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MEDIA CORRUPTION ON ABORTION COVERAGE

  **  Mollie Hemingway - Media Censors Forensic Analysis Showing Planned Parenthood Videos Not Deceptively Edited  - Important article!

 

  **  Susan Michelle - Women will have more healthcare access if Planned Parenthood is defunded    - See the visuals proving the point!

 

  **  Watch the viral video exposing Planned Parenthood false mammogram claims

FOR THOSE WHO FIND IT DIFFICULT OR IMPOSSIBLE TO WATCH THE PLANNED PARENTHOOD VIDEOS

Here is a written summary of each video with salient Planned Parenthood quotes noted - 

http://www.cwfa.org/summary-of-the-center-for-medical-progress-videos/

CARLY FIORINA - THE GOLDA MEIR OF THE UNITED STATES?

MUST WATCH video of Carly Fiorina tackling simultaneously Iran and Planned Parenthood!

 David French comments:

Carly Fiorina laid out the harsh and cold truth about Planned Parenthood in a way no other candidate has to date, amidst the media blackout . ..  She is worth quoting and heeding:

      "I dare Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama to watch these [Planned Parenthood] tapes! Watch a fully formed fetus on the table, it’s heart beating, it’s legs kicking, while somebody says, “We have to keep it alive to harvest its brain!” This is about the character of our nation. And if we will not stand up and force President Obama to veto this bill, shame on us! Shame on us. Shame on Senator McConnell. Forcing a veto brings the issue to light, it does not shut down the government."

HAVE YOU LISTENED TO SEN. MIKE LEE ON PLANNED PARENTHOOD?

 

MAIN STREAM MEDIA IGNORES PLANNED PARENTHOOD VIDEOS; GIVES OUT MARGARET SANGER AWARDS

From CBN News:

 

CBN News reports:

The mainstream network media ignored the latest video released on Planned Parenthood's practice of harvesting the body parts of aborted babies.

The latest one detailing how one technician told another worker, "Want to see something cool?" referring to a baby's heart beating while harvesting its brain.
 
Ex-StemExpress employee Holly O'Donnell saying a Planned Parenthood worker called to her: "'Hey Holly come over here I want to see something kinda cool, this is kinda neat.'

"So, I'm over here. And, the moment I see it I'm just flabbergasted," O'Donnell said. "This is the most gestated fetus and the closest thing to a baby I've seen. And, she's, 'Okay, I want to show you something.' And she has one of her instruments and she just taps the heart and it starts beating. And, I'm sitting here and I'm looking at this fetus and its heart is beating and I don't know what to think."

It's a disturbing video, yet not reported on major national news outlets..

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Kathryn Jean Lopez suggests the following reading:

**  Half of Americans Haven’t Seen the Planned Parenthood Videos. Here’s What They Need to Know.

**  If Planned Parenthood Goes, Where Do Women Go?

**  If Planned Parenthood Loses Government Funding, Here’s a Map of Health Clinics That Could Take Its

**  Abortion Hurts

PLANNED PARENTHOOD SCURRYING LIKE BUGS UNDER A LIFTED ROCK

-- Mollie Hemingway at the Federalist - "The 4 Most Embarrassing Things Cecile Richards Said In Defense Of Planned Parenthood" (video and may links)

-- Ramesh Ponnuru - Planned Parenthood defenders are upset that the critics keep saying that the organization was haggling over “baby parts.” That’s not accurate terminology, they complain.  Fine: Let’s call them “parts of children” instead.

-- Ramesh Ponnuru again - On the ignorance of the populace concerning Planned Parenthood [my bolding]- Pollster Kellyanne Conway corroborated my second point below in a poll she conducted in 2013 for the National Right to Life Committee. A full 88 percent of respondents said they were familiar with Planned Parenthood, but only 45 percent said that they thought its affiliates perform abortions. When respondents were asked how many abortions they thought Planned Parenthood affiliates perform each year, 55 percent guessed that it was fewer than 100,000, and 71 percent guessed fewer than the actual number (more than 327,000).

- - Kathryn Jean Lopez interview with an Ex-Planned Parenthood worker

-- Ross Douthat in the NY Times - . . . And the problem these videos create for Planned Parenthood isn’t just a generalized queasiness at surgery and blood.

It’s a very specific disgust, informed by reason and experience — the reasoning that notes that it’s precisely a fetus’s humanity that makes its organs valuable, and the experience of recognizing one’s own children, on the ultrasound monitor and after, as something more than just “products of conception” or tissue for the knife.

OBAMA ADMIN: STOPPING ABORTION OF BABIES WHO CAN FEEL PAIN IS 'DISGRACEFUL'

What is disgraceful is that we have a "leader" with ginormous moral turpitude living in the White house.   (See the The Family Research Council report below which also rips Planned Parenthood.)  Meanwhile, CBN News offers the following coverage:  "Pain Capable Bill Passes First Legislative Hurdle"

 

WASHINGTON -- A bill to protect unborn babies older than 20 weeks has passed its first hurdle.

The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act Wednesday evening, 242 to 184. Almost every Republican voted for it and almost every Democrat against it.

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, trumpeted the act as being quite consequential.

"H.R. 36 is the most pro-life legislation ever to come before this body," the top Republican said of the bill.

During heated debate before the vote, Democrats and Republicans took up familiar positions.

Many Democrats said they had to protect America's women and those women's right to make their own medical decisions. Republicans said they had to protect the most unprotected of classes: America's unborn children.

"We have no higher obligation than to speak out for those who can't speak for themselves, to defend the defenseless," Boehner stated on the House floor. "And that's what this bill does."

Bill sponsor Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., said, "We have given these little babies less legal protection from unnecessary cruelty than the protection we have given farm animals under the Federal Humane Slaughter Act."

Democrats avoided talking about the babies, but concentrated on women who get abortions.

MARGARET SANGER AND PLANNED PARENTHOOD - from JONAH GOLDBERG'S "LIBERAL FASCISM"

This material is subtitled: "Contraception, abortion, and the eugenics movement."  It was Kathryn Lopez who linked to the following excerpt from Jonah Goldberg's book, Liberal Fascism.

Margaret Sanger, whose American Birth Control League became Planned Parenthood, was the founding mother of the birth-control movement. She is today considered a liberal saint, a founder of modern feminism, and one of the leading lights of the Progressive pantheon. Gloria Feldt of Planned Parenthood proclaims, “I stand by Margaret Sanger’s side,” leading “the organization that carries on Sanger’s legacy.” Planned Parenthood’s first black president, Faye Wattleton — Ms. magazine’s “Woman of the Year” in 1989 — said that she was “proud” to be “walking in the footsteps of Margaret Sanger.” Planned Parenthood gives out annual Maggie Awards to individuals and organizations who advance Sanger’s cause. Recipients are a Who’s Who of liberal icons, from the novelist John Irving to the producers of NBC’s West Wing. What Sanger’s liberal admirers are eager to downplay is that she was a thoroughgoing racist who subscribed completely to the views of E. A. Ross and other “raceologists.” Indeed, she made many of them seem tame.

QUOTE OF THE DAY

RT @toddstarnes: The President said we are not doing enough to keep children safe. Does that mean he's going to defund Planned Parenthood?

WASHINGTON UPDATE FROM THE FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL

Todays update:

A Time to Spend ANDA Time to Cut

July 18, 2012 - Wednesday

It may be the last appropriations bill released this year, but it's by no means the least! Congressman Denny Rehberg (R-Mont.) made sure of that. As Chairman of the House subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Rep. Rehberg gave Planned Parenthood and NARAL plenty to complain about when he unveiled his Committee's spending plan for the next fiscal year. Apart from shaving off billions from the Labor, HHS, and Education Department budgets, the measure also takes direct aim at ObamaCare, its mandates, and abortion. Even the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, home to the Left's pet media outlets NPR and PBS, would lose the crutch of millions of taxpayer dollars.

To the delight of most taxpayers, Planned Parenthood would be the bill's biggest casualty. With the blessing of Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers (R-Ky.), conservatives took an axe to the organization's federal gravy train--zeroing out every last penny to America's largest abortion business. Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) tried to reinstate the funds in today's mark-up, but failed 9-5. In fact, under the leadership of Rep. Rehberg, the Committee went the other direction adding a bundle of other pro-life policies. The Chairman also took the opportunity to attach the Abortion Non-Discrimination Act (ANDA) to the broader bill, which would help end discrimination against pro-lifers in the health care industry. If it survives, ANDA would give medical workers legal recourse if they're sidelined for their pro-life views.

And speaking of conscience rights, employers might have a fighting chance at protecting theirs after today's debate. Despite enormous pressure to pull the language, Rep. Rehberg stuck to his guns and included a section that exempts employers who have moral objections to contraception or abortion pills from covering them. Rep. Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.) did her best to strike the policy, but Republicans doubled up the opposition and voted her amendment down 9-5. And they didn't stop there! The good news spilled over into two other provisions: one blocking the funds for ObamaCare's implementation and another restoring $20 million for abstinence education grants, which had been all but destroyed when President Obama took office.

Of course, the media is counting out the bill before it even reaches the floor. Help prove them wrong! Contact Republican leaders Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) and encourage them to schedule the legislation--and its pro-life, pro-freedom gains--for a vote.

Boy Scouts' Courage Merits Support

Despite relentless pressure to make its message more politically correct, the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) has never wavered from instilling character into generations of America's sons. And according to national spokesman Deron Smith, that won't change any time soon. After an extensive two-year review, which involved everyone from executives to adult volunteers, the organization reaffirmed its commitment to keeping the Scouts "morally straight" yesterday by upholding its ban on homosexuality. "The vast majority of the parents of youth we serve value their right to address issues of same-sex orientation within their family, with spiritual advisers, and at the appropriate time and in the right setting," Smith said. "[We] came to the conclusion that this policy is absolutely the best policy for the Boy Scouts."

For years, the Scouts have taken a public beating from the Left--all because they stayed focused on what benefits the boys they serve rather than turning the organization on its head to meet the needs of a handful of homosexuals who want to be scout masters. The BSA tried to create membership criteria in the best interest of kids' safety and parents' rights.

In 2010, when the group made dozens of cases of child sexual abuse from the 1960s-1980s public, it was obvious that the organization wasn't arbitrarily opposed to homosexual scout leaders when it banned them from serving in the late 1990s (a decision that the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed in 2000). Far from being intolerant, the Scouts took the necessary steps to cut down on the episodes of men sexually abusing boys that had been plaguing the BSA since the middle of the last century. Allowing the Scouts to appoint leaders who represent their values protects other organizations' rights of association and preserves the peace of mind of parents who want to make sure their children are mentored in healthy ways.

Most people don't realize that nearly 70 percent of all Scout troops were chartered and are supported by faith-based organizations. If homosexuals were allowed to serve in the BSA, thousands of churches would be forced to disenfranchise their troops, effectively killing the organization. So today, while so many continue to pile on the Scouts, FRC salutes them. Whether it's learning how to sharpen a knife, cook a meal, or help a neighbor, the BSA has invested billions of hours into creating generations of responsible citizens. But more importantly, the Scouts are teaching boys something our culture doesn't: how to become men worthy of respect.

** For more on the Boy Scouts, don't miss my interview on today's "Mike Huckabee Show." Click here for the audio.

OBAMA'S IDEOLOGICAL BLACKMAIL AGAINST TEXAS FOR RESISTING PLANNED PARENTHOOD FUNDING

People say the president is a nice guy.  I'm not so sure.  His actions are those of a nasty man, especially nasty towards anyone who resists his pro-abortion, Planned Parenthood coddling.  Run afoul, and Obama cuts off money.  Consider this report from the Family Research Center: (my bolding)

Last Friday, the Obama administration proved that it's more than capable of cutting funds--in retaliation. As payback for Texas severing ties with Planned Parenthood, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius promised to take out her anger on the state's low-income women. Starting this May, the government will phase out more than $30 million in health coverage for the most underprivileged people in the state--all because Texas wanted its citizens to have the benefit of unbiased care. The Obama administration decided to kill the funding for cancer, STD, and breast screenings because Gov. Rick Perry (R) dared to look beyond Planned Parenthood to providers who aren't under congressional investigation.

TEXAS JUMPS ON THE PLANNED PARENTHOOD BANNED WAGON

From the Family Research Council:

Texas is going ahead with its secession plan--from Planned Parenthood. Late last year, the state quit its partnership with the abortion tycoons, dropping Planned Parenthood from its lucrative contract under Texas's Women's Health Program. Attorney General Greg Abbott and state legislators were adamant that health providers who offered abortions had no business participating in the program. With $16 million up for grabs, leaders passed an outright ban on Planned Parenthood, ending its eligibility for the state's Medicaid funding. That didn't sit well with the Obama administration, which swooped into Texas and demanded the state reconsider. When it wouldn't, officials with Health and Human Services (HHS) threatened to cut off federal Medicaid funding completely.

But Texas didn't blink. Last Thursday, state Commissioner Tom Suehs signed the rule into law--calling HHS's bluff and putting Planned Parenthood clinics on the road to extinction in the Lone Star State.

NEW HAMPSHIRE ZEROS OUT FUNDING FOR PLANNED PARENTHOOD

The Familly Research Council reports:

Planned Parenthood may think abortion is "sexy," but New Hampshire sure doesn't. After a year-long debate, the state finally passed a bill zeroing out taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood and any other abortion provider. Although some Republicans had lobbied to kill the bill, House Speaker William O'Brien (R) almost single-handedly pushed the ban forward. Despite threats from the Obama administration, leaders voted the bill to victory 207-146. "I do not ever want to contribute to the stopping of a baby's heart with my tax dollars," said state Rep. Susan DeLemus (R). I'm sure her constituents agree. Congratulations to Speaker O'Brien and the many pro-life groups who helped make this goal a reality!

PLANNED PARENTHOOD ABORTION CLINICS TARGET BLACK BABIES

From the Family Research Council:

"We do not want word to get out that we want to exterminate the Negro population." For years, the woman responsible for those words--Planned Parenthood Founder Margaret Sanger--was fairly successful at keeping the lid on her organization's mission. Unfortunately for Sanger's successors, "word has gotten out" about the organization's racist agenda, and a growing number of voters from both parties are questioning Congress's investment in a group that was caught on tape gleefully accepting donations earmarked for the abortion of black babies.

One of those voters is GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain, who hasn't shied away from what he sees as one of the greatest threats to the African-American community. "You probably don't hear a lot of people talking about this," Cain told a gathering at the Heritage Foundation last March. "When Margaret Sanger--check my history--started Planned Parenthood, the objective was to put these centers in primarily black communities so they could help kill black babies before they came into the world... It's planned genocide." Planned Parenthood is "carrying out its original mission," he explained. "...Talk to some young lady who has gone into some of these centers to see what kind of conversation takes place... There's not any planning other than to abort the baby.'"

WINTERY KNIGHT POTPOURRI

I am a fan of Wintery Knight's blog. It should be checked frequently.  In case you haven't done so lately, here are some links to recent posts:

- If Obamacare is so great, then why do so many Democrats get waivers?

- Do pro-lifers care about people who are already born?

- Wayne Grudem defends what the Bible says about same-sex marriage

- Former alarmist scientist admits global warming is a “fiction”

- Does sex education reduce teen pregnancies and sexually-transmitted infections?

- UK Telegraph on Richard Dawkins’ cowardly refusal to debate William Lane Craig

I have referred to Wintery Knight's website many times (e.g. here, here, here, and here)

SOME STATES REFUSING TO FUND PLANNED PARENTHOOD

While the House of Representatives votes AGAINST funding Planned Parenthood with tax dollars (PP is the largest abortion provider in the United States), the Senate continues to vote FOR supporting Planned Parenthood.  Meanwhile, some good news from individual states.  The Family Research Council reports:

Thankfully, state legislators such as North Carolina State Rep. Nelson Dollar aren't waiting for the U.S. Senate to take Planned Parenthood's hands out of your wallet. State Representative Dollar is advancing a budget that prevents Planned Parenthood from receiving $473,000 in state funds. On Tuesday, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed a law that will ensure that Planned Parenthood is no longer the beneficiary of special tax credits. On Wednesday, Kansas Governor Sam Brownback signed a ban on abortions after the twenty-first week of pregnancy on the basis that the baby can feel pain, and another bill that requires parental consent for minors seeking an abortion. Fetal pain legislation has also been signed into law by Idaho Governor Butch Otter and similar legislation will soon be approved by Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin. In the last election, the American people sent a resounding message that they are fed up with big government that uses tax dollars against us. U.S. Senators may be hard of hearing but we are encouraged by state elected officials who are accelerating pro-life legislation as never before. To find out what actions you can take to expose and defund Planned Parenthood, download FRC's new publication: "Planned Parenthood--What Every Parent, Teacher, Woman, Community Leader and Elected Official Needs to Know.

OBAMA VOWS TO VETO ANY BILL THAT DEFUNDS PLANNED PARENTHOOD

That doesn't surprise me, since Obama is the most pro-abortion President in U.S. history.  Jim Loft reports:

In 2008 Obama told Pastor Rick Warren during the presidential campaign that he wasn’t sure at what point a baby gets human rights. It was above above his paygrade.

 

But that was before Americans went to vote.
A funny thing happened after the election.
Obama suddenly figured it out.

In 2009, Barack Obama has signed several pieces of abortion legislation including funding foreign abortions. He also signed legislation to use taxpayer money to kill embryos in research. And, democrats are pushing legislation that will force healthcare providers to perform abortions even if it violates their moral or religious convictions.

Barack Obama is the most radical pro-abortion and infanticide president in the last 35 years. Barack Obama even voted 4 times to support infanticide during his political career.

But, that didn’t stop Barack Obama from promising Pope Benedict in 2009 that he would reduce abortions. That was another lie.

This week Obama announced that he would veto any bill that did not fund Planned Parenthood.
Life News reported:

President Barack Obama would veto the House-approved long-term spending bill for the federal government that contains the Pence Amendment, a measure that would de-fund the Planned Parenthood abortion business.

Because of that provision and other pro-life riders that stop abortion funding globally and in the District of Columbia, the Washington Times indicates “Obama has issued a veto threat on that bill, saying House Republicans’ cuts are unacceptable.”

“Senate Democrats said the non-spending provisions of the bill — such as restrictions on Planned Parenthood and on Obama administration rules and regulations — will also have to be struck,” the Times continues.

THE UGLY REALITY THAT IS PLANNED PARENTHOOD

The Family Research Council summarizes the latest horror:

In the last few years, Planned Parenthood has been exposed for all kinds of alleged criminal activity--everything from covering up statutory rape and sexual abuse to accepting donations for race-based abortions. In an explosive new undercover video by Lila Rose, it looks like Planned Parenthood has expanded its broad range of services. According to Amy Woodruff, a clinic manager in New Jersey, the organization that rakes in more than $363 million taxpayer dollars a year is more than willing to help a local pimp hide a ring of child prostitutes. Just two weeks ago, Woodruff was caught on tape advising him how he could make his underage girls look "as legit as possible."

OMNIBUS BILL CONTAINS EARMARKS FOR PLANNED PARENTHOOD AND OTHER ABORTION GROUPS

- Update - Good News!  Sen Reid pulled the Omnibus bill.  He didn't have the votes. 

- Kathryn Jean Lopez writes:

A pro-life Hill aide points out more Omnibus outrageousness: 

$327 million is allocated for the Title X Family Planning Program which provides funding to groups like Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion provider in the nation.  This is a $10 million increase over last year (FY10 level was $317 million) and a $44 million increase over the last four years (FY07 level was $283 million). (page 979)

Other similar bonuses include: 

  $710 million is appropriated for international family planning/reproductive health which provides funding to organizations that promote and perform abortion overseas.  This is a $62 million increase over last year (FY10 level was $648 million) and $270 million increase over the last four years (FY07 level was $440 million). (page 1379)

There’s also this: 

 The bill establishes an Office of Global Women’s Issues at the department of State headed by an Ambassador-at-Large, and the position of Gender Integration and Development Advisor at USAID.   In prior efforts to establish these positions and offices, pro-life leaders have expressed concern that the offices will support international efforts to promote abortion. (pages 1449-1453)

And there’s even more along these lines — including a stealth undermining of abortion funding in the District of Columbia.

Me:  Ichabod!  The stench of Hades hangs over this lame duck Congress.  Evil has never been more bold and obvious in our government than now.  A lame-duck Congress should not exist.  As another has written,

No Founding Father could ever have predicted this scenario.  In the 18^th Century, there weren't 737s or SUVs. They designed the lame-duck to give new members time to travel by horse or wagon to the Capitol to take their seats. Framers never expected it to be an extension of the current Congress.

A pro-life Hill aide points out more Omnibus outrageousness: 

$327 million is allocated for the Title X Family Planning Program which provides funding to groups like Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion provider in the nation.  This is a $10 million increase over last year (FY10 level was $317 million) and a $44 million increase over the last four years (FY07 level was $283 million). (page 979)

Other similar bonuses include: 

  $710 million is appropriated for international family planning/reproductive health which provides funding to organizations that promote and perform abortion overseas.  This is a $62 million increase over last year (FY10 level was $648 million) and $270 million increase over the last four years (FY07 level was $440 million). (page 1379)

There’s also this: 

 The bill establishes an Office of Global Women’s Issues at the department of State headed by an Ambassador-at-Large, and the position of Gender Integration and Development Advisor at USAID.   In prior efforts to establish these positions and offices, pro-life leaders have expressed concern that the offices will support international efforts to promote abortion. (pages 1449-1453)

And there’s even more along these lines — including a stealth undermining of abortion funding in the District of Columbia.

QUICK TAKES

I consider all of the following important reading:

- Ann Coulter - "Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Call Our Troops Homophobes"  [She makes crucial points not made elsewhere.  A MUST READ.]

- John Hawkins - "The 10 Biggest Conservative Stand-Outs of 2010"  [An excellent list, including the "honorable mentions."]   (HT: Atlas Shrugs)

- Kathryn Jean Lopez - The Birth Control Pill 50 years later  [The destructive path of a hurricane and the "New Feminism" taking root]

And from Jim Loft's Gateway Pundit: 

- "Michele Bachmann: New Congress Should Defund Planned Parenthood"

- Obama Officials Now Referring to Hezbollah Terrorist Organization As the “Armed Resistance"

GLEANINGS

--  It Begins. Team Obama Now Strong-Arming Outspoken Politicians & Detaining Reporters Near Oil Spill

--  Planned Parenthood Celebrates Independence Day By Pushing For Military Base Abortions

--  Byron York - Obama’s new mission for NASA: Reach out to Muslim world

--  Dennis Prager explains how “world opinion” is a creation of the Left, reported by the Left.

--  Pamela Gellar - Congressional Muslim staffers on capital hill

PLANNED PARENTHOOD: "THAT'S NOT A BABY GROWING INSIDE OF YOU"

Unbelievable.  And this outfit gets millions of U.S. tax dollars!!  I have used the term "slimy" before to describe Planned Parenthood and it still fits.   HotAir reports,

Live Action has a new series of videos that launches today called the Rosa Acuna Project. Their new effort aims to expose manipulation by Planned Parenthood counselors intended to pressure women into having abortions, or at the very least, provide dishonest information to support false rationalizations for the procedure. In this clip from the Appleton, Wisconsin clinic, a counselor tells the woman that what’s growing inside her uterus isn’t a baby at all, or “anything like that” — and the doctor agrees.

Read the Live Action report itself.

Mike Huckabee interviews Ex-Planned-Parenthood employee Abby Johnson about why she is now "Pro-Life"

- UPDATE 11/14/09 - Click here to view O'Reilly's interview with Abby Johnson conducted Nov. 11, 2009.  It's well worth viewing, as well as the earlier Huckabee interview posted below.  Click here for the O'Reilly interview transcript.

- (Original Post) - I first came across this video via HotAir which linked to Ms. Underestimated who wrote:

Heartbreaking…just heartbreaking. That’s all I can say. If we continue to consider human life AT ANY stage is worthless, we will continue to devalue our own humanity.

Former Planned Parenthood Director, Abby Johnson, appeared on the Huckabee show this weekend to talk about her transformation from a pro-choice advocate to a pro-life advocate. It all started when she first was called in to assist on an abortion, and she saw on the ultrasound the actual crumbling of an innocent life. She has turned that experience into her new quest to expose what abortion REALLY is; the extermination of a living being.

You can find the full transcript here from Newsbusters.

PLANNED PARENTHOOD DIRECTOR RESIGNS AFTER WATCHING ULTRASOUND OF ABORTION PROCEDURE

TV newscast (video) tells the story.  (HT: Drudge)   Ed Morrissey adds further:

 After eight years working at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Bryan, Texas, including two years as its director, Abby Johnson suddenly decided that she could no longer participate in abortions. What pushed Johnson out was both an ultrasound of an abortion and a renewed emphasis on the cash-generating business in the failing economy. After being told to deemphasize prevention and market for abortions, Johnson finally had enough:  [more . .]

VIDEO: TWO PHOENIX PLANNED PARENTHOOD CLINICS COVER UP STATUTORY RAPE

"These are the fourth and fifth Planned Parenthood clinics implicated.  Employees deliberately neglect their legal obligations to report statutory rape, and instead offer secret abortions."  - Click here for story and video.

Map of Planned Parenthood Abuses

Ed Morrissey calls attention to the map of Planned Parenthood abuses:

Live Action Films has made news and launched investigations with its Mona Lisa Project, in which Lila Rose and her colleagues conduct undercover investigations into abuses at Planned Parenthood clinics.  They’ve had so much success in finding these abuses that they have created a violations map of illegal and/or abusive PP activity over the last decade. . .    Check out the site.  It’s an eye-opener.

LIBERALS ARE INTO CENSORSHIP & COVER-UP (as if you didn't know. ..)

 Not only Ophrah, but also YouTube (owned by Google).  How so?  Read this from the Family Research Council (my emphases):

Planned Parenthood has found an ally in YouTube in the attempt to cover up its racist   scandal. Last week, YouTube removed videos showing Planned Parenthood employees in seven states eagerly accepting donations with the express purpose of paying for aborting African American babies. Last year, UCLA student activist Lila Rose blew the story open by launching an undercover investigation aimed at exposing the racism rampant at the nation's largest abortion merchant. Rose was appalled to discover that every abortion clinic agreed to accept  racially motivated donations. Google, which owns YouTube, won't offer an explanation for this outrageous act of censorship. However, it's apparent that YouTube is covering the tracks of an organization that has a long history of nativism that goes back to Planned Parenthood's earliest days when founder Margaret Sanger advocated negative eugenics.

PLANNED PARENTHOOD TEMPORARILY SUSPENDS ABORTIONS IN SOUTH DAKOTA

I found this a truly remarkable news item.

It says, in part, that doctors in South Dakota must now comply with a new law that requires the abortion doctor to advise the pregnant mother, in writing, that the abortion will "terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique, living human being."  The law also requires disclosure of medical risks, including the risk of depression and "increased risk of suicide ideation and suicide."

MARGARET SANGER: RACIST, EUGENICIST, AND FOUNDER OF PLANNED PARENTHOOD

Here is a chance to read an excerpt from Jonah Goldberg's Liberal Fascism on the Left's eugenics roots.  It tells you what everyone needs to know about Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, and it helpfully surveys the contemporary scene as well.

PLANNED PARENTHOOD'S OBSCENE PROFITS AT TAXPAYER EXPENSE

Congress investigates everyone, but never Planned Parenthood.  PP has its hand in the public till.  Recent facts and allegations continue to substantiate my previous term -- "slimey" -- to describe Planned Parenthood.  Michelle Malkin has posted an important article (my underlining):

. . . Here’s an idea for all the hand-wringing GOP strategists in Washington wondering what it will take to win back disgusted economic and social conservatives: How about a Republican presidential candidate who will talk about the tax-subsidized abortion industry the way McCain talks about the oil industry?

In April, the annual report for Planned Parenthood Federation of America revealed that the abortion giant had a total income of $1.02 billion — with reported profits of nearly $115 million. Taxpayers kick in more than $336 million worth of government grants and contracts at both the state and federal levels. That’s a third of Planned Parenthood’s budget.

And what market-distorting results do we get for those government incentives? In 2006 alone: 289,750 abortions.

CORRUPTION IN KANSAS TO PROTECT "PLANNED PARENTHOOD" AND THE ABORTION INDUSTRY

Dennis Boyles pens the story of the incredible pro-abortion machinations taking place in Kansas from the Supreme Court on down. Money and power are involved.  Surprised? It's another one of those "hard to believe" stories, that seem to be occurring ever more frequently. 

In short, it is alleged that "The state’s largest abortion providers — including Johnson County’s Planned Parenthood clinic and George Tiller’s infamous late-term-abortion clinic in Wichita — have not only performed illegal abortions, they’ve also falsified documents as part of a cover-up."  And everyone is going after the prosecutor to shut him up and close the case down. 

Read about it here.

MORE PLANNED PARENTHOOD RACIST CLINICS EXPOSED

Michelle Malkin writes:

I’ve written several times before about Lila Rose’s pioneering undercover journalism. If left-wing reporters are going to use their positions to engineer bigotry stings, then there’s most certainly room for independent journalists to expose racism where the Left doesn’t want to go. In February, Rose released undercover tapes of her discussion with an Idaho Planned Parenthood official eager to accept money from a racist donor who supported aborting black babies. Now, Rose is back with new video of PP clinic officials in New Mexico and Oklahoma willing to take money from a blatantly racist donor. One PP staffer openly admits that “for whatever reason, we’ll accept the money.”

Sympathy for eugenics isn’t just an aberrent occurrence. It’s embedded in the historical DNA of Planned Parenthood. Margaret Sanger would be so proud.

Click through to see the video Michelle Malkin refers to above.  See also my previous post, Slimy Planned Parenthood.

ROYAL COLLEGE OF PSYCHIATRISTS WARN ABORTIONS CAN LEAD TO MENTAL ILLNESS

Click here.  (HT: Drudge)  It's scandalous that it has taken this long for an accredited body to recognize what is an indisputable fact: abortion causes huge psychological and mental grief in women's lives--if not immediately, than later.  Planned Parenthood's campaign to push abortion at every turn will hopefully suffer at least a glancing blow by virtue of this British announcement.

STEVEN W. MOSHER - "THE DEMOGRAPHIC WINTER AND THE BARREN LEFT"

Steven W. Mosher offers an important response to radical feminist Kathryn Joyce's article in The Nation.  Mosher is president of the Population Research Institute and author of Population Control: Real Costs, Illusory Benefits (Transaction, 2008).  In this post over at First Things magazine Mosher offers a valuable world survey of the state of population demographics that the far left refuses to take seriously.

SLIMY PLANNED PARENTHOOD

Update 4/3/08 - More Racist Planned Parenthood Clinics Exposed  Audioof phone calls plus YouTube video of Planned Parenthood clinic addresses contacted

Update 4/1/08 - The Billion Dollar Planned Parenthood Empire  Your tax dollars at work.

Update 3/11/08 - Lawsuit - Planned Parenthood of California bilked state out of millions

Also, seven branches of Planned Parenthood caught on tape accepting bigotry-inspired donations.

Update:  Overview of Planned Parenthood from "Discover the Networks."

Also, How Planned Parenthood Uses Religion to Push Its Agenda by Machaeleen Sedlak

- The Family Research Council comments on Planned Parenthood's  "Taxpayer Funded Porn Guide" as follows:

As if parents did not have enough to contend with in protecting their children from the evils for pornography, they now have to face government-funded projects. Unfortunately, that's the "net" effect of Planned Parenthood's online venture, teenwire.com. The site, which is so offensive that FRC's Internet filter blocked it, was supposedly created as a resource for kids seeking "medically accurate" information. According to the nation's biggest abortion merchant, that information now includes normalizing pornography. Although Planned Parenthood is careful to state that it's