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97 Days of Life: Margaret Sanger – 97 years of misinformation and profit

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97 Days of Life: Margaret Sanger – 97 years of misinformation and profit

On this day in 1916 eugenicist Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, with the help of her sister, Ethel Byrne in Brooklyn, New York.  This first facility laid the groundwork for the creation of abortion giant Planned Parenthood, which has turned the willful killing of babies in the womb into a profitable money making business.    In 2011 Planned Parenthood Federation of America committed 333,964 abortions for a profit of around $150 million and a total budget of $1.0482 billion.  In 2010 46 percent of the total PPFA budget comes from tax payer dollars in the form of government funding and they closed out the year with an excess of revenue over expenses of 18.5 million dollars

According to reports Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards makes over $400,000 in taxpayer subsidized salary.  While Ms. Richards IS a CEO of a billion dollar industry, Planned Parenthood also receives at least 46 percent (in 2010) their funding from various taxpayer sources.  Ms. Richards insists none of her salary comes from taxpayer funds – however just as taxpayer subsidies allows Planned Parenthood to do abortions by freeing the money that would be spent elsewhere, the same holds true for her compensation. 

Let us compare her salary to other jobs that are taxpayer subsidized:

Ms. Richards is not the only highly paid individual who also receives federal subsidies.  Check out these subsidized salaries: 

Please don’t miss the irony that while Big Bird is well paid to educate children, Ms. Richards is even better paid to eliminate them.

For more on abortion giant Planned Parenthood please visit Alliance Defending Freedom’s website Pretty Ugly.

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98 Days of Life: Aubies Celebrate a LifeLine That Can Inspire Us All

As we countdown until the 2014 March for Life I thought I would try to post once a day an inspiring story, an interesting (to me at least) fact or just a random pro-life message, and to start out is one that came across my inbox this past weekend.

 

In a story just starting to go around pro-life circles Auburn University over the weekend elected an inspiring young woman to be their Homecoming Queen.  Molly Ann Dutton is not only a motivator due to her seemingly sunny disposition and can do attitude.  Molly’s inspiring story begins before she was even born.  Yellow Hammer News has more:

 

A couple of decades ago, Dutton’s biological mother, who was living in California at the time, was the victim of a sexual assault that resulted in her becoming pregnant. She was given an ultimatum by her husband: either abort the baby, or face divorce.

 

Lifeline Children’s Services, a Birmingham-based Christian adoption agency, got involved and helped the woman through her courageous decision to keep the baby and put her up for adoption instead of aborting.

 

This past weekend, the little girl born into those tough circumstances was elected her university’s homecoming queen after running on a platform entirely devoted to adoption advocacy.

 

“Because that resource was made available to my mother, she decided to give birth to me,” Dutton said. “And here I am talking to you guys 22 years later.”

 

“Light Up LIFE” was Dutton’s slogan, the perfect summation of her campaign’s goal to spread the word that adoption can bring light into a dark situation. It took Auburn’s campus by storm.

 

Ms. Dutton makes a better representation of the pro-life message then any politician can hope to.  It is stories like hers that bring home the importance of being solid in our convictions.  Cases of rape and incest are “hard cases” of abortion, which is why the Family Research Council put out the pamphlet “The ‘Hard Cases’ of Abortion: A Pro-life Response.”  In it the writers conclude:

 

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“When the murder of the innocent is at issue, the only ‘pro-life’ posi­tion is to insist without compromise that the murder be forbidden in every case. . .

 

Exceptions undermine the pro-life position. If one holds the belief that life is valuable and every person has the right to life from the moment of conception, then how can he or she say that life is not precious if it was conceived during sexual assault? Children con­ceived in rape should not be punished for the rapists’ crime. Mary Meehan writes, ‘Our commitment to equality would be radically compromised if we were to say that children’s right to life depends on the circum­stances of their conception.’

 

If … the principle is that only a certain human life must be legally respected, it is not much of a principle. If every abortion really is a murder of an innocent human being, how can a movement be ‘pro-life’ unless it insists that the killing be stopped, absolutely?”

 

God bless Molly and the student body that recognized her contributions.   To learn more about LifeLine Children’s Services, and how you can help, please check out their website.

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Promotional Materials

Download March for Life Promotional Materials, and help promote the March for Life, in your town, at your school or at your church! 

We’ve developed two flyers: One will help spread general awareness about the March for Life, download here. The second will help spread information about your group’s trip to the March for Life, download here .

We’d love to see these posters around your town, church or school, take a picture and send it to us on twitter @march_for_life, or at info@marchforlife.org 

 

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Unsafe, Legal and Common

Back in the early 1990’s President Bill Clinton (D) and his wife Hillary tried to hide their hardcore abortion on demand at all stages beliefs behind a mantra of “safe, legal and rare.”  Decades later this slogan was exposed with the pro-abortion communities turning a blind eye to the butchering of Pennsylvania abortionist Kermit Gosnell.  Pro-abortion groups like Planned Parenthood and NARAL, who ignored the signs of Gosnell’s actions while he was doing them, argue that Gosnell is an aberration among abortionists.  In truth Susan B. Anthony List has chronicled that the actions of Kermit Gosnell are more the norm than the oddity. 

 

Despite this mounting evidence, abortion giant Planned Parenthood has spent millions fighting common sense legislation that would actually protect the mothers in cases of abortion (the child of course is still a tragic victim.)  What Planned Parenthood DOES support is the new law in California that seeks to allow the creation of more Kermit Gosnells by removing the requirement that the life ending procedure can be done by non-doctors. 

 

California: anti-science and anti-women.

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Obamacare’s Secret $1 Abortion Surcharge

Congressman Christopher Smith (R-NJ), joined by Reps. Dianne Black (R-Tenn.), Dan Lipinski (D-Mich.) and many others, introduced the “Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act” (H.R. 3279) yesterday to address how the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), more well known as ObamaCare, currently mandates that insurance companies that are part of the law’s state exchanges not disclose whether they pay for elective abortions until enrollment.  Rep. Smith’s legislation would make sure that insurance companies will no longer be able to hide whether their plans cover abortion and will charge enrollees a $1 monthly abortion surcharge.

 

Researchers at the Charlotte Lozier Institute (CLI) found evidence of the utter lack of transparency regarding abortion coverage. 

 

If you recall when Obamacare was passed then Senator Ben Nelson (D-Nebr.) made a “grand bargain” that supposedly would halt or slow abortion coverage.  Most saw it for what it was, an excuse for those who claim to be pro-life to instead vote for the taxpayer funding of abortion legislation called Obamacare.  Shortly after the vote Senator Barbara Boxer helped to clarify something we already knew, the language crafted by then-Senator Ben Nelson (D-Nebr.) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) will use government funds to pay for abortions.

As reported then by Catholic California Daily:

Boxer, who has received a 100% approval rating from groups like NARAL and Planned Parenthood year after year since her election to the Senate in 1992, had been a featured speaker at an abortion-rights rally in Washington, D.C., just weeks before she became involved in the ‘abortion compromise.” Following her decision to agree to the Nelson language, groups like the National Organization for Women, the Congressional Pro-Choice Caucus and the National Institute for Reproductive Health issued blistering criticism of the senator. National Institute for Reproductive Health president Kelli Conlin said the Senate bill “has sold out women” and described its as “”unconscionable.”

But not to worry, Boxer told McClatchy News Service. Boxer, reported McClatchy, “said it’s only an ‘accounting procedure’ that will do nothing to restrict [abortion] coverage.”

It is good to see at least one supporter of the law can be honest.