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McConnell Plans to Fund Planned Parenthood

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Mitch McConnellMajority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) spent tens of millions of dollars on his reelection bid last year promising voters all the magnanimous things he’d do to stop Obama’s radical agenda were he crowned Majority Leader of the Senate. After less than a year in office McConnell has resigned his position and has bestowed the privilege of majority leader on the Democrat leader indefinitely.

Speaking to a local reporter in Hazard, Kentucky, McConnell has, once again, reiterated his intent to pass a budget bill continuing to fund Planned Parenthood because the Democrats told him so:

“We just don’t have the votes to get the outcome that we’d like,” McConnell said. “I would remind all of your viewers: The way you make a law in this country, the Congress has to pass it and the president has to sign it. The president has made it very clear he’s not going to sign any bill that includes defunding of Planned Parenthood, so that’s another issue that awaits a new president hopefully with a different point of view about Planned Parenthood.”


Let me remind all of our viewers that there is a legislative process and there is a budget process. With regards to the legislative process, both houses of Congress must pass a new statute in order to change the law, and the president must agree to sign the bill. Accordingly, McConnell is correct in asserting that without control of all branches of government, Republicans are unable to pass new laws. But the budget process works just the opposite. So long as just one body of Congress is controlled by Republicans and they refuse to fund a certain aspect of government, that function is not funded. It takes just one body of government to wield the power of the purse; it takes all three branches to fund government.

But won’t the federal government shutdown when the Democrats balk at a funding bill that excludes their sacred funding for #PlannedButcherhood?

Freeze frame at this point. It is this question and this political dynamic that proves, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the current Republican Party does not share our values. We are not asking for a funding fight over something like Social Security, the minimum wage, or labor laws. We are asking that, in chronicling the barbaric harvesting and selling of organs from babies, taxpayer funding not be sent to these groups. If Republicans are incapable of messaging this to the American people and confidently declaring without a shred of diffidence in their voices that Democrats will rue the day for shutting down the government in order to fund torture of babies, they should just shut the lights in their stuffy offices and resign.

Here’s the dirty little secret Mitch McConnell refuses to divulge. He is accepting the premise that Democrats win every showdown – no matter the issue or the circumstances. Under his premise and his system of governance, it will make absolutely no difference if Republicans win back the White House in 2016. Well, let’s take a trip into the future and picture this scenario unfolding in 2017. Republicans win the White House and maintain control of Congress, albeit with a slim majority in the Senate. Democrats will filibuster every single minor legislative vehicle, much less something as important to them as funding for abortions. What will McConnell do come budget time? They simply won’t have the votes to even get the bill to the president’s desk.

What’s worse, the public is more likely to blame Republicans for a shutdown when they officially control all levers of government. Wait for McConnell’s lame excuses: “just wait until 2019 and let us win a super-majority in the Senate.” And you know what? Even if that happens, there will always be a number of Republicans who will join with the Democrats in opposing any bold reforms.

Without real leadership and without leaders who share our values, every noble idea will be stymied by insurmountable odds. The excuses never end.

Earlier this summer, Mark Levin publicly called for McConnell to resign. It’s time for all conservatives to follow suit. It’s time for the GOP presidential candidates to be asked if this is the leader they want in the Senate as quarterback for their legislative and budgetary initiatives. Perhaps, the answer to that question will reveal more about them than any of their statements on policy issues. (For more from the author of “McConnell Plans to Fund Planned Parenthood” please click HERE)

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Here’s the Amount of Money Taxpayer-Funded Planned Parenthood Spent Defending Sales of Aborted Babies [+video]

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ppbodyBy Steven Ertelt. A new report indicates the Planned Parenthood abortion business has spent $517,000 defending itself as a series of undercover investigative videos have exposed its practice of selling aborted babies and their body parts for research after killing the babies in abortions. Planned Parenthood currently receives $550 million in taxpayer funds annually despite the fact that it is the nation’s leading abortion business — killing over 330,000 babies in abortions every year.

The House of Representatives is planning a vote on legislation that would de-fund the Planned Parenthood abortion business, which has been caught selling aborted babies and their body parts. The vote would follow one the Senate had weeks ago, which saw Senate Democrats filibuster and block legislation to revoke $550 million in taxpayer funding.

The Washington Post has more on how Planned Parenthood is defending itself:

Planned Parenthood is using virtually every tool in its lobbying arsenal to defend against attacks from conservatives and anti-abortion activists.

Planned Parenthood’s counter-offensive is widespread and varied and is unfolding inside and outside the Beltway. The group has been organizing rallies, flooding lawmakers’ town hall meetings, commissioning polls, shelling out six figures for television ads and hiring forensics experts to try to discredit undercover video footage that sparked the controversy.

(Read more from “Here’s the Amount of Money Taxpayer-Funded Planned Parenthood Spent Defending Sales of Aborted Babies” HERE)

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New Video: Planned Parenthood Doctor Caught Admitting She Can Hide Profit From Selling Aborted Babies

By Steven Ertelt. The Center for Medical Progress released a supplemental video today that sheds more light on the profit Planned Parenthood makes associated with the ale of aborted babies and their body parts.

Earlier this month, the pro-life organization released a video catching a Planned Parenthood official discussing how the abortion business sells “fully intact” aborted babies. The video provides evidence showing the Planned Parenthood abortion business may be selling the “fully intact” bodies of unborn babies purposefully born alive and left to die.

Today’s 28-minute supplemental video provides additional proof of that and also shows how Planned Parenthood is making and hiding profits from the sales in an attempt to get around federal law banning the practice.

In the video Director of Research for Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, Melissa Farrell, admits how the Houston Planned Parenthood abortion clinic is a high volume abortion facility that provides a large number of abortions in the second trimester of pregnancy. She admits the abortion center provides a high volume of fetal remains to biologic companies and discusses how abortion practitioners at this facility are able and willing to alter abortion procedures in order to ensure intact remains that can then be sold to biologic companies.

Farrell also admits that abortion practitioners at this facility actually conduct their own experimentation on human fetal remains obtained during abortions. She said price for the fetal remains are broken down by Planned Parenthood into “line items” and “baked” into contracts involving the sale of fetal remains. (Read more from this story HERE)

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LEAKED: BuzzFeed Tries to Defend Planned Parenthood and They’re Caught in Blatant Lies…

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ppIf you get your news exclusively from BuzzFeed, then today is the first day you’ve even heard of the Center for Medical Progresses’s Planned Parenthood sting videos. Why? Because Planned Parenthood hired someone to try and prove the sting videos were faked in an attempt to discredit CMP. And that’s what BuzzFeed reported:

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First of all, are you sh***ing me?

Secondly, this is pure evil. BuzzFeed has taken sides and is actively defending an organization which butchers babies and sells their parts. And then they’re pretending to be a news organization.

The byline of this “article:”

A new analysis of hidden-camera videos shows deceptive editing was used to portray a Planned Parenthood official discussing fetal tissue procurement. Tapes were spliced to mislead viewers at least 42 times in five tapes, the analysis says.

Really? What, did BuzzFeed finally do their due diligence and take a look at the FULL VIDEOS THAT HAVE BEEN PUBLIC FOR EVERYONE TO SEE with every quote in context? Nope. And yet even in the full videos, Planned Parenthood is butchering children and selling their parts. So…

Thirdly, Planned Parenthood PAID the company to “FIND” the “misleading” edits. That’s like Budweiser funding a group to find that alcoholism is no big deal. Or Starbucks paying a group to find that caffeine is the new cure to cancer (I maintain that it is). Those of us with what is commonly referred to as a “brain” call this a “conflict of interest.”

Hidden-camera videos depicting abortion doctors discussing the use of fetal organs for research were deceptively edited to mislead viewers, a Planned Parenthood-sponsored analysis revealed on Thursday. The reproductive health organization called the tapes a “fraud.”

From the Planned Parenthood-funded report:

While these analysts found no evidence that CMP inserted dialogue not spoken by Planned Parenthood staff, their review did conclude that CMP edited content out of the alleged “full footage” videos, and heavily edited the short videos so as to misrepresent statements made by Planned Parenthood representatives.

CMP released this statement in response to Planned Parenthood:

Planned Parenthood’s desperate, 11th-hour attempt to pay their hand-picked “experts” to distract from the crimes documented on video is a complete failure. The absence of bathroom breaks and waiting periods between meetings does not change the hours of dialogue with top-level Planned Parenthood executives eager to manipulate abortion procedures to get high-quality baby parts for financially profitable sale. While even Planned Parenthood’s “experts” found “no evidence of audio manipulation” in the recordings, it is telling that Planned Parenthood is trying so hard to pretend that their staff did not refer to a dismembered fetus as “a baby” and “another boy.” Planned Parenthood’s abortion providers are far more honest about the brutal reality of their work than the paid political consultants at the national office. If Planned Parenthood really wants to disprove the now-overwhelming body of evidence that their affiliates traffick in baby body parts, they should release their fetal tissue contracts with the for-profit company StemExpress for law enforcement, Congress, and all the world to see.

So what’s really going on here? A giant cover up. BuzzFeed is attempting to cover up abortion. BuzzFeed is trying to defend Planned Parenthood by attacking the Center for Medical Progress. BuzzFeed knows their audience is largely uneducated on current politics, and that if it doesn’t exist on the BuzzFeed homepage, it may as well not exist at all.

So rather than cover the story accurately, or at all (they’ve never posted on the videos as they were released), they decide to try and discredit the entire thing with a “SELECTIVELY EDITED” headline. It’s a glaring bias that often occurs by omission.

As a matter of fact, I have some direct experience with BuzzFeed. When I was working as a freelance writer, I was put in touch with “BuzzFeed Ben” (Ben Smith) to pitch a column. Ben Howe was the one who facilitated the introduction. He heads up their Politics division. He was actually very polite, but the response ended with this:

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Don’t. Do. Opinion Columns.

Of course, they have the right to refuse any pitch, and that’s not what this is about. Do me a favor. Go check out BuzzFeed.com and tell me if that’s what you see. Tell me if you see hard-hitting journalism, straight down the middle news, unbiased reporting or hell… even strong, original content.

Or maybe, tell me if you see nothing more than opinion commentary, thinly veiled as borderline plagiaristic “aggregation.”

Of course BuzzFeed does opinion. They only do opinion. The issue here is: they only do FAR-LEFT opinion. They lie to their constituency. The worst part is that their audience will never know. The bias occurs not only when BuzzFeed flat-out lies (as they have today) but by all of the stories they choose not to cover. In this case, all of those innocent babies lives that they opted not to acknowledge, to brush under the rug. But you know…. they don’t “do opinion.”

Evil bastards. (Re-posted with permission, “LEAKED: BuzzFeed Tries to Defend Planned Parenthood and They’re Caught in Blatant Lies…” originally appeared HERE)

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Planned Parenthood and the Gift of Death

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Adam-and-Eve-Banished-from-Garden-of-Eden_compressed_croppedYesterday I was privileged to attend a summit of the Watchmen, a national group of civic-minded pastors organized by that warrior for truth Tony Perkins. Then this morning I turned on my computer to find a fresh glimpse into hell — in the form of a new video exposing the sale of baby human organs for profit in America. So I faced both options from Moses’ offer to the Hebrews: “I set before you this day a blessing and a curse.” (Deut. 11:26)

As Al Perrotta laid out in his news report on the Watchmen meeting, there were many powerful voices proclaiming the urgency of the hour. One speaker after another rose to warn the assembled church leaders of just how thin the margin now is for religious freedom in America, to point out how cruel our nation is becoming, with the crass trade in human organs from aborted children now common knowlege — and shrugged off by our president and the whole Democratic party. The Watchmen spoke of faith grown lukewarm, of pastors now weary of swimming against the culture, who shrug and fall silent as their flocks wander off to the slaughter. Others spoke of the hope for revival, of the power of God to answer our prayers with a Great Awakening that could wash over America, smashing its structures of sin into damp piles of splinters.

But for some reason one speaker touched me more than the others, a messenger from the distant Christian past — indeed from our pre-history, from the covenant with Israel. Rabbi Jonathan Cahn addressed the Watchmen via recorded video message. Perhaps his speech had extra force because of his own people’s history, which was so intertwined with promises from God that were conditioned on its faithfulness — promises which, when flouted, transformed themselves into ferocious temporal punishments. Just as America has seemed in so many ways, for two long centuries, uniquely blessed, it’s impossible not to wonder what will become of us should those blessings be withdrawn. We have seen some ominous hints.

As Rabbi Cahn explained, we have allowed ourselves to drift far from the truths that the West once knew about human nature, truths that we learned from the Jews. Indeed, we have embarked on a strange and perilous project: to transform ourselves into entirely new creatures, not bound by the rules of mortal, biological life or by the God who created us. We have no gender but what we choose, no morals but those we embrace, no debt that we owe to the future in repayment for all the gifts we got from the past. Our “choices” are sacrosanct and beyond any criticism. But life is cheap. It can be measured out in tiny livers and severed limbs, and sold piecemeal by Planned Parenthood to labs such as StemExpress.

The Sin of Adam

We have in our own way re-enacted the sin of Adam, whose desire to “be like God” cast away the blessings that came with creation. We often forget the second part of that story, a section which always puzzled me until I read the way C.S. Lewis explained it. Remember that there were two trees in Eden: The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, and beside it the Tree of Life. Once Adam and Eve had sinned, they were expelled from the Garden immediately, lest they eat of the Tree of Life.

What would have happened if they had managed to munch on those golden apples? As Lewis writes, when God prevented that, He was protecting us from ourselves. Unlike the demons, we die. We have what Tolkien called in The Lord of the Rings the “gift” of death. We have at least that limit to the evil that we can do, and a merciful, ugly reminder of our limitations and neediness. A race of fallen men become immortal would be a generation of monsters, growing not older or wiser, but simply more sophisticated and wicked. And that seems to be our goal now, as one nation after another gives up on having children, while scientists work furiously in search of immortality formulas. Our collective goal seems to be clear: A world full of ageless, sterile consumers who only mix their chromosomes when they need a fresh batch of baby organs for transplant.

It is natural for us to try to mitigate the sufferings in this life, and to fight off disease and death. Unlike the animals, we feel somewhere deep within that we were not made for the grave. We are not like salmon who spawn, then instantly lie down and die. Instead, we cling to life, and to hope for eternal life — and see in our children not copies of ourselves, or extensions of our egos, but fresh new creations, each of them just like us in one essential way: They too are made for eternity. We are sad that we cannot remain in this place, so we mourn for ourselves, even as we celebrate the growth and life of those whom we have brought up to replace us. That is why we cry at weddings.

This truth came home forcefully on the day that I sat, in the hospital where I was born, to watch my father die. He looked at me, then looked up, then looked no more. As I worked through my grief, and wandered my neighborhood bleary-eyed, I saw a young mother pushing a carriage that held a squirming, giggling infant. And the thought was given to me: No death, no babies. Men like my father (and someday, like me) must step aside to make room for the new folks, as others had made room for us. And God seeks to gather us all to Himself, each at our own proper moment.

At least, this is how things are meant to work, when we are humble enough to accept our place in creation, and treasure some hope for redemption.

What happens when we push ourselves out of place, when we throw back in our ancestors’ teeth all the lessons they passed on to us, including the truths of natural reason, and the flashes of divine insight that we used to call Revelation?

We become unhinged. Our halves cease to function in harmony. We cannot make sense of our compound nature as amalgams of body and spirit. Our desires grow ever more limitless and disconnected from our needs, while the bodies that contain us begin to feel like prisons, battered dinghies that gradually take on water, which someday will sink us to drown in bottomless darkness. We feel more than ever the urge to be as gods, but reject the knowledge that tells us we are anything more than animals — brainy beasts made to breed, then die, with no hope of eternity. That enrages us. It mocks us. It’s the skull poking out through the skin. So we look for scapegoats, for victims.

Who better than the little ones who are shoving forth to replace us? Sure, we might accept one or two, if they happen to come exactly when we want them, and match our specifications. But those who arrive unexpectedly, or whose genes prove them “inferior,” will find no welcome here. Some 54 million so far have we mowed down. We have forgotten that we are guests on this earth, whom others have suffered to raise from birth, sojourners en route to someplace utterly different. Instead we act like squatters, who have seized a home from its owner and claimed it as our own.

The rage of the pro-choice protester is nothing more than this: the ferocity of a thief defending his pile of stolen goods. It’s the terrified fury that Macbeth felt as he guarded his stolen crown.

And our Lady Macbeth, Planned Parenthood, counts her jewels with bloody hands. (Re-posted with permission, “Planned Parenthood and the Gift of Death” originally appeared HERE)

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Pro-Life Groups Demand Portrait Gallery Remove Planned Parenthood Founder Bust

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margaret sangerAnti-abortion activists held a rally Thursday outside the National Portrait Gallery to demand the Washington museum remove a bust of Margaret Sanger, a controversial eugenicist who founded the organizations that later became Planned Parenthood.

The modern-day abortion provider has come under scrutiny following the release of undercover videos that allegedly show employees brokering the sale of fetal tissue. Days after widespread protests against the group, E.W. Jackson, a conservative Christian minister and Virginia lawyer, led the rally in Washington urging the removal of the Sanger bust.

“You must remove the bust!” Jackson said at the rally in front of the Smithsonian museum. He later added, “If Margaret Sanger had her way, MLK and Rosa Parks would never have been born.”

The event also was organized by conservative group ForAmerica and a group of black pastors . . .

GOP 2016 presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has publicly supported the movement to remove Sanger’s bust from the gallery. Cruz along with Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, circulated a letter to lawmakers calling the sculpture’s display “an affront broth to basic human decency and the very meaning of justice.” (Read more from “Pro-Life Groups Demand Portrait Gallery Remove Planned Parenthood Founder Bust” HERE)

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Obama Punishing This State for De-Funding Planned Parenthood by Cutting off Its Medicaid Funding

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barackobama33The Obama administration has punished the state of Kansas for cutting taxpayer funds for the Planned Parenthood abortion business by cutting its federal Medicaid funding by the same amount. The moves comes at the same time the abortion giant is facing intense criticism over its sales of aborted babies and their body parts.

In 2011, pro-life Governor Sam Brownback signed a bill signed into law a bill that would shift funding away from the Planned Parenthood abortion business and stops abortion funding in health insurance programs. The Kansas Senate passed the measure on a 28-10 vote and the state House followed suit with an 86-30 vote.

The measure has the state budget directing over $300,000 in Title 10 money to local full-service health clinics instead of Planed Parenthood and it places $300,000 into the Stan Clark grant-matched fund for pregnancy support and adoption counseling.

The funding cuts eventually resulted in the Planned Parenthood abortion business closing one of its centers.

Now, the Obama administration, in the wake of additional states cutting Planned Parenthood funding following the massive scandal, is going after one state that already cut tax-funding to the abortion company. According to an AP report: “The federal government reduced its Title X funding to the state by about the $370,000 annually in Title X money that two Planned Parenthood facilities in Wichita and Hays and an unaffiliated clinic in Dodge City had been receiving.” (Read more from “Obama Punishing This State for De-Funding Planned Parenthood by Cutting off Its Medicaid Funding” HERE)

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Woman: Planned Parenthood Said I Had to Donate This, or I Couldn’t Get the Abortion

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6905464604_c4a082dbf9_bBy Kasey Jackson. It has been a public mantra of Planned Parenthood since the Clinton administration – this idea that abortion should be safe, and legal, but also, as rare as possible. With induced abortion being the most invasive and painful medical procedure available to prevent and/or end an unintended pregnancy, even those that passionately identify as pro-choice agree that preventing an unintended pregnancy is preferred over the need to terminate one. Both pro-life activists and Planned Parenthood affiliates alike publicly celebrate and take credit for the fact that abortion numbers across the United States are at the lowest point since 1973 . . .

I recently had the opportunity to speak with a post-abortive woman by the name of Nancy Tanner who shared her story with the Silent No More Awareness Campaign about her experience at a Washington D.C. Planned Parenthood clinic where she had her abortion:

“I was second-guessing my decision to have the abortion,” Nancy says. “And as I was filling out the paperwork, I saw a permission slip that dealt with the disposal of the ‘products of conception.'”

After reading the permission slip, Nancy realized that the form gave Planned Parenthood permission to donate her fetus for scientific research, and she didn’t feel comfortable signing the form. She says that the nurse must have sensed her uneasiness about signing it, because she recalled that the nurse “asked me if I was an organ donor, and I told her that I was.” Nancy said, “she told me that this (the fetal tissue donation) was of a similar value” . . .

I said I didn’t want to sign it (the fetal tissue donation consent form) and they said I had to or I couldn’t have the abortion. I didn’t want my baby to be used for scientific research and I was told, “Don’t worry, it’s not a baby.” I told her I had two daughters already and I knew what a baby was. She said, “We don’t think its a baby.”

(Read more from “Woman: Planned Parenthood Said I Had to Donate This, or I Couldn’t Get the Abortion” HERE)

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Boehner Aide, Sister of CEO Who Discussed Shipping ‘Intact’ Aborted Baby Parts, Resigns to Join Lobbying Firm

By Michael W. Chapman. Charlotte Ivancic — the older sister of Cate Dyer who runs the biotech company StemExpress, and who discussed and laughed about shipping “intact” aborted baby parts in an undercover video released on Friday – is leaving her position as the health policy adviser to House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) to go to work for the lobbying firm Tarplin, Downs & Young.

The resignation of Ivancic–who worked for Boehner and as legal counsel to the House Budget Committee–was announced on August 5, as reported in The Hill.

In late July, StemExpress and its founder and CEO, Cate Dyer, were mentioned in undercover videos of Planned Parenthood’s harvesting of aborted baby parts by the Center for Medical Progress, a pro-life organization.

StemExpress obtained a temporary restraining order on July 28 against the release of any further investigative videos, but that order was lifted on Aug. 21 by Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Joanne O’Donnell.

After the restraining order was lifted, the Center for Medical Progress released a new video (on Aug. 21) that includes footage of a luncheon meeting with StemExpress’ Cate Dyer and the investigators who discuss how the procurement, supply, and shipping of aborted baby parts and their tissue operates. (Read more from this story HERE)

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Nationwide Campaign to Shutdown Planned Parenthood Launches Today

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Pro-life-prayer-1160x480On Aug. 22, pro-lifers in Alaska will join thousands around the nation in praying and fasting to end abortion and shut down Planned Parenthood.

The gathering is part of a nation-wide effort, Aug. 22-29, to pray and protest outside Planned Parenthood clinics following the release of undercover videos showing the abortion giant harvesting body parts of aborted babies and then haggling over the value of each part with prospective buyers.

In Anchorage pro-life advocates will gather outside the Planned Parenthood clinic at 4001 East Lake Otis Parkway from 9-11 a.m.

In an email to pro-life advocates local organizer Jane McCoy urged Alaskans to turn out on Saturday.

“Planned Parenthood has been the largest abortion provider in our country for decades, but the extent of their perverse inhumanity toward these tiniest of humans was not fully understood until the recent release of videos exposing their exploitation of these innocents through the dissection and harvesting of their precious organs for profit,” she said. “Please be a part of this nation-wide on Saturday, if you are able.”

Prayers for the interdenominational effort can be found at PrayerCampaign.org. (Re-posted with permission, “Nationwide Campaign to Shutdown Planned Parenthood Launches Today” originally appeared HERE)

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Like the Gulag Archipelago, the Planned Parenthood Videos Show Us the Victims of a Utopian Dream

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PP-Video-GulagMillions of highly-educated Americans still defend Planned Parenthood. Forty years ago, the same kind of people defended Communism. They might have regretted its excesses, and cringed at some of its methods, but its astronomically high ideals inspired them, especially next to the gritty reality of free competition under law.

The Bolsheviks in Russia, then Mao’s cadres in China, and Castro’s in Cuba, were striving to free men of 10,000 years of historical baggage, to rip up the structures of exploitation that had encrusted us over the centuries, to tear out selfishness from its root in the human heart and replace the squabbling, grasping consumers in the marketplace with a stark and ascetical species: Socialist Man. The Party would use its absolute power for good, and not for evil. It would fill the earth with mandatory Franciscans, men and women forged in the blast furnace of struggle until they were happily poor, proudly chaste and perfectly obedient. They would dwell in the happy paradise that Marx had sketched out for them, free of shortage and strife, dabbling at work in the morning, then writing poetry or hunting as the sun went down. There are colorful icons depicting this heaven on earth which Stalin commissioned, in the style he named “Socialist Realism.”

Like Marx and Lenin, Margaret Sanger had a dream. She had grown up in a large family, and seen her mother die shortly after childbirth. Sanger chafed at the grim, biological fact that the ecstasy of sex was chained to pregnancy, to medical risk and physical pain, to squalling brats and stinking diapers. Why should the best, most exciting moments in life be yoked by a pulsing, pink umbilical cord to years of sacrifice and self-denial? Just as Marx looked at how men interact economically and saw a dark conspiracy, Sanger stared at the facts of mammalian reproduction, and found them a crime against women. An unplanned pregnancy was a biological injustice, and this “Woman Rebel” (the title of Sanger’s first magazine) would lead a revolution to correct it.

Revolutions have victims, of course. It takes some heavy lifting to build utopia on earth. As Lenin said, you can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs. “Some of them even fertilized,” Sanger might add with a snicker, from her seat beside him in Hell.

The Western Left lived for decades in denial of Communism’s victims. Just as neo-Nazis today seek to deny, minimize or explain away the Holocaust, Marxists throughout the world colluded with Soviet propaganda to hide the brutalities of the Soviet regime, its savage abuses of power that began in 1917 and continued (sometimes worsening, sometimes abating) until its collapse in 1990.

For every truth-teller like Malcolm Muggeridge and Robert Conquest, there were at least a hundred wistful Western Marxists to wave away the reports of Bolshevik murder squads shooting priests; stealing land from Ukrainian peasants and leaving them to starve by the millions; hammering on doors at 3 a.m. to arrest innocent citizens in the tens of millions, and haul them off to freeze or be worked to death in the icy camps of the Gulag. It’s impressive, really, when you think about it — the largely successful effort by partisans of Marx to hide one of the greatest crime waves in history. According to democide scholar R.J. Rummel, the Soviet regime murdered some 62 million people. And yet for decades, Western Marxists were able to sweep those people’s ashes under the rug.

Until Solzhenitsyn.

A courageous veteran of the World War II Red Army and once a believing Marxist, Alexander Solzhenitsyn was sent to a Gulag camp for penning a letter that cracked a joke about Stalin. For years he worked, and froze, and nearly starved in those sub-Arctic camps. It was in them that he found God and first learned to pray. But he also learned something else: That most of the “convicts” (zeks) who languished there were innocent like him. They weren’t “saboteurs,” “wreckers,” or Nazi spies, as his schools and the Party newspapers had drilled him into thinking. They were ordinary people, who had tried to lead regular lives, and thus run afoul of a system that denied human nature in service of a fantasy. A daydream, really: Marx’s irresponsible musings about the shape of a perfect future, the kind of rot that nowadays might appear at the Daily Kos.

But this wish-fulfillment fantasy had captured the brains of intellectuals, and helped them to channel their characteristic emotions — hubris, envy and impotent rage. Then the Dream got control of a country, of hundreds of millions of flesh and blood experimental subjects whom those intellectuals could run through their mazes, could shock or starve, then kill.

Solzhenitsyn met the victims of the Dream, and asked them to tell their stories. He scrawled their accounts of cruelty, courage, and conversion on tiny scraps of paper, and hid them wherever he could. When he was finally released, he smuggled them out of prison, and spent long years collecting and editing those narratives. He wove them together into a literary and historical masterpiece, The Gulag Archipelago, which he spirited into the West, where it was published in 1973. The nattily tailored Communists of Paris and London scoffed at the book as CIA propaganda, or furiously denounced him. But the truth was out. Each day, it seemed, another longtime Communist would come out and admit that he’d read the book, and was resigning from the Party. The Soviet Union’s foreign legion of collaborators began to melt away and defect. The first cracks appeared in the Berlin Wall — down at its foundations, in the minds of intellectuals. They saw at last the faces of the victims, and began to doubt the Dream.

The newest video from the Center for Medical Progress is not a literary masterpiece, but surely Solzhenitsyn is smiling. Men like David Daleiden are carrying on his mission, driven by the same love for concrete, individual human beings who were made in the image of God. Abortion in America has not racked up as many victims as Communism did in Russia: We have killed 57,762,169 as of January, 2015. So we are still some 4 million short of the Soviet total. And Margaret Sanger cannot take sole blame for the death toll, any more than Marx or Lenin can. Each could claim many thousands of accomplices.

But it is Sanger’s dream of absolute, unfettered sexual indulgence that keeps the butchers in business. Marx and Lenin knew that you cannot build socialism unless you are willing to kill and imprison people who cling to their freedom and private property. And Sanger knew that if you were absolutely determined to cut the link between orgasm and childbirth, you would need to use a scalpel. When we look at the tiny face of the baby whom we see dead in the latest CMP video, we need to realize that Sanger could picture it just as well. Like Marx, she knew that her dream would come at a price. She thought it was worth it. As she wrote in 1922, in Woman and the New Race, “The most merciful thing that the large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.” (Re-posted with permission, “Like the Gulag Archipelago, the Planned Parenthood Videos Show Us the Victims of a Utopian Dream” originally appeared HERE)

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Arkansas, Utah Become the Latest States to Defund Planned Parenthood

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150817_UtahPP_Scanlon-1250x650By Kate Scanlon. Arkansas and Utah have become the fourth and fifth states to block or partially block taxpayer dollars from going to Planned Parenthood, following a series of undercover videos depicting senior executives discussing prices for fetal body parts.

Planned Parenthood spokespersons have condemned the Center for Medical Progress, the pro-life organization behind the videos, as “anti-choice extremists” and the videos as “heavily edited” . . .

On Friday, the governor of Arkansas directed the state to end its Medicaid contracts with Planned Parenthood, and the governor of Utah ordered the state to stop distributing funds to the organization.

Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, a Republican, said in a statement that he has directed the state’s Department of Human Services to end its contracts with the organization.

“It is apparent that after the recent revelations on the actions of Planned Parenthood, that this organization does not represent the values of the people of our state and Arkansas is better served by terminating any and all existing contracts with them. This includes their affiliated organization, Planned Parenthood of Arkansas and Eastern Oklahoma,” Hutchinson said. (Read more from “Arkansas, Utah Become the Latest States to Defund Planned Parenthood” HERE)

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Bobby Jindal Plays Planned Parenthood Videos on Massive Screen Outside Governor’s Mansion

By Austin Ruse. Bobby Jindal is showing once more he’s making the biggest play of any 2016 candidate for the pro-life vote.

This afternoon, while abortion supporters protested outside the Governor’s mansion in Baton Rouge, Jindal set up a huge movie screen and speakers and played on a continuous loop all of the videos released in recent weeks showing the brutality of Planned Parenthood’s baby-parts business.

One of the problems faced by the Center for Medical Progress is that many people are refusing the watch the grisly undercover videos where Planned Parenthood personnel discuss dissecting aborted babies in order to sell their eyes, lungs, livers, hearts, and even brains.

Among the handful of states that have either started investigations or defunded Planned Parenthood altogether is Jindal’s Louisiana. Supporters of Planned Parenthood are protesting Jindal’s moves against Planned Parenthood funding. Earlier this month, Jindal ended the state’s Medicaid contract with Planned Parenthood.

Planned Parenthood’s Louisiana state director Melissa Flournoy said today, “Governor Jindal isn’t even in Louisiana today, but he’s made sure to prove that he’s always ready to put politics before Louisianan’s health.” She called his screening of the videos “a stunt”, which is certainly is, and certainly one to get under the skin of the protesters. (Read more from this story HERE)

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