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Planned Parenthood Praises Women Who Support Black Genocide

mqdefaultPlanned Parenthood’s Maggie Awards praises women who its organization believes emulates one of the most influential eugenicists in America, Margaret Sanger. Margaret Sanger saw Blacks and immigrants as weeds who should be sterilized. In a June 1932 edition of her Birth Control Review, an editorial, “The Negro Number,” said of Blacks:

“Shall they go in for quantity or quality in children? Shall they bring children into the world to enrich the undertakers, the physicians and furnish work for social workers and jailers, or shall they produce children who are going to be an asset to the group and American society?” Most [blacks], especially women, would choose quality … if they only knew how.”

During the Great Depression, bringing a Black child into a hostile world was considered “pathetic.” Sanger’s friend, Walter A. Terpenning, wrote in “God’s Chillun”:

The birth of a colored child, even to parents who can give it adequate support, is pathetic in view of the unchristian and undemocratic treatment likely to be accorded it at the hands of a predominantly white community, and the denial of choice in propagation to this unfortunate class is nothing less than barbarous.

Sanger asked Dr. Gamble of Procter and Gamble to use Southern ministers to teach blacks about the importance of preventing pregnancies under the guise of “family planning.” She wrote in 1939:

“The minister’s work is also important and he should be trained, perhaps by the Federation as to our ideals and the goal that we hope to reach. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.”

Black babies’ bodies are being suctioned apart by Planned Parenthood and sold to companies like Stem Express for “donations.” The only difference between Planned Parenthood and the Ku Klux Klan is that the “mastas” are white women earning millions from black women who don’t get paid for their child’s sold body parts.

Courtesy of the Vorthos Forum:

(Re-posted with permission “Planned Parenthood Praises Women Who Support Black Genocide” originally appeared HERE)

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Daily Beast’s Seven Errors (Maybe More) on Fiorina, Blankley and Islam

It’s obvious from a post yesterday by Dean Obeidallah, a Daily Beast blogger, that at least seven errors should be corrected to set the record straight about me, my recent column on (one of many reasons) why I won’t vote for Carly Fiorina, and Islam.

Error #1. No, I’m not in the GOP. I’m neither a Republican nor a Democrat. I’m among many women and Americans who believe neither party represents them.

Error #2. No, I don’t drink coffee. But, if Islamic civilization created coffee, wouldn’t that at least have increased, even ten years ago, the 57 Islamic-controlled countries’ combined contribution of only 5 percent to the world’s GDP?

Error #3. Yes, I’ve been to a hospital, but you’d have to take my parents’ word for it, or my non-forged, authentic birth certificate. And, if the Islamic civilization invented hospitals, who healed the sick and the lame during the first three centuries, or, later in convents, well before 622 AD?

Error #4. No, I’m not interested in running for Congress, but I do admire foster mothers like Michele Bachmann, and many others, who selflessly love and provide for children whose birth mothers could not.

Error #5. Mr. Obeidallah must be aware that news editors choose which hyperlinks to include when publishing columns. For whatever reason, what he cited excluded some hyperlinks viewable on other sites that published the same column.

One links to Carly Fiorina’s speech15 days after 911. Others link to columns and radio shows: Iran’s Heritage; America’s foreign policy towards Iran since 1953; the non-deal with Iran; treason here, here, and here; and Iranian women working (note paragraphs 13-17).

Error #6. If genuinely interested in discussing religious freedom, either in America, or elsewhere, I can easily identify every text in my Qur’an clearly revealing no such freedom exists.

The European Court on Human Rights has repeatedly ruled that Shari’a law is “incompatible with the fundamental principles of democracy.”

Yet, Islamic organizations have spent millions to transform American courts to become Shari’a compliant. Even the majority of Muslims polled in America and worldwide prefer Shari’a law, not the Constitution.

Error #7. No one can rationally deny that Islam institutionalizes violence against women and girls.

To be “anti-Islam” is to be for protecting girls’ and woman’s rights — especially those living in Islamic-controlled countries.

To be “anti-Islam” is to advocate for powerless and voiceless women and children.

There is nothing bigoted, racist, “phobic,” or hateful about opposing and seeking to rescue women and children from the very ideology that rejects universally accepted human rights laws designed to protect them.

To defend Islam (and Shari’a law) is to endorse:

Female genital mutilation (genitals being cut and sewn shut),

Honor killings (fathers or brothers kill their daughters/sisters),

Child marriage (girls under age 12 are married to adult men),

Slavery (girls are sold for “protection” by their parents and/or kidnapped and sold at slave bazaars),

Shari’a Councils (Imams marry girls – even for one hour– to men, then divorce them only to marry them to another man and divorce them again),

Wife abuse and domestic violence (husbands are instructed to beat their wives as a form of punishment); husbands are permitted to rape their wives,

Non-legal status for women who are considered property (a wife’s legal rights equate to only half of her husband’s),

Discrimination, punishment, and death for everyone based on sexual and religious orientation, especially if they will not “convert” to Islam.

By defending Islam is Mr. Obeidallah suggesting that women and girls should be legally subjugated to these practices?

If Islamic civilization has contributed so greatly to the world, and to the fictional American “heritage” Carly Fiorina suggests, perhaps she and Mr. Obeidallah can explain why “refugees” and “asylum seekers” are increasingly entering America and Western Europe by the millions, every year— from Islamic-controlled countries.

As a woman, I would never vote for anyone—especially another woman—who believes America’s hope lies in the poorest people in the world of whom the majority is illiterate. I would argue the reverse. Their hope lies in the unalienable rights protected by the U.S. Constitution, and by those willing to defend these rights from threats both foreign and domestic.

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The Federal Government Tried Before to Stop the Trafficking of Fetal Remains, and Failed

Doll-heads_compressed“We have gone down the proverbial slope,” said a legislative insider who had been involved in the congressional hearing held after the first baby body part scandal broke in 1999 and 2000. Roe v. Wade was “the first step. Now we have infanticide, and now we’ve rationalized the taking [of fetal tissue] for some other ‘good purpose.’ It’s even been said that these women were making ‘a great contribution to science’ by having their babies torn apart.”

Those scandalized by the new revelations about Planned Parenthood’s trafficking of fetal corpses may not know that the nation has dealt with this issue before. In 1993, Congress passed the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Revitalization Act, which allowed federally-funded research using tissue from unborn children. It limited the trade but an industry arose that easily got around those limitations.

In 1999, Life Dynamics, Inc., uncovered the market in the parts taken from aborted children. As World magazine reported at the time, Life Dynamics’ investigation unearthed grim, hard-copy evidence of the cross-country flow of baby body parts, including detailed dissection orders, a brochure touting “the freshest tissue available,” and price lists for whole babies and parts. One 1999 price list from a company called Opening Lines reads like a cannibal’s wish list: Skin $100. Limbs (at least 2) $150. Spinal cord $325. Brain $999 (30% discount if significantly fragmented).

The story flared up briefly in the mainstream media. Then as now, some congressmen responded. In the Senate, Sen. Bob Smith (NH) offered an amendment to the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act. His amendment called for detailed reporting on the transactions of parts of aborted children. It lost on an almost party-line vote, 51-46, with four Republicans joining every Democrat in voting against it. In the House, Rep. Tom Tancredo offered a resolution calling for hearings on the issue, which passed on a voice vote. Hearings were held the next year.

The night before the hearings, the ABC news show 20/20 ran an exposé revealing the same practices the latest videos have exposed. Profit was being made from the sale of aborted fetuses and the procedures for performing the abortions were changed in order to get more saleable parts. (Here is a picture of the price list.) At the end of the program one co-host asked the other, “Chris, if there are laws on the books on this subject, why is it still going on? Why hasn’t something been done?” Chris Wallace answered, “It’s a question we kept asking in this investigation. We couldn’t find anyone in the federal government enforcing those laws.”

Things, however, didn’t change much. The major media quickly dropped the story. Congress did not move to ban the use of fetal body parts. A bill to increase reporting requirements for those who used fetal remains — including the requirement to state whether the tissue was obtained from an induced abortion — passed in the House but died in the Senate.

Eventually new guidelines slightly tightened those passed in 1993. The new guidelines banned the sale of fetal remains but allowed their use if the mother approved and the company was only reimbursed for the costs. Remains could not be trafficked across state lines.

The Unrecognized Reality

Our insider, whose current political involvements necessitate keeping his identity confidential, closely observed the media coverage and the congressional hearings in 2000. The reality of what was being done was laid out clearly, but many then, as now, didn’t find the news disturbing. ”You are overwhelmed by the fact that people are so out of touch with reality and what is right and what is wrong,” he said. “The amazing thing is that this obviously hasn’t changed.”

The news didn’t get out as far as it has with the current controversy, he continued. “I don’t think the media was nearly as aware. The average individual wasn’t as aware of what was actually going on as they are now. I think back then the penetration of the news on this issue was not to the depth and level that it is today.”

Congress was trying to make the practice illegal, he said, but “the problem is the utilization of that tissue is rationalized for a better purpose,” which meant there were financial and political incentives to preserve the market in fetal remains.

Further, he continued, there is a limit to what Congress can do. The laws that let abortionists traffic in fetal parts “are executive branch decisions and bureaucratic rulings. Congress could reverse them if Congress wanted to do it. But it requires a large, overwhelming vote.” That kind of majority is almost impossible to get, he said.

Part of the answer was in a return to the constitutional principles of federalism, with strict limits on what the federal government can do and most of the authority for decisions on such matters left to the states. “Anything that comes out of a Presidential Executive Order or a bureaucracy, like Health and Human Services or National Institute of Health, should have to be approved by our elected members of Congress, which is not the way it is right now. Congress did not do this — Congress could not do this.”

Defunding Planned Parenthood won’t eradicate the problem, he said, pointing out that it is a billion dollar a year business. (Planned Parenthood took in $1.4 billion last year with a profit of $127 million.) Abortion is such a big part of their business they’re not going to let anyone take it away from them without a bruising fight.

There Is a Solution

The problem, he emphasized several times, is moral and spiritual. “The very fact that we do these things and we consider them normal tells you where our culture is.” That culture determines what a legislature can do, and even if “pro-life legislation is passed, it can’t create the necessary spiritual change.”

“That’s how far we have rationalized this. Cowards rationalize things for expedient purposes all the time. To me it’s pretty black and white. We passed the corner of which morality has an input in the judgment of our nation. And the only way you fix that is with a spiritual renewal.”

“I don’t think we are any different than any other culture that is in decline, because we’ve abandoned the truth that’s set us free and we’ve abandoned the faith that gave us the moral values that allowed us to succeed. I don’t think it’s amazing at all that we have come to this. You see it in other cultures that are in decline. But yes, there is a solution. It’s in a spiritual renewal throughout our country.” (Re-posted with permission, “The Federal Government Tried Before to Stop the Trafficking of Fetal Remains, and Failed” originally appeared HERE)

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Worker in New Planned Parenthood Video: Aborted Baby’s Heart Was Beating as We Harvested His Brains

HoldingBabiesHead-CMPVideo6-854px_810_500_55_s_c1By Ben Johnson. A former procurement technician who helped harvest organs at Planned Parenthood said she saw a baby boy’s heart beating outside his body before the child’s body parts were extracted.

Holly O’Donnell, a former procurement technician at StemExpress, said at Mar Monte’s Alameda clinic in San Jose a co-worker named Jessica brought over the most fully developed baby she had ever seen and said, “I want you to see something kind of cool.”

There she saw the “closest thing to a [fully-developed] baby I’ve seen.”

“It had a face. It wasn’t completely torn up,” she said. “Its nose was very pronounced.”

“She has one of her instruments, and she taps the heart, and it starts beating.” (Read more from “Worker in New Planned Parenthood Video: Aborted Baby’s Heart Was Beating as We Harvested His Brains” HERE)

Editor’s note: If you want to help stop these barbaric practices, please read this story and then access this form letter and send it to these companies who are supporting Planned Parenthood with hundreds of millions of dollars in donations.

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Planned Parenthood Clinic Cut Through Dead Baby’s Face to Get to His Intact Brain

By Austin Ruse. In the latest video produced by the Center for Medical Progress, Holly O’Donnell describes a medical technician using scissors to cut through the face of a newly aborted but nearly fully developed baby boy at a Planned Parenthood facility so that his intact brain could be extracted.

O’Donnell says that the technician could also make the boy’s heart beat.

Planned Parenthood is working hard to counter the steady drip of damning videos produced by the Center for Medical Progress, but not even the highest priced Washington, D.C. flacks are likely to be able to erase the thought picture of someone cutting through a child’s face with scissors.

Holly O’Donnell and her Planned Parenthood colleague were harvesting organs that day at Planned Parenthood Mar Monte, a mega-clinic in San Jose, California that has an annual budget of $100 million or 10 percent of the national organization.

O’Donnell, who turned whistleblower after leaving StemExpress, said the child was the most fully developed she had seen up to that point. She describes in great detail how the newly aborted boy was rinsed off and prepared for dissection. (Read more from this story HERE)

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America’s Multi-Billion Dollar Trade in Murdered Baby Parts: “God’s Justice Cannot Sleep Forever”

Planned Parenthood HorrorBy now, most of us have heard about the Center for Medical Progresses’ (“CMP’s”) explosive revelations of the backroom butchery of Planned Parenthood over the last several weeks. These committed pro-life activists made a series of undercover videos of interviews with Planned Parenthood employees and corporate representatives of companies involved in the multi-billion dollar dead baby parts trade, shocking the nation.

Among other things, CMP’s videos show – in gruesome detail – how Planned Parenthood has actively marketed baby parts to corporations like StemExpress who pay top dollar, depending on how complete the aborted body is and the “freshness” of the pre-born infant’s organs. This enormously lucrative market has grown exponentially since 1993 when President Bill Clinton reversed the Reagan ban on the trade of fetal body parts. Its existence brings to mind Thomas Jefferson’s warning: “I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever.”

Over fifty leading American universities are involved in purchasing and studying murdered baby parts. These institutions of supposedly “higher” learning include Harvard, Yale, MIT, Stanford and others. Some researchers are actually implanting baby’s organs – like livers – into rodents and re-growing them. And our federal government is part of the Frankenstein act, buying tens of millions of dollars of baby parts from abortion mills like Planned Parenthood.

One of CMP’s videos suggests – as have a number of prior activists’ exposés – that some of the body parts that are bought and sold within this multi-billion dollar industry are actually cut from babies that have been born alive in failed abortions, but then murdered.

Until CMP started publishing its explicit videos, most of the nation was ignorant of the horrors perpetrated within its borders by the baby-killing abortion industry. In fact, even though Planned Parenthood aborts over 300,000 babies per year – far more than any other U.S. group – it had a fairly positive reputation among many Americans. But now that the word is out about what Planned Parenthood is doing behind closed doors, attitudes are changing.

I recently interviewed an investigative journalist who suggested that even her radical, pro-abortion feminist friends are mortified by what the CMP videos have revealed. Other leftists have also abandoned their defense of Planned Parenthood’s gruesome and indefensible treatment of the pre-born and their bodies.

America now sits in the unenviable position of not only being fully informed of the slaughter of innocents within its borders – closing in on 60,000,000 dead as I write this article – but also now being fully informed of the grotesque, multi-billion dollar industry that has grown up around the buying and selling of babies’ corpses and body parts.

If you think what Nazi Germany did was horrible, this is every bit as bad, and in some ways worse. Not only does the American genocide exceed the Nazi death camp toll, any American who spends any time reading the news should now be aware of what is going on with the blessing and complicity of the federal government. No one should be ignorant. There are no longer any walls around the American death camps.

By the way, if anyone reading this is thinking that abortion is no big deal, that the fetus being killed is just a blob of flesh, is not conscience, or feels no pain, let me disabuse you of that abortionist lie: unborn babies, particularly in the first several months of life, feel pain more intensely than we do. Why? Because they have not developed pain inhibitors. Listen to the Director for Human Dignity at the Family Research Council explain this horrible reality:

Perhaps the best way to consider what really happens with legal abortion is to think about your arms, legs, and other appendages being ripped off one by one. And then try to conceive of the pain associated with such horror and multiply it. If you could really imagine such terror, you would still only get a fraction of what Planned Parenthood’s babies are subject to.

Abortion and the trade of fetal parts is morally repugnant and must be stopped. And the multi-billion dollar industry that has grown up around it must be exposed and banned.

But how do we do this? Planned Parenthood receives most of its funding from the federal government (over 40%) and corporate sources (over 25%). You would think that given the recent publicity surrounding Planned Parenthood’s body harvesting and its central role in the trade of baby parts that politicians and corporate sponsors would run as fast as they could from this bloody organization. But precisely the opposite has happened.

Republicans-in-name-only, chiefly Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, stopped a Planned Parenthood defunding bill that was attached to must-pass legislation. Later, he allowed a defunding vote when it was a stand-alone bill and had absolutely no chance of surviving a presidential veto. Yet, even with this charade, the U.S. Senate couldn’t muster the votes on cloture to get the measure through to the floor for an up or down vote.

Corporate America has had an even worse reaction. Although three major companies (Ford, Xerox, and Coca Cola) demanded that Planned Parenthood “de-list” them as corporate sponsors (they formerly matched employee donations to Planned Parenthood but apparently no longer do), other corporations doubled down.

According to the magazine Fortune, corporate donations to Planned Parenthood in the wake of the horrific videos have actually increased. Fortune could not identify any corporate donors who had pulled the plug. In fact, a number of corporations publicly endorsed Planned Parenthood despite the exposure of its barbaric practices.

It is imperative that We the People act where we can. An effective start would be to stop – TODAY – purchasing any product, or having any account, with any corporate entity that helps fund Planned Parenthood. Pro-life Alaskans should also write the corporate boards of the donor companies, and the management of their branch offices in Alaska. To help in this task, go HERE for a listing of companies that donate to Planned Parenthood as well as HERE for a sample letter that you can send those companies.

Finally, we must have a position of NO compromise when it comes to our political candidates and elected leaders. If any politician supports Planned Parenthood and/or abortion, you should NEVER vote for them, no matter their opponent.

It is critical that we act now. The future of our nation, our state, and our children – born and unborn -depend on it.

We Must Stop Corporate Donations to Planned Parenthood

Pro-Choice Supporters Rally In DC Against Restrictive Abortion LawsSeveral dozen major corporations are responsible for funding Planned Parenthood with hundreds of millions of dollars. Those donations fund 100% of over one-quarter of Planned Parenthood’s operations, operations that include killing over 300,000 pre-born babies per year.

Horrendously, parts from these babies are then fed into a multibillion dollar American industry that directly profits from the murder of the unborn. Read more about this HERE.

We encourage you to stop purchasing goods and services from any corporation that is helping fund Planned Parenthood. We also encourage you to write a letter or email to, or even call, the corporate office of each of these corporations and explain why you will no longer spend money their way.

For your convenience, we have included a list of the offending corporations HERE – along with their contact information – that are helping to directly fund Planned Parenthood’s operations.

Finally, we have created a form letter HERE that you are free to use in lodging your complaint against Planned Parenthood-supporting companies.

Thank you for your fight for life. And may God Bless your efforts.

Restoring Liberty

A Form Letter to Send to Companies Donating to Planned Parenthood

images (72)Before sending the below letter, make sure you add the information italicized and in brackets below. If you’re looking for the names and addresses of companies that donate to Planned Parenthood, please click HERE.

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[Insert date]

[Insert your name and address]

[Insert corporate name]

[Insert corporate address]

Dear [Insert corporate name],

We were very disappointed to recently discover that your corporation is involved in helping fund the barbaric practices of Planned Parenthood. Although our hard earned dollars have been spent on ***list products you have previously purchased from the company*** in the past, that ends today.

As you undoubtedly know by now, a number of undercover videos reveal that Planned Parenthood is actively involved in the marketing of dead baby parts derived from the hundreds of thousands of abortions committed within their facilities. The videos even suggest that Planned Parenthood employees are murdering babies in failed abortions and subsequently selling their parts.

Although the funding of any group committing the murder of the unborn is reason enough to boycott your business, sponsoring an organization involved in the grotesque body parts trade is especially horrifying to consumers like us.

Until you cut-off 100% of all direct support (and any indirect support through third party groups) for Planned Parenthood, my family and I promise that we will no longer purchase any of your products and/or services. And we will do everything we can to notify our larger communities about what you are doing.

Please let me know at your earliest convenience as to whether you will cut off ALL funding to Planned Parenthood.

Sincerely,

[Your Name]

Here are the Companies Donating to Planned Parenthood

planned-parenthood-dixon-ca3Here are the companies that are donating millions of dollars to Planned Parenthood. Please write them stating that you will not buy their products or services until they stop their funding of this barbaric organization. For your convenience, we have prepared a form letter HERE. And if you need more information on why Planned Parenthood must be shut down, please click HERE.

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Adobe Systems Incorporated
345 Park Avenue
San Jose, CA 95110-2704
408-536-6000
408-537-6000 (fax)

American Express
4315 S 2700 W
Salt Lake City, UT 84184-0440
1‑800‑954‑0559

Avon
5389 East Provident Drive
Cincinnati, OH 45246
800-500-2866

Bath & Body Works
7 Limited Parkway East
Reynoldsburg, OH 43068
1-800-756-5005

Ben & Jerry’s
30 Community Drive
South Burlington, VT 05403-6828
802-846-1500

Boeing
100 North Riverside
Chicago, Illinois 60606
312-544-2000

Clorox
1221 Broadway
Oakland, CA 94612
510-271-7000

Converse
1 High St. #6 North
Andover, MA 01845
1-978-983-3300

Deutsche Bank
60 Wall Street
New York, NY, USA
212-250-2500

Dockers
1415 Murfreesboro Road, Suite 600
Nashville, TN 37217
800-636-2574

Energizer
533 Maryville University Drive
St. Louis, MO 63141
800-383-7323

Expedia Headquarters
333 108th Ave. NE
Bellevue, WA 98004
1-425-679-7200

ExxonMobil
5959 Las Colinas Boulevard
Irving, Texas 75039-2298
972-444-1000

Fannie Mae
900 Wisconsin Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20016-2892
1-800-732-6643

Groupon
600 W. Chicago Ave.
Chicago, IL 60654
1-312-676-5773

Intuit
2700 Coast Ave.
Mountain View, CA 94043
1-800-4INTUIT

Johnson & Johnson
1 Johnson And Johnson Plaza
New Brunswick, NJ 08933
732-524-0400

La Senza
5405 Eglinton Ave West, #106
Toronto, ON
1-888-527-3692

Levi Strauss
1155 Battery Street
San Francisco, CA 94111 U.S.A
415-501-6000
415-501-7112 (fax)

Liberty Mutual
175 Berkeley Street
Boston, MA 02116
888-398-8924

Macy’s
151 West 34th Street
New York, NY 10001
212-494-3000

March of Dimes
1275 Mamaroneck Avenue
White Plains, NY 10605
914-997-4488

Microsoft
15010 NE 36th Street
Redmond, WA 98052
425-703-6214

Morgan Stanley
1585 Broadway
New York, NY 10036
888-454-3965

Nike
One Bowerman Dr.
Beaverton, OR 97005
503-671-6453

Oracle
500 Oracle Parkway
Redwood Shores, CA 94065
650-506-7000

PepsiCo
700 Anderson Hill Road
Purchase, NY 10577
800-433-2652

Pfizer
235 East 42nd Street
New York, NY 10017
212-733-2323

Progressive Insurance
6300 Wilson Mills Rd.
Mayfield Village, Ohio 44143
800-876-5581

Starbucks
PO Box 6363
Dover, DE 19905-6363
800-782-7282

Susan G. Komen
5005 LBJ Freeway
Suite 250
Dallas, TX 75244
877-465-6636

Unilever
800 Sylvan Avenue
Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632
800-298-5018

United Way
701 N. Fairfax Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
703-836-7112

Verizon
140 West St
New York, NY 10013
212-395-1000

Wells Fargo
420 Montgomery Street
San Francisco, CA
800-869-3557
415-975-7745 (fax)

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Ben Carson Pro-Life? Candidate Makes Troubling Statements Regarding Aborted Fetal Tissue for Research, Vaccinations, Referred Women to Abortionists

2B571C0000000578-0-image-a-1_1439508990720Ben Carson Used Aborted Fetal Tissue in Research, No Apologies

By Wills Robinson. Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson has defended using aborted fetuses for medical research – even though he has slammed Planned Parenthood for a similar practice.

The neurosurgeon conducted research in 1992 using two fetuses aborted in the ninth and 17th week of gestation, but insists it does contradict his pro-life stance.

He has also claimed it does not go against his call to take away funding from the embattled organisation, which has been under intense scrutiny since undercover videos of staff members discussing the use of fetuses in scientific research surfaced.

He continued by saying: ‘There is absolutely no contradiction between the research I worked on in 1992 and my pro-life views.

‘The issue of fetal tissue has everything to do with how the tissue is acquired. My primary responsibility in that research was operating on people to obtain diseased tissue for comparison to banked tissue samples. (Read more from “Pro-Life Fraud? Ben Carson Used Aborted Fetal Tissue in Research, No Apologies; Also Opposes Religious Exemptions for Vaccinations Containing Aborted Fetal Cells” HERE)

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Ben Carson: No ‘Philosophical’ or ‘Religious’ Exemptions for Vaccinations, Even Those Derived from Aborted Fetal Cell Lines

By Breitbart News. Dr. Ben Carson, a likely 2016 GOP presidential contenders, believes there should be no “philosophical” or “religious” exemptions for vaccinations.

“Although I strongly believe in individual rights and the rights of parents to raise their children as they see fit, I also recognize that public health and public safety are extremely important in our society,” Carson told The Hill. “Certain communicable diseases have been largely eradicated by immunization policies in this country and we should not allow those diseases to return by foregoing safe immunization programs, for philosophical, religious or other reasons when we have the means to eradicate them.”

The retired neurosurgeon’s comments came hours after New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and Sen. Rand Paul, both of whom are likely 2016 presidential candidates and potential rivals, stirred up controversy with their takes on vaccinations after the Disneyland measles outbreak.

On Monday, Christie called for a need for “balance” regarding vaccination before his office immediately clarified Christie’s comments, saying there is “no question” that kids should be vaccinated against a disease like measles.

Paul said he could not understand why his belief that most vaccinations should be “voluntary” is in any way “controversial.” (Read more from this story HERE)

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Ben Carson Defends Use of Fetal Tissue for Research

By David Weigel. Ben Carson defended the use of fetal tissue for medical research Thursday, after a blog published excerpts of a 1992 paper describing work the neurosurgeon-turned-presidential candidate carried out using aborted fetuses. In an interview with The Washington Post, Carson called the revelation “desperate,” and ignorant of the way medical research was carried out.

“You have to look at the intent,” Carson said before beginning a campaign swing through New Hampshire. “To willfully ignore evidence that you have for some ideological reason is wrong. If you’re killing babies and taking the tissue, that’s a very different thing than taking a dead specimen and keeping a record of it.”

Carson, who has risen in primary polls since last week’s debate, is among the Republicans who’ve condemned Planned Parenthood after undercover videos revealed executives in the organization coldly discussing the extraction and distribution of tissue from aborted fetuses. In a July interview on Fox News, after the first videos broke, Carson said that there was “nothing that can’t be done without fetal tissue” and that babies aborted at 17 weeks were clearly human beings.

That inspired Jen Gunter to excavate a 1992 paper, co-authored by Carson, in which doctors described how they applied “human choroid plexus ependyma and nasal mucosa from two fetuses aborted in the ninth and 17th week of gestation.” That, wrote Gunter, was quite the contrast from Carson’s 2015 denunciation of fetal tissue research.

“Could he think his own research was useless?” Gunter asked. “If it was non-contributory to the field why was it published? Maybe he forgot that he’d done the research on fetal tissue?” (Read more from this story HERE)
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Dr. Carson Referred Women to Abortionists

Republicans most trust Dr. Ben Carson and Mike Huckabee to handle the issue of abortion, according to a recent CNN poll. However, a series of statements from Carson’s campaign, and from Dr. Carson himself, have led to questions about the clarity of his pro-life views about when life begins, how RU-486 works, and his views on experimenting with aborted fetal tissue, among other issues.

On Tuesday, the Carson campaign defended his decision to refer women to abortionists if the child suffered from fetal deformities. (Read more from this story HERE)

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Arkansas, Utah Target Planned Parenthood Funding

planned_parenthood_ap_328_0By Sarah Ferris. Arkansas and Utah are the latest states to target funding for Planned Parenthood, making five states in total trying to restrict money from the women’s health group.

Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson is moving ahead with plans to strip state funding from Planned Parenthood, defying a federal warning earlier this week that doing so could be against the law.

Hutchinson announced Friday that he has ordered the state’s health department to end Medicaid contracts with Planned Parenthood over concerns about the organization’s fetal tissue program.

“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,” Hutchinson wrote in a statement first reported by The Associated Press.

The move defies the Obama administration’s warning earlier this week, arguing that states cannot restrict Medicaid providers. (Read more from “Arkansas, Utah Target Planned Parenthood Funding” HERE)
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Otter Declines to Order Investigation of Planned Parenthood

By Kimberlee Kruesi. Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter said he will not launch an investigation into Planned Parenthood facilities in Idaho despite receiving a request from nearly 30 Republican state lawmakers.

In an Aug. 6 letter, Otter, also a Republican, said there are no grounds for a legal investigation because there is no evidence Planned Parenthood has violated any state or federal laws in Idaho.

Planned Parenthood has come under scrutiny after anti-abortion activists released undercover videos that raised questions about whether the national organization was profiting from the sale of fetal tissue— an accusation the group denies.

“I have been in contact with Planned Parenthood officials here in Idaho and they assured me that these practices do not occur in Idaho or within the states that make up Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest,” Otter wrote.

However, his letter also challenged Planned Parenthood to reassure Idahoans that such activities do not occur in the state. (Read more from this story HERE)

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Court Rules Against StemExpress on Undercover Planned Parenthood Videos

deniiedBy Caleb Howe. On Thursday afternoon, Alliance Defending Freedom issued a press release stating that a Superior Court of the State of California has rule in StemExpress v. The Center for Medical Progress, deciding the group has no rights to the materials produced by an undercover investigative journalist.

“People who don’t have anything to hide don’t go to court to stop journalists from reporting the truth,” said Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund President Chuck LiMandri. “The court was right to deny StemExpress’ request to gain access to damaging material against them obtained through solid investigative journalism.”

LiMandri explains exactly why. “Americans have the right to know the truth about Planned Parenthood’s sale of baby body parts and the ‘fiscal rewards’ Stem Express says that it provides to abortion clinics.” It is that right which StemExpress, Planned Parenthood, and their allies in the White House and elsewhere have attempted to deny.

Speaking with Truth Revolt by email, Senior Counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom Casey Mattox adds:

“The Court has rightly stopped Stem Express from using a meritless lawsuit to try to silence the Center for Medical Progress. Americans have a right to know the truth about Planned Parenthood and its business deals with Stem Express. This decision brings us one step closer to the day Stem Express and Planned Parenthood have been dreading.”

(Read more from “Court Rules Against StemExpress on Undercover Planned Parenthood Videos” HERE)

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Denied Abortion, 11-Year-Old Paraguay Rape Victim Gives Birth

By Hugo Olazar. An 11-year-old Paraguayan girl who was raped by her mother’s boyfriend gave birth Thursday, rekindling the uproar over authorities’ refusal to let her have an abortion.

The child, who was 10 when she was raped, gave birth by C-section to a girl that weighed 3.5 kilos (eight pounds), said Dolores Castellanos, the doctor that monitored the pregnancy.

The girl has named the baby Milagros, which is Spanish for miracles.

The pregnancy came to light when the girl went to the doctor with stomach pains in April. Doctors initially believed she had parasites, but discovered on examining her that she was five months pregnant.

The authorities’ handling of the case sparked outrage in this predominantly Catholic country, where abortion is illegal except when the mother’s life is deemed to be at risk. (Read more from this story HERE)

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