Andrew Klavan - The Hilarious World of Abortion

With a debate about the public funding of Planned Parenthood brewing, it's time to have a serious discussion about abortion.

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Star Parker - Gosnell is Not an Exception

Kirsten Powers has done a national service, by virtue of her now famous USA Today column, of getting the news of the trial of abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell on the national radar screen.

This of course, is the horror story of a cesspool in Philadelphia posturing as an abortion clinic, operating without inspection for 17 years. Gosnell, the doctor who ran the place, has been formally charged of murder of one woman and seven infants.

Kirsten Powers

However, the grand jury report and testimony of family and staff at the trial indicate that if there were records in this dump, where life and death were meted out daily, Gosnell would be indicted for hundreds of murders of live children.

Most likely, and sadly, this horror story will have its fifteen minutes of fame and the nation will move on. The national press got dragged unwillingly to report it, finally, because of Ms. Powers’ courageous column. But there is no way to keep them on a story they don’t want to cover.

Maybe we can keep this story alive by keeping in mind a few things.

What was happening in Gosnell’s Women’s Medical Society clinic was not some bizarre exception to the rule.

You can ask Day Gardner, founder and president of the National Black Pro-life Union. Her life is dedicated to covering these realities. In her words, “This is not an exception. These realities are happening every day all over our country.”

Despite the sense that no one was paying attention to the Gosnell story before Kirsten Powers wrote about it, know that Dr. Gardner, Dr. Alveda King, and other pro-life activists were demonstrating outside Gosnell’s clinic as early as February 2011.

They held a press conference about the trial on April 4, a week before Powers’ column appeared. Alveda King wrote in her blog the day before, “…Rev. Clenard Childress and Dr. Day Gardner…are in Philadelphia reporting on the Kermit Gosnell trial that the mainstream media is virtually ignoring.“

Just this week, The Washington Times has reported that Gosnell-like conditions have existed at a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in Vice President Biden’s own backyard in Delaware.

The Times reports “Abortions have been suspended at a Delaware Planned Parenthood, after several 911 calls made from within the clinic prompted a new investigation by Health and Human Services.”

Two nurses quit to protect their licenses, one saying “I couldn’t tell you how ridiculously unsafe it was.”

According to the story, “Since Jan. 4, five patients have been rushed to the emergency room.”

Last year pro-life activists worked assiduously to get press attention on the story of the death of 24-year-old Tonya Reaves, who died after a botched abortion procedure at a Chicago Planned Parenthood clinic.

These realities persist for two reasons.

• One, we still as a nation are willing to tolerate the reality of abortion. We still allow ourselves to believe that Dr. Gosnell should be convicted of murder because he botched an abortion, the live child was born, and he still destroyed it. But that somehow it would have been okay if that same child died while still in the womb.
• And two, the squalid conditions allowing this butchery to take place all over the nation persist for the same reason that the Gosnell trial almost went uncovered. The press does not want to report about the gruesome truths of abortion. And, because it occurs disproportionately among low income, minority women, they are even less interested.

We can, at minimum, do something as a nation today. We can stop allowing our tax dollars to fund the nation’s largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood.

Marsha Blackburn

According to Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn), who has submitted a bill to stop funding Planned Parenthood, “Every 94 seconds Planned Parenthood performs an abortion and in that amount of time they take in over $1600 in federal taxpayer money.”

Star Parker

Star Parker is founder and president of CURE, the Center for Urban Renewal and Education, a 501c3 think tank which explores and promotes market based public policy to fight poverty, as well as author of the newly revised Uncle Sam's Plantation: How Big Government Enslaves America's Poor and What We Can do About It.

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Rush Limbaugh - Planned Parenthood - Hooking Kids on Sex

On the Rush Limbaugh radio program, Rush discusses American Life League's popular ALL Report 'Hooking Kids on Sex' mentioned in a Washington Times column on March 26, 2013.

WARNING: Explicit Graphic Sexual Images

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Andrew Klavan - The World of Abortion

With a debate about the public funding of Planned Parenthood brewing, it's time to have a serious discussion about abortion.

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Star Parker - Roe v Wade - Forty Years After

The number forty has great significance in the Bible.

Perhaps best known is the forty years that the Israelites were condemned to wander in the desert before being permitted entry into the Promised Land.

Maybe this mystical quantity will bear significance as we note, this month, the fortieth year since the Roe v Wade decision legalized abortion in America.

Forty years we have lived with the silent, and sometimes not so silent, holocaust in our midst as the lives of 55 million innocent and unborn children have been killed, plucked from their journey to enter this world.

Who were they? Who would they have become?

The unmarried graduate student who gave birth to hi-tech impresario and co-founder of Apple, Steve Jobs, may well have aborted this child had her pregnancy occurred in 1973 rather than 1955.

This past week former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, recovering victim of a crazed gunman, visited, along with her husband Mark Kelly, Newtown, Connecticut, site of the latest horrible shooting incident.

In their public remarks, they expressed concern that our society has become “desensitized to acts of violence.”

Appropriate words, I think, that certainly should be considered in the broadest possible sense in our effort to grasp our willingness to tolerate, even nurture, the open and flourishing presence of evil in our society.

It takes a deadening of the soul to permit this, a state of being “desensitized.”

We know it because when those senses are awakened, our indifference and willingness to tolerate evil is pushed back.

When William Wilberforce fought to abolish the slave trade in England, he moved a boatload of the elite into proximity of a slave ship to smell the stench. Their senses were awakened and a major step forward was achieved to end the horror.

Reformed slave trader John Newton composed “Amazing Grace,” with the unforgettable line “Was blind but now I see.”

If there is good news, it is that, slowly, America seems to be coming to its senses regarding destruction of unborn children.

This week’s Time Magazine cover story announces “40 years ago abortion-rights activists won an epic victory with Roe v Wade: They’ve been losing ever since.”

But in noting that ultrasound has reduced the willingness of Americans to tolerate abortion, author of the story Kate Pickert misses the key point when she writes, “Thanks to prenatal ultrasound, Americans now understand what a fetus look like and that babies born as early as 24 weeks can now survive.”

The key point is that the graphic ultrasound picture, showing the growing and moving fetus, has raised awareness that this unborn child is alive and that abortion is murder.

Ultrasound is sensitizing a desensitized American public that has been willing to tolerate this horror over these forty years.

Wars are not won overnight. Victory is achieved battle by battle.

Wilberforce did not stop slavery, but he stopped the slave trade.

Lincoln’s first aspiration was not total abolishment of slavery in America, but making it illegal in new entrants to the Union.

A battle before us now, as the American soul awakens to the evil of abortion, is to end the expropriation of US taxpayer funds, which now provide almost half the budget of the nation’s largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood.

According to Rep. Marsha Blackburn(R-Tenn), Planned Parenthood’s latest annual report shows receipt of $542 million from US taxpayers. This is outrageous, particularly when every other day we witness a new confrontation in Washington to find ways to cut our trillion-dollar budget deficit.

Rep. Blackburn has introduced legislation to end this funding to large abortion providers. Every American should support this and help win this battle.

And we must continue to work to win the war and awaken the American soul, so that forty years after Roe v Wade we bring an end to the scourge of legal abortion in America.

Star Parker

Star Parker is founder and president of CURE, the Center for Urban Renewal and Education, a 501c3 think tank which explores and promotes market based public policy to fight poverty, as well as author of the newly revised Uncle Sam's Plantation: How Big Government Enslaves America's Poor and What We Can do About It.

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Jeannie DeAngelis - Elizabeth 'Banks' on Barack

Originally posted at Renew America

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Actress Elizabeth Banks, star of such memorable flicks as Madonna’s Swept Away, box office blockbuster Sexual Life, and instructional films/comedies such as The 40 Year Old Virgin and Zack and Miri Make a Porno, cares so very “deeply” about Planned Parenthood that she’s stepped forward on behalf of Barack Obama to promote the abortion provider in a new campaign ad.

While Elizabeth Banks’ opinion is inconsequential in terms of the big picture, it’s important to expose the ignorance and farcical rationale displayed by an ever-growing roster of Hollywood shills for Obama. These out-of-touch, overpaid show-business types have made it their business to influence the ill-informed so that Obama can continue inflicting his economic and social reign of terror on the nation.

In the promo Elizabeth shares how, after graduating from college, Planned Parenthood was her sole healthcare provider. And yes, Elizabeth says she got birth control from Planned Parenthood, but only for her “massive migraine headaches” and “heavy flow.”

Banks then says, “Yeah, I’m on record saying I have a heavy flow,” which is where the spot segues into absurdity. Banks then says, “And unfortunately these are the type of things I don’t want to discuss with employers. I don’t want to talk about that with my employer. That’s between me and my doctor and at the time my doctor happened to be at Planned Parenthood.”

Too bad the ad’s not an interview, because it would be interesting to hear Elizabeth explain why she thinks a woman who chooses not to avail herself of Planned Parenthood’s services would have to discuss her menses with her employer.

Nevertheless, an even more striking thing about the ad: Since when did Elizabeth Banks become so reserved about her sexuality? Maybe she doesn’t realize it, but thanks to her appearance in an Obama/Biden 2012 ad, the whole country now knows about her menstrual flow. Moreover, isn’t this the same woman whose career was built on sex scenes, the most famous of which is in The 40 Year Old Virgin, where Banks’ bookstore clerk character “masturbates with a shower nozzle?”

In the Obama/Biden/Planned Parenthood ad, Banks continues by saying that because she doesn’t want to talk to her boss about female-related issues, she’s “really happy” Planned Parenthood exists to “provide essential services all over this country.”

Looking and sounding a bit uncomfortable, Banks then shares statistical information with the audience, claiming that “the services that they provide, ahhhh, what is it, 95% of them don’t involve anything controversial.”

Elizabeth’s Judeo-Christian/Irish Catholic/Protestant/conversion-to-Judaism roots could be the reason the actress chose not to utter the word “abortion,” and instead inserted the word “controversial.”

That 5% figure, although 3% is the number Planned Parenthood uses, has to be wrong, and a little basic math would prove it.

There is no doubt that Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion provider in the country, is synonymous with the procedure. In clinics across America, 3,500 abortions are performed per day, totaling about 1.2 million babies per year. University of Pennsylvania magna cum laude graduate Elizabeth Banks should have done some simple math before saying “ahhhh, what is it 95%” of Planned Parenthood services are not controversial.

Planned Parenthood confesses to approximately 300,000+ abortions per year, give or take a child’s life here and there. In 2010 the organization admitted to dispensing about 1.4 million morning-after pills, which makes it 1.7 million ‘abortion related’ services in 2010. And Planned Parenthood expects America to believe that 1.2 million minus 300,000 means that 900,000 additional abortions are being performed elsewhere in some little corner butcher shop somewhere?

Banks blithely declares: “So for that little 5% that Mitt Romney decides he doesn’t agree with he’s going to take away cancer screening?” Apparently, for Elizabeth Banks “that little 5%,” which amounts to innocent human beings lives’ being destroyed at a so-called ‘healthcare facility,’ is a small price to pay for women to be able to get cancer screenings at Planned Parenthood. Is Ms. Banks suggesting cancer screenings are unavailable anywhere besides Planned Parenthood?

Moreover, shame on Ms. Banks, who has herself admitted to struggling with infertility, for nonchalantly dismissing the lives of innocent children destroyed largely for the sake of convenience.

Referring to Mitt Romney, the actress asks the question: “What is he doing? He’s going to take away people’s access to healthcare close by?” Sure, in the overall scheme of things, proximity does take precedence over the slaughter of 300,000 defenseless babies, which amounts to 19 coliseums each filled with 16,000 spectators being destroyed per year.

In defense of “working class ladies,” many of whom probably have both employer-provided health care and “a heavy flow,” Banks then points out that “We’re talking about working class ladies who need health care,” and “that’s Planned Parenthood and I don’t know how a lot of communities can get by without them.”

Come on Elizabeth, even the most ardent Planned Parenthood advocate knows that healthcare is not the first thing that comes to mind when the name Planned Parenthood is mentioned. As for the communities that can’t get by without a clinic on the corner, the late eugenicist Margaret Sanger would likely concur that this is especially true for lower income neighborhoods, where Planned Parenthood clinics are located to assist minority women in relieving themselves and society of the burden of unwanted children.

According to Ms. Banks, the reason President Obama – a man who has destroyed the economy, trampled our Constitution, and continues to infringe on the rights of American taxpayers opposed to abortion – deserves to stay in office is because he “has not compromised” on the rights of women who’d rather abort their children and avoid discussing their “heavy flow” with an employer.

Jeannie DeAngelis

Jeannie DeAngelis writes almost exclusively for American Thinker and has been published on the conservative website Pajamas Media, as well as hosting a blog. See Jeannie's Blog

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Democrats Kill Bill Banning Sex Selective Abortion

“We applaud the brave leaders in Congress such as Rep. Trent Franks for leading the charge against the abhorrent practice of sex-selective abortion. The struggle to stop gendercide is a bipartisan issue--more Democrats voted in support of the ban than Republicans against—but the battle is far from over.

We will continue to release the results of our national investigation into Planned Parenthood and other U.S. providers that are facilitating the brutal and lethal discrimination against girls in the womb. The public deserves to see the truth about how Planned Parenthood and their abortion industry allies, backed by the President, facilitate the late term targeting of girls, especially as we approach a historic election."
Lila Rose

President Barack Obama opposes House legislation to ban abortions due to the sex of the baby.

“The Administration opposes gender discrimination in all forms, but the end result of this legislation would be to subject doctors to criminal prosecution if they fail to determine the motivations behind a very personal and private decision,” White House deputy press secretary Jamie Smith told ABC News’ Jake Tapper in a statement Wednesday evening. “The government should not intrude in medical decisions or private family matters in this way.”

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Barack Obama's War On Rick Perry's Abortion Stance

The federal government will withdraw funding for a Texas program providing more than 100,000 poor women with birth control and other health services because Planned Parenthood clinics are not allowed to participate, a U.S. Health and Human Services spokeswoman said on Friday.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced the decision in Houston on Friday, prompting a furious response from Texas Governor Rick Perry, who called it an "egregious federal overreach."

The Texas legislature last year voted to cut off funding for Planned Parenthood because the network of women's health clinics performs abortions. The federal government says that this violates rules of Medicaid, the health program for the poor.

Wisconsin, North Carolina, Tennessee and Indiana all have joined Texas trying to block Planned Parenthood from receiving taxpayer money in the last year. Several other states, including Ohio, Oklahoma and New Hampshire, are considering similar moves.

WARNING - Graphic Images

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Planned Parenthood's Political Machine - Taxpayer Dollars at Work

Planned Parenthood's political influence is so powerful, that the people they help elect to Washington are willing to shut down the entire federal government if Planned Parenthood doesn't get federal funding.

August 2011

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Star Parker - The Left Fuels Santorum Surge

A succession of high profile left wing decisions and initiatives of recent weeks drive home the extent to which the left is changing the face of America.

Notable among these are the decision of a federal appeals court in California to uphold a prior court decision finding California’s Proposition 8, defining marriage as between a man and a woman, unconstitutional; the reversal of a decision, due to a tsunami of left wing pressure, of the Susan G. Komen Foundation to withdraw its funding to Planned Parenthood; and the Obama administration rulemaking refusing to grant a religious exemption from the new health care law employer mandate requiring provision of free contraception and sterilization services as part of health coverage.

These developments are, I think, helping to buoy the newly surging candidacy of former Republican Senator from Pennsylvania Rick Santorum.

Why?

Santorum stands out in the current Republican field in the clarity of his image and identity. There is little doubt about who the man is and there are no glaring inconsistencies between who he says he is today and his past behavior and positions.

Even Ron Paul, who is closest to Santorum in consistency and clarity of image, carries the baggage of the sickening racist and anti-Semitic newsletters that once carried his name.

So the issue with Santorum is whether you buy what he is selling. Not whether you have to worry that there are different Santorums hiding in the closet waiting to emerge when political calculations might seem to justify their appearance.

And candidate Rick Santorum is squeaky clean conservative.

There is no pretense that so-called social issues are a world apart from economic issues.

And there is no inclination to insert social issues as a footnote to please religious conservatives while just talking about the economy because this is the main thing on everyone’s mind.

While the Republican Party splits on whether “values” should stand front and center in its platform, Democrats and the left make no pretense about this.

The political left, led today by President Obama, is defined and energized by an ongoing sense of mission to wage a cultural war in America.

And the left is determined to win this war.

The front line of battle is obliteration of traditional values and to sever the connection between rights and responsibilities.

The three high profile left wing victories of recent weeks all touch these key areas. End the traditional institution of marriage as a bulwark of our society. Continue to promote sex as recreation and relegate the life this activity creates as a trivial byproduct which we allow to be destroyed with ease, and destroy the sanctity of private property so government can finance irresponsibility with other people’s money.

President Obama is unapologetic about this agenda and even has the audacity to call it Christian for government to borrow trillions on the good credit of the American people and then permit politicians to determine who it is fair to tax to pay for it all.

The Santorum surge, I think, is being fueled by a growing sense that our economic crisis is at its core a moral crisis. And there is a growing sense among Republicans and conservatives that we must recognize the cultural war being waged and engage it with clarity and aggressiveness that matches that of the left.

An America with broken families, with an aging population growing old alone, with no educational framework to pass traditional truths on to our children, and with no private property so that our wealth and our wages remain exposed to politicians, is an America without a future.

Santorum is offering the very clear, consistent conservative alternative to this disaster and I think it’s why he is becoming the biggest surprise so far of this campaign.

Star Parker

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Star Parker is founder and president of CURE, the Center for Urban Renewal and Education, a 501c3 think tank which explores and promotes market based public policy to fight poverty, as well as author of the newly revised Uncle Sam's Plantation: How Big Government Enslaves America's Poor and What We Can do About It.

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