in the opposite gender’s section isn’t the answer, these parents say. Cultural norms mean that as kids get older, designating certain items as male or female can confuse and frustrate them. A girl may not want to wear something designated for boys, and vice-versa.
“Most kids and parents are going to the big retailers and seeing all these messages of what its means to be a boy or a girl,” says Sharon Choksi, co-founder of clothing line Girls Will Be. Choksi’s daughter Maya, now 10, never liked sparkles or “feminine” colors, so the Choksis would shop for Maya in the boys’ section. As Maya got older, Choksi worried that “boy” and “girl” labels would unnecessarily upset her daughter. (Read more from “The End of Boys and Girls: These Companies Are Going to Change How Your Kids Dress” HERE)
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