http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/abortion/ en-us Mon, 6 Jul 2009 04:11:47 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2286284/posts Parenthood abortion center pulled out a gun on a pro-life advocate after she handed him a brochure with information on alternatives. Police say the incident occurred on Wednesday morning. Phoenix police Lt. Larry T. Jacobs told 3TV that the man had just dropped off his girlfriend for an abortion at the Planned Parenthood near Seventh and Campbell avenues. When the pro-life advocate handed the man the brochure, that's when he pulled out a gun and pointed it at the woman for a few seconds before getting in his vehicle and driving off. The pro-life person had the wherewithal to write... Life News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2286284/posts#comment Mon, 6 Jul 2009 04:11:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286223/posts Of all the reactions to Sarah Palin's Friday morning press conference, the most common by far is bafflement followed by gentle and not-so-gentle mockery. Those who've long since deemed Palin a criminally incompetent Lady Macbeth were delighted to see her crash and burn. Sensing some kind of ulterior motive, one emerging narrative is that she is abandoning ship before some messy ethics violation is revealed in an effort to preserve her 2012 presidential viability. One outlandish theory I've toyed with is that she intends to build a new life as an evangelical super-celebrity, the tough-but-loving mother of a large Christian... Forbes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286223/posts#comment Mon, 6 Jul 2009 01:41:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2286113/posts There is something about a Down syndrome child in plain view which has exposed the moral and emotional bankruptcy of the left-wing of the Democratic party. And they hate Sarah Palin because deep down, they hate themselves for being who they are. I don't know why Sarah Palin resigned, what her plans are, or whether she has or wants a political future. I do know why the left hates her so much. And it keeps coming back to Trig. Yes, some people hate Sarah Palin because she doesn't have the traditional pedigree, she isn't one of them, she is too... legal insurrection http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2286113/posts#comment Sun, 5 Jul 2009 21:31:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286038/posts Two Colorado organizations have launched another petition drive to put a personhood amendment on the 2010 ballot. Colorado Right to Life and Personhood Colorado are joining forces to gather the signatures for the 2010 Colorado Personhood Initiative. Right to Life spokeswoman Leslie Hanks says they are energized for the campaign. "People are really beginning to see that the God-given right to life of the preborn child is something exciting to fight for," she explains, "and we've really stood idly by for too long, allowing horrible human rights abuses to go unchallenged in so many ways in this country." In 2008, Colorado's Personhood Amendment garnered... OneNewsNow http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286038/posts#comment Sun, 5 Jul 2009 18:59:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286003/posts While liberal Democrats on Capitol Hill are working to pass President Obama's plan to overhaul the nation's health care system, few are talking about this essential issue: Will health care reform force taxpayers to pay for abortions for the first time in 30 years? The short answer is yes, because there is no explicit provision in the bill to: • Prevent taxpayer funding of abortions as part of the health care benefit Congress is considering. It is ironic that taxpayer-funded abortions would be considered a "health care benefit" since the baby gets no health care benefit from abortion. •... Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286003/posts#comment Sun, 5 Jul 2009 17:39:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285797/posts Since posting this blog entry critical of Sarah Palin on Friday, I have been getting a lot of angry email from right-wing culture warriors. That's not particularly surprising. But what is surprising is the general tone. Many of my correspondents seem to be turning Palin into a sort of political Christ figure, who has been martyred for America's political sins. This email from one George Lyster was typical in this regard: "It's because of incessant criticism from people like you why she is quitting. Attack her, attack her children, attack her grandchildren. No individual should have been treated by the... The National Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285797/posts#comment Sun, 5 Jul 2009 07:16:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285522/posts If you're a teen in California, want to know about your "right to privacy" and "reproductive health care"? Do you need your parents' permission to get birth control pills? Can you get a pregnancy test without your parents knowing? These are the messages the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California is giving teens on its Web site - assuring them of their "right" to unbridled sexual "freedom." Yet the consequences of this libertine philosophy are never mentioned. Sexually transmitted diseases are now so rampant, especially among 15- to 24-year-olds, that Los Angeles County just launched a textmessaging program to... Sacramento Bee http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285522/posts#comment Sat, 4 Jul 2009 17:35:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285512/posts Planned Parenthood is facing criticism for alleged false advertising. The organization has been running ads in Washington, DC, claiming that 90 percent of its services are preventive and primary care, just like going to a doctor's office. Jim Sedlak of American Life League disagrees. With Obama's healthcare program, Sedlak contends Planned Parenthood is just trying to position itself to be in the mainstream of healthcare. "The problem is that according to its last annual report, Planned Parenthood...primary care patients account for only seven-tenths of one percent of its total number of customers," he says. Sedlak was asked if Planned Parenthood's recent report was... OneNewsNow http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285512/posts#comment Sat, 4 Jul 2009 17:24:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285368/posts Many FReepers are skeptical of Romney's conservative credentials. They don't like his past positions on abortion, healthcare, and gay marriage. They feel his rightward shift on social issues to be less than sincere. Many conservatives are angered by the Left's attempts to character assassinate Palin thru silly ethics complaints. They have made Palin's administration and family into side shows. The ethics complaints have driven her to be $500,000 in debt. This situation might provide an opening for Romney to gain Palin's support. Romney could step in to pay off Palin's legal debt. He then could make a speech about how... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285368/posts#comment Sat, 4 Jul 2009 12:09:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285060/posts Orlando, FL (LifeNews.com) -- A Florida appeals court has upheld the suspension of the license of late-term abortion practitioner James Pendergraft. He was fined $10,000 and has his licensed revoked for one year over an illegal late-term abortion he did in 2005. The Florida Board of Medicine handed down the decision in December 2007.The board also placed Pendergraft's license on a three year probationary period following the suspension.Pendergraft runs five abortion facilities and his abortion centers in Ocala, Tampa and Fort Lauderdale were shut down for a brief time during an investigation into alleged illegal activities.The illegal abortions occurred... Life News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285060/posts#comment Fri, 3 Jul 2009 20:45:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285039/posts PHOENIX -- Police say a man pulled a gun on a woman standing outside a Planned Parenthood in Phoenix Wednesday morning. Video report shown at link July 1st, 2009 UNCUT: Police say man pointed gun at Planned Parenthood protester - A man pulled a gun on a protester outside a Planned Parenthood in Phoenix Wednesday morning. Phoenix police Lt. Larry T. Jacobs said the man had just dropped his girlfriend off at the Planned Parenthood near Seventh and Campbell avenues. As he was leaving, one of the women outside handed him a pamphlet. That's when the suspect pulled a gun... azfamily.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285039/posts#comment Fri, 3 Jul 2009 20:00:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285035/posts Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The White House and a pro-life senator who is the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee are debating new papers linking Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor to a pro-abortion group. The papers show Sotomayor set policy for an organization that aggressively backs abortion.The papers could shed light on Sotomayor's judicial approach and her link to the Puerto Rican civil rights group and its pro-abortion position is concerning.Sotomayor served as a board member of the organization and has been described as actively involved in setting policy. It filed six different Supreme Court briefs all saying abortions... Life News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285035/posts#comment Fri, 3 Jul 2009 19:54:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285029/posts Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Abortion practitioner Alberto Hodari, based in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan, has been fined $10,000 by a state board in connection with a woman's botched abortion death. One of Hodari's staff did an abortion on Regina Johnson and, afterwards, suffered respiratory and cardiac arrest. Staff at Hodari's abortion center allegedly failed to help her or call for an ambulance and she was deprived of oxygen for an extended time. She died a short time later at Hodari's Womencare clinic in Lathrup Village. Johnson's death is one of several women to have died over the years under... Life News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285029/posts#comment Fri, 3 Jul 2009 19:45:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285025/posts Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- In a Thursday afternoon interview with members of various Catholic publications, President Barack Obama defended himself from criticism over his pro-abortion record. He said he supports a conscience clause on abortion but gave a joking response to a question about Notre Dame.According to a National Catholic Register report, Obama talked about his upcoming visit with Pope Benedict XVI and said he looked forward to taking with him about unrelated political issues.Father Owen Kearns, editor in chief and publisher of the Register, said each member of the Catholic press was allowed to ask one question and... Life News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285025/posts#comment Fri, 3 Jul 2009 19:38:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284948/posts Cardinal Justin Rigali Washington D.C., Jul 2, 2009 / 08:17 pm (CNA).- Pro-lifers and defenders of marriage reacted critically on Tuesday to an Obama administration proposal to use taxpayer funds for abortions in the District of Columbia and to a federal court's denial of a referendum involving same-sex “marriage.”Cardinal Justin Rigali, Archbishop of Philadelphia and chair of the Committee on Pro-Life Activities for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said in a Tuesday letter that no one can support funding abortions in the nation’s capital and still claim to support reducing abortions.“The evidence is overwhelming, and universally recognized by... cna http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284948/posts#comment Fri, 3 Jul 2009 17:22:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284929/posts Late term abortionist James Pendergraft has lost his appeal to the 5th District Court of Appeals (Florida). In 2001, he was convicted of Federal extortion and spent 7 months in jail before winning an appeal releasing because of "lack of evidence" per Operation Rescue. He has served jail time for being convicted of Federal extortion, but one cannot call him a convicted felon since the conviction was overturned on appeal. Information about his Federal extortion conviction (and subsequent reversal on appeal) from from Operation Rescue. Link to Operation Rescue article about this: Florida Closes Two Orlando Abortion Mills, Suspends Abortionist... Jill Stanek.com, Operation Rescue, vanity http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284929/posts#comment Fri, 3 Jul 2009 16:52:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284792/posts The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) received $50 million from the United States government this year, despite its involvement in China, where the government's population program, according to the U.S. State Department, includes a "coercive birth limitation policy" that in some cases results "in forced abortion or forced sterilization." CNSNews.Com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284792/posts#comment Fri, 3 Jul 2009 13:25:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284780/posts I was one of those who went “toe to toe” with my colleague during the last hotly contested Presidential campaign in the United States of America. For me, it was never about my being an enthusiastic supporter of the other major candidate - I was not. It was about the threshold foundational concern that reveals the very heart of Catholic Social Justice thought, the inviolable dignity of every human life. This is the key to the whole social justice teaching of the Catholic Church. I contended then and now that it must also be the door through which we proceed... Catholic Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284780/posts#comment Fri, 3 Jul 2009 13:07:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284771/posts At United Nations headquarters this week, the Obama administration continued its push for ever increasing access to legal abortion around the world. The Obama team has introduced language that has thrown a high level negotiation into a roil. The US proposal calls for “universal access” to “sexual and reproductive health services including universal access to family planning.” The document under consideration will culminate in the 2009 Annual Ministerial Review, which convenes next week in Geneva. NewsMax,Com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284771/posts#comment Fri, 3 Jul 2009 12:52:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2283459/posts Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities could have started a rift with the nation's Catholic bishops but appears to have avoided it. In it's last newsletter, the association called for the bishops to withdraw their guidelines saying Catholic colleges should not allow pro-abortion speakers. Now, ACCU officials have deleted that language from its Summer 2009 newsletter. The language originally had the group saying, "ACCU's directors informally concluded that it would be desirable for the USCCB to withdraw 'Catholics in Political Life.'" "A successor document, if any, should distinguish between 'honors' and 'platforms' and should acknowledge... LifeNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2283459/posts#comment Wed, 1 Jul 2009 18:44:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2284622/posts How would you vote on the proposed bill requiring parental notification or consent before a minor could have an abortion? http://www.ktuu.com/Global/category.asp?C=81466#poll84942 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2284622/posts#comment Fri, 3 Jul 2009 03:53:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284621/posts Jim Geraghty has some interesting insights about why liberals hate Sarah Palin so much -- in a word (or so), it's because she invalidates the most cherished parts of their world view. I think Jim's right, but I think there's even more to it than that. Governor Palin has been attacked with the kind of ferocity that few people in the public eye have ever experienced -- except, perhaps, for Justice Thomas and (to a lesser extent) Joe the Plumber. Why does the left reserve their most vicious derision for these three, and those like them? As I wrote last... Townhall http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284621/posts#comment Fri, 3 Jul 2009 03:52:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284425/posts At virtually any given moment, the news-cycle-driven chattering classes of politics have in the background of their computer screens or the pockets of their briefcases a Big Thumbsucking Magazine Article on a political topic that they read during periods of calm. The Big Article du jour is Todd Purdum's massive profile of Sarah Palin in Vanity Fair.Most of the buzz about the piece deals with a variety of off-the-record snarks about Palin from McCain campaign staff. Indeed, conservative columnist Bill Kristol and McCain campaign manager Steve Schmidt have engaged in a public exchange of insults over alleged leaks to Purdham.... The New Republic http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284425/posts#comment Thu, 2 Jul 2009 21:28:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284413/posts Obama's Overseas Abortion Promotion Hurts Efforts to Help Poor in Peru Washington, DC -- When President Barack Obama ditched the Mexico City Policy and resumed sending taxpayer dollars to groups that perform and promote abortions overseas, he did more than just expand abortions. Obama's move has hurt groups who are helping poor people in other nations, such as Peru. See http://www.LifeNews.com/int1253.html LifeNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284413/posts#comment Thu, 2 Jul 2009 21:05:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284399/posts Washington, DC -- President Barack Obama has named Douglas Kmiec, the Pepperdine University law professor who has become a key impediment to pro-life Catholics as the ambassador to Malta. The move is sure to spark opposition in Catholic circles given Malta's strongly pro-life stance. LifeNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284399/posts#comment Thu, 2 Jul 2009 20:43:05 GMT