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(c)Mateo Ivankovic 2017
“Dear children! Love, pray and witness my presence to all those who are far away. By your witness and example, you can draw closer the hearts that are far from God and His grace. I am with you and intercede for each of you so that, with love and resoluteness, you may witness and encourage all those who are far from my Immaculate Heart. Thank you for having responded to my call.” (April 25, 2017)
“By your witness and example, you can draw closer the hearts that are far from God and His grace.”
“Medjugorje is the spiritual center of the world.”
Saint John Paul II
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LifeNews.com Pro-Life News Report
Thursday, April 27, 2017
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Top Stories
• Planned Parenthood Promotes New Group: Grandmas for Abortion
• Abortion Activists Launch New Web Site Promoting At-Home, Do-It-Yourself Abortions
• Shocking Planned Parenthood Expose Video: Womens Health Care Down 60-70%, Abortions Up 27%
• Full, Unedited Video Confirms Planned Parenthood Sells Body Parts of Aborted Babies
More Pro-Life News
• Mother Gives Birth to Healthy Conjoined Twins After Refusing Abortion
• Incredible Photos of 196,543 Baby Socks Shows Just Part of the Abortions Planned Parenthood Does Annually
• Man Arrested for Sexually Assaulting Girls Under 12, Caught Taking Girl to Abortion Clinic to Hide His Crimes
• University OKs Vending Machine Selling Plan B Morning After Pill
• Pregnancy Center Opens 100 Yards Form the Last Abortion Clinic in Mississippi
• Trump Admin Looking at Stopping Obama Ruling Forcing California Churches to Pay for Abortions
• Nationwide Rallies Urge President Trump to Finish the Job and Totally Defund Planned Parenthood
• Michigan Abortions Drop 2.8% as 756 Babies Saved From Abortion
• West Virginia Gov Signs Bill Stopping Abortionists From Doing Secret Abortions on Teen Girls
• 8 Million Babies Have Been Aborted in the UK Since Abortion Was Legalized 49 Years Ago
• Judge Strikes Down Louisiana Law Requiring Abortionists to Have Admitting Privileges to Protect Women

Planned Parenthood Promotes New Group: Grandmas for Abortion
A group of Maine grandmothers who go around promoting abortions for their children and grandchildren caught the attention of Planned Parenthood this week.
Abortion Activists Launch New Web Site Promoting At-Home, Do-It-Yourself Abortions
Abortion activists have begun promoting the dangerous, self-induced abortions that they once claimed to want to help women avoid.
Click to Read at LifeNews.com.

Shocking Planned Parenthood Expose Video: Womens Health Care Down 60-70%, Abortions Up 27%
A shocking new Planned Parenthood expose video shows the business of the abortion business is abortion.
Full, Unedited Video Confirms Planned Parenthood Sells Body Parts of Aborted Babies
The Center for Medical Progress has released yesterday a new summary video along with the full unedited version (see below) featuring Planned Parenthood abortionist Mary Gatter.


Mother Gives Birth to Healthy Conjoined Twins After Refusing Abortion
When doctors told Chelsea Torres that she was carrying conjoined twins, they warned her that the babies probably would not survive past the first trimester.

Incredible Photos of 196,543 Baby Socks Shows Just Part of the Abortions Planned Parenthood Does Annually
The loss of human persons in abortion can never be fully comprehended.


Man Arrested for Sexually Assaulting Girls Under 12, Caught Taking Girl to Abortion Clinic to Hide His Crimes
April 14, 2017, seemed at first like just another routine day at the abortion clinic for a number of pro-life activists.
Click to Read at LifeNews.com.
University OKs Vending Machine Selling Plan B Morning After Pill
Students at UC Davies University in California can now purchase the morning-after pill from a vending machine on campus.
Nationwide Rallies Urge President Trump to Finish the Job and Totally Defund Planned Parenthood
Michigan Abortions Drop 2.8% as 756 Babies Saved From Abortion
8 Million Babies Have Been Aborted in the UK Since Abortion Was Legalized 49 Years Ago
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![]() 703-554-8741 LANSDOWNE, Va., April 27, 2017 /Christian Newswire/ — Care Net, a national non-profit ministry supporting one of the largest networks of pregnancy centers in the United States, filed an amicus brief to support National Institute of Family and Life Advocates (NIFLA), the petitioner in a case before the Supreme Court of the United States. Care Net supports NIFLA’s petition to have the Supreme Court reverse the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to protect the free speech and religious rights of pro-life pregnancy centers. The law at issue is California’s Reproductive FACT Act, which requires pro-life pregnancy centers in California to post notices directing women on how to obtain state-funded abortions and to notify all of their clients that they do not provide medical treatment. Care Net filed the amicus brief because it is directly impacted by, and deeply concerned about, California’s decision to force pregnancy centers in California to become spokespersons for the abortion industry. As argued in the amicus brief, these requirements violate First Amendment protections of free speech. They are “compelled speech” regulations requiring people to express ideas they do not wish to express. Agency for International Development v. Alliance for Open Society International states, “freedom of speech prohibits the government from telling people what they must say.” Requiring pregnancy centers, which are motivated by their faith to save lives, to post notices about how to obtain abortions is anathema to their religiously-motivated speech, and is therefore unconstitutional. Care Net’s mission is one of love and life. But it can only pursue this mission through compassion and honest communication. When the government forces a pregnancy resource center to become a spokesperson for abortion, that compelled speech distorts the message and sows confusion. Moreover, California’s law specifically targets pro-life pregnancy centers, and only pro-life pregnancy centers, not any other type of organization offering many of the same pregnancy-related services that pro-life pregnancy centers offer. “Clearly, this law is promoted by pro-choice activists and those in the abortion industry to silence any voices that oppose their agenda,” said Roland C. Warren, president and CEO of Care Net. “Sadly, this unconstitutional violation of free speech and religious freedom was signed into law and upheld by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. We support NIFLA’s petition to reverse this decision in the Supreme Court, allowing pregnancy centers and other life-affirming organizations to continue their life-saving work without state interference.” The amicus brief clearly lays out the reasons the Reproductive FACT Act creates compelled-speech regulations that must be reversed. The regulations force pregnancy centers to promote an idea – abortion – that they believes puts their clients at risk; and the regulations force pregnancy centers to engage in unnecessary speech that dilutes the centers’ own communications and messages. Such regulations would be akin to a state requiring Alcoholics Anonymous, whose mission is to encourage those it serves to abstain from drinking, to provide listings of nearby bars and liquor stores. Additionally, the compelled-speech regulations also violate the Free Exercise Clause, which protects religiously-motivated groups and individuals from being singled out and targeted by the government. Given that the Reproductive FACT Act’s scope is defined to apply only to facilities “whose primary purpose is providing pregnancy-related services,” it is clear that California targeted religion and religious practices. For example, places such as hospitals that provide non-pregnancy-related services are exempt from the law even though they also offer the same pregnancy-related services that pro-life pregnancy centers do. Lukimi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah prohibits such religious targeting. Finally, pro-choice activists should be against these regulations, too. If the government can take sides on a political debate and force people or organizations to express ideas that they disagree with or find morally objectionable, then it could force abortion clinics to post signs informing pregnant mothers that the clinic does not provide live-birth deliveries or support for mothers choosing to continue their pregnancies, directing these women to nearby pregnancy resource centers where they could reconsider their decision. Such regulations must be invalidated by the Supreme Court. In conclusion, the brief argues that the Supreme Court should grant the petition, reverse the Ninth Circuit, and invalidate California’s compelled-speech regulations because they “fail to respect a [pregnancy resource center]’s right not to utter a state-sponsored message that offends its core moral and religious principles” (Greater Baltimore Center for Pregnancy Concerns, Inc. v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore), and because they violate the Free Exercise Clause (Lukimi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah). The full brief can be read here. Founded in 1975, Care Net supports one of the largest networks of pregnancy centers in North America and runs the nation’s only real-time call center providing pregnancy decision coaching. Acknowledging that every human life begins at conception and is worthy of protection, Care Net offers compassion, hope, and help to anyone considering abortion by presenting them with realistic alternatives and Christ-centered support through its life-affirming network of pregnancy centers, organizations, and individuals. Learn more at care-net.org. |
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For Immediate Release:
www.ProtestPP.com
For interviews contact:
Eric Schiedler at 773 251-8792/ ejs@prolifeaction.org
Mark Harrington at 614 419-9000/ mark@createdequal.org
Monica Miller at 248 444-9096/ mmmillerlife@gmail.com
150 Nationwide Protests of Planned Parenthood
Abortion Clinics and Facilities
to Take Place Friday and Saturday, April 28-29th
Pro-Life Movement calls for
Congress to Defund Planned Parenthood
Chicago, Ill – April 26-29, 2017 – On Friday April 28th and Saturday, April 29th 150 public protests of Planned Parenthood abortion clinics and facilities will take place all over the United States. These demonstrations, occurring over a two-day period, all focused on Planned Parenthood facilities, seek to continue to make an issue over the federal funding of the abortion giant that performs over 300,000 abortions annually. Congress failed to defund Planned Parenthood when the American Health Care Act was pulled. The Pro-life movement is intent on the goal of stripping Planned Parenthood of its funding and seeks to take advantage of the Trump administration to achieve this end.
Planned Parenthood currently receives $554,000 in tax-payer funding. In June 2015 a scandal erupted over the barbaric practice of abortion and the sale of aborted baby body parts—due to undercover videos released by the Center for Medical Progress. They were produced by 27-year-old David Daleiden, who, in a stealth sting operation, recorded high-level Planned Parenthood executives discussing the violent nature of abortion procedures and the securing of aborted baby body parts in chilling, graphic detail.
The videos prompted Congressional debate on defunding Planned Parenthood and several states have already taken action to defund the group. Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, was called to congressional hearings and felt the need, after the first CMP video was released, to deny that her group broke any laws, but publicly apologized for the cavalier “tone” of PP executive Dr. Deborah Nucatola, regarding how she discussed aborting unborn children. In recent weeks President Trump by executive order reversed an Obama directive mandating that states honor Medicaid reimbursements to Planned Parenthood.
What: Nationwide protests calling for the defunding of Planned Parenthood
Where: At 150 Planned Parenthood facilities across America
When: Friday, April 28th and Saturday, April 29th–most scheduled from
9:00am-11:00am in all time zones
Click here for list of all picket locations: http://protestpp.com/locations/
Planned Parenthood is the largest provider of abortions in America, (performing over 300,000 abortions per year). In January 2017 the group LiveAction conducted undercover investigations that revealed Planned Parenthood clinics offer little pre-natal care services and ultra sounds only provided to women seeking abortion.
See: http://liveaction.org/abortioncorporation/
See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekgiScr364Y
In the entire history of legalized abortion, Planned Parenthood has never faced such media scrutiny and public criticism of its abortion practice and the possibility of losing multi-million dollars in federal funding.
Monica M. Miller of Citizens for a Pro-Life Society comments: “The defunding of Planned Parenthood is a matter of moral principle. Not a single cent of American tax dollars should go to an organization that kills innocent human life— that fails to honor the sanctity of life. Planned Parenthood could continue to receive government support if it ceases killing the unborn. Opposition to Planned Parenthood is about abortion and the facilitation of abortion. And it is the goal of the pro-life movement that the five hundred million plus dollars that currently are allocated to Planned Parenthood be shifted to community health centers that provide even more comprehensive health care to both men and women—while respecting the right to life of all.”
Mark Harrington of Created Equal states: “Pre-natal care, adoption services pale in comparison to their other services—and their big money-maker is abortion. Of the 1.2 million abortions that take place each year, almost one third are done in a Planned Parenthood clinic. It’s time to shut off American tax-payer supports for such a group that kills innocent human beings.”
Eric Scheidler of the Pro-life Action League states: “Planned Parenthood’s own fiscal reports show that nearly all of their services have declined except the so-called abortion service. Maybe if Planned Parenthood got out of the abortion business then tax-funding could go toward their building up real health care options for women.”
See here footnoted fact sheet on Planned Parenthood services:
https://www.sba-list.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/SBAList_Fact_Sheet_PP_2014_2015_AnnualReport.pdf
Click here to view the first under-cover CMP Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjxwVuozMnU
February 11, 2017 Protest of Planned Parenthood in Detroit, MI
(c)Mateo Ivankovic 2017
“Dear children! Love, pray and witness my presence to all those who are far away. By your witness and example, you can draw closer the hearts that are far from God and His grace. I am with you and intercede for each of you so that, with love and resoluteness, you may witness and encourage all those who are far from my Immaculate Heart. Thank you for having responded to my call.” (April 25, 2017)
“Medjugorje is the spiritual center of the world.”
Saint John Paul II
Be connected!
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