http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/abortionists/ en-us Fri, 4 Dec 2009 20:33:48 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2400459/posts WICHITA, KS, December 4, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) -- Operation Rescue has confirmed that abortionist LeRoy Cahart will not open a late-term abortion facility to replace the one that closed in Wichita after abortionist George Tiller's death. "I'm thinking we may not go ahead and develop that down there" Carhart told a source connected with Operation Rescue. "I think we are just going to stay in Nebraska for now." Carhart, who does abortions out of Bellevue, Nebraska, had announced that he would do late-term abortions at the Wichita Women's Health Care Services after Tiller was murdered, but Tiller's family instead decided to... Lifesite http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2400459/posts#comment Fri, 4 Dec 2009 20:33:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2382402/posts WICHITA | Scott Roeder has confessed to the shooting of a Kansas abortion provider. The 51-year-old Kansas City man told The Associated Press in a telephone call from jail Monday that he plans to use the so-called necessity defense at his trial. Roeder contends the killing of George Tiller in May at a Wichita church was justified to protect the lives of unborn children. His confession comes as abortion opponents across the nation release a new “Defensive Action Statement” arguing for the same force to protect the unborn as is justified to protect born children. The 21 signers want jurors... Kansas City Star http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2382402/posts#comment Mon, 9 Nov 2009 21:03:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379527/posts Dallas, TX (LifeNews.com) -- The late-term abortion practitioner at the new abortion center in Dallas has admitted in a shocking interview that he kills unborn children during abortions. Curtis Boyd is one of the few abortion practitioners to admit what he is doing, but he has no qualms with his job. Boyd opened the first abortion center in Dallas in 1973 after the Supreme Court handed down the roe v. Wade decision allowing virtually unlimited abortions.In an interview with WFAA yesterday after news surfaced that he re-opened his late-term abortion center, Southwestern Women's Surgery Center, in the huge metro area... Life News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379527/posts#comment Thu, 5 Nov 2009 23:55:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2378096/posts The director of a southeast Texas Planned Parenthood office has resigned after eight years. Abby Johnson had a change of heart after watching an ultrasound of an abortion. She now works for the Coalition for Life, a pro-life group that often prays outside her old Planned Parenthood office. Johnson said her bosses pressured her for months to increase profits by performing more abortions. CBN News spoke with Johnson about what prompted her change of heart. Click play for her comments. CBN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2378096/posts#comment Wed, 4 Nov 2009 08:11:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2371444/posts WASHINGTON, DC, October 26, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) -- Last Friday's episode of Law & Order on NBC, entitled "Dignity," has infuriated pro-abortionists while pleasantly surprising pro-lifers with an unexpectedly even-handed treatment of the issue of abortion.  Ripping its plot from recent headlines, "Dignity" begins with the murder of late-term abortionist Dr. Walter Benning (Matthew Boston) during a church service.  Although the episode has a disclaimer stating that the story is fictional, its initial outline closely matches the case of the late-term abortionist Dr. George Tiller, who was shot and killed in a church in Wichita, Kansas, on May 31st.  After the... LifeSiteNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2371444/posts#comment Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:02:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2365048/posts www.catholicnewsagency.com Ex-abortionist says Divine Mercy is answer to worldly cynicism Dr. John Bruchalski Related articles: Divine Mercy ChapletDivine Mercy PrayersNine Day Divine Mercy NovenaDivine Mercy Novena Washington D.C., Oct 17, 2009 / 08:03 am (CNA).- A former abortionist has said he believes that Our Lady of Guadalupe enlightened him about the destructive nature of his work, adding that Jesus’ mercy has affected and forgiven him. Devotion to The Divine Mercy, he said, is an answer to the pessimism, skepticism, relativism and cynicism of the world.Dr. John Bruchalski, who founded the pro-life Tepeyac Family Center in Virginia in 1994, performed... CNA http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2365048/posts#comment Sun, 18 Oct 2009 12:42:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2364024/posts Abortionist Writes of Doing Abortions While Pregnant With Baby Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- In a post that is quickly causing jaws to drop from readers across the world, a Michigan-based abortion practitioner has written of how she does abortions at the same time she is pregnant. Lisa Harris is an abortion practitioner and a assistant professor at the University of Michigan. http://www.LifeNews.com/state4509.html LifeNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2364024/posts#comment Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:40:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2362469/posts He used to perform abortions. Then he returned to his Catholic faith. Now, Dr. John Bruchalski's mission is to help spread the message of Divine Mercy through his medical practice. His powerful conversion story is why planners for the upcoming North American Congress on Mercy have invited him to give his witness for the historic Nov. 14-15 event. First, he founded the Tepeyac Family Center in 1994. The obstetrical and gynecological facility in Fairfax, Va., combines the best of modern medicine with the healing presence of Jesus Christ. Then, in 2000, he founded Divine Mercy Care, a non-profit organization performing... Fathers of Mercy http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2362469/posts#comment Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:40:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2359555/posts He used to perform abortions. Then he returned to his Catholic faith. Now, Dr. John Bruchalski's mission is to help spread the message of Divine Mercy through his medical practice. His powerful conversion story is why planners for the upcoming North American Congress on Mercy have invited him to give his witness for the historic Nov. 14-15 event. First, he founded the Tepeyac Family Center in 1994. The obstetrical and gynecological facility in Fairfax, Va., combines the best of modern medicine with the healing presence of Jesus Christ. Then, in 2000, he founded Divine Mercy Care, a non-profit organization... TheDivineMercy http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2359555/posts#comment Sat, 10 Oct 2009 17:20:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2351869/posts Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The International Federation of Planned Parenthood Foundation gave slain late-term abortion practitioner George Tiller its highest award over the weekend. The international abortion business honored Tiller posthumously in Washington months after he was shot and killed in his Kansas church. Planned Parenthood gave Tiller its Medal of Honor for "outstanding individual contribution to sexual and reproductive health." According to a Wichita News report, Tiller's widow Jeanne accepted the award on her late husband's behalf. Alexander Sanger, grandson of Margaret Sanger, the woman who founded Planned parenthood and who has come under fire for having racist views... LifeNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2351869/posts#comment Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:29:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2351033/posts Planned Parenthood Gives Abortion Practitioner George Tiller Top Award Washington, DC -- The International Federation of Planned Parenthood Foundation gave slain late-term abortion practitioner George Tiller its highest award over the weekend. The international abortion business honored Tiller posthumously in Washington months after he was shot and killed in his Kansas church. http://www.LifeNews.com/state4463.html LifeNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2351033/posts#comment Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:29:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2329064/posts "I think for a lot of students right now, it's very hard to be confronted with the constant negative energy and constant fighting" that surrounds abortion, said Miller, who grew up in a southern Virginia city where antiabortion sentiment runs high. Just learning about the procedure at the state school in Richmond can be a challenge. Medical students who want training in the procedure usually must arrange an elective "externship" in Northern Virginia, she said. Thirty-six years after it was legalized, abortion remains one of the most common procedures in American medicine -- and the most stigmatized. In 2005, 1.2... Washington comPost http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2329064/posts#comment Tue, 1 Sep 2009 01:16:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2327920/posts BELLEVUE, Neb. | At the end of a day of performing one abortion after the next after the next, LeRoy Carhart phrases the question himself. “Do I think I’ll get shot? I hope not,” the physician says. “Is it a possibility? I think it’s a very, very good possibility.” Meantime, the potbellied military retiree, grandfather and horse lover carries on the same steady abortion business that has defined, dominated and directed his life for the last two decades. Now he stands at the most thinly manned front line in America’s abortion wars — almost daring the opposition to stop him... Kansas City Star http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2327920/posts#comment Sun, 30 Aug 2009 13:33:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2327262/posts There is much truth to the adage that many of our wounds are self inflicted. This has been especially true for the Catholic Church in the United States and the Archdiocese of Boston in particular. Recall that the clergy sex abuse scandal first came to light there because of their egregious nature and the laxity of the then Archbishop Bernard Cardinal Law in handling them. According to statistics the Church is still reeling from the aftershocks. On Wednesday the Church further diminished her credibility when it was announced that a Mass of Christian Burial would be celebrated for Senator Edward... humanevents.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2327262/posts#comment Sat, 29 Aug 2009 06:28:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2323998/posts To liberal media outlets, Warren Hern, one of the few late-term abortion providers in the country, has been worthy of praise as a doctor who boldly stands up for his beliefs in the face of intimidation – a lonely humanitarian braving violent death for the sake of his patients. That’s the picture painted by TV and other media. What’s missing from the portrait is Hern’s belief that humans are “malignant ecotumors,” his refusal to be called an abortionist, and his strident denunciations of the pro-life movement. Attention has turned to Hern in the wake of the May 31 murder of... Culture and Media Institute http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2323998/posts#comment Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:09:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2321590/posts Omaha, NE (LifeNews.com) -- Late-term abortion practitioner LeRoy Carhart announced today that he had laid off nearly half of the staff at his Omaha, Nebraska-area abortion center. The move came after a coalition of pro-life groups submitted a complaint to the state attorney general asking for an investigation.Carhart told the Omaha World-Herald he was not aware of the complaint and said he could not discuss the reasons for the layoffs.“This is nothing new,” he said. “They are always making stuff up, and they aren't very credible.”But, in a letter to staff that the newspaper obtained, Carhart indicated the number... Life News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2321590/posts#comment Fri, 21 Aug 2009 22:14:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2319569/posts Newsweek's Sarah Kliff added her voice to the media campaign softening the image of late-term abortionist LeRoy Carhart on Saturday with her report 'The Abortion Evangelist', but says she did not anticipate and has difficulty explaining her emotional reaction to witnessing Carhart actually take the life of an unborn child. Kliff spent 4 days visiting Carhart's Nebraska abortuary, interviewing him, speaking with the mothers who were seeking abortions, and watching him at work. Painting him as a martyr for the cause, she describes Carhart's plight as one of the few remaining abortionists left in the country willing to abort late... Lifesitenews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2319569/posts#comment Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:53:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2318485/posts For thirty-six years Warren Hern has been one of the few doctors in America to specialize in late abortions ... And when Dr. Tiller was murdered that Sunday in church, Warren Hern became the only one left." Those sentences, from this month’s issue of Esquire, introduce the magazine's profile of late-term abortion provider Warren Hern. They're surprising and intriguing, the beginning of a story I definitely want to read. But unfortunately, they're not true. Warren Hern is not the country's last late-term abortion doctor. Newsweek http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2318485/posts#comment Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:40:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2316891/posts Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Wesley Medical Center in Wichita, Kansas has announced that it will not allow LeRoy Carhart to admit patients there who may suffer from botched abortions. The decision is significant because it could prevent Carhart from opening up a new late-term abortion business in town. Carhart current runs an abortion center outside Omaha, Nebraska and had worked with late-term abortion practitioner George Tiller before he was shot and killed by someone not affiliated with the pro-life movement.Carhart wants to replace Tiller and open up his own abortion facility in Wichita, but he needs an agreement with... Life News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2316891/posts#comment Sat, 15 Aug 2009 20:47:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2313114/posts Feds consider conspiracy in Tiller deathPublished: Aug. 10, 2009 at 1:28 PM WICHITA, Kan., Aug. 10 (UPI) -- A federal investigation is underway to determine if more than one person was involved in abortion doctor George Tiller's death, Kansas authorities said. Scott Roeder, 51, of Kansas City, Kan., is charged with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of Tiller May 31 at the church where Tiller served as an usher. Roeder pleaded innocent and is being held in a Wichita jail on $20 million bail with trial scheduled for Sept. 21. Federal agents, who declined to comment on an investigation,... UPI http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2313114/posts#comment Tue, 11 Aug 2009 03:55:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2311538/posts BOULDER, Colorado, August 7, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Dr. Warren Hern, one of the last abortionists willing to perform very late-term abortions in the United States, has written published works describing man as a "malignant eco-tumor" destroying the earth. Esquire magazine reports in a story entitled "the Last Abortion Doctor," that Hern, the director of the Boulder Abortion Clinic since 1975, argued in a work called Urban Malignancy: Similarity in the Fractal Dimensions of Urban Morphology and Malignant Neoplasms that growing human populations act like a "malignant ecotumor." LifeSiteNews.com found a 2008 edition of Hern's article published in the International... LifeSiteNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2311538/posts#comment Sat, 8 Aug 2009 20:42:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2297003/posts Like many black women, I once believed the doctor who told me my babies were no more than "a blob of tissue." I wanted to believe it. Eventually, I realized I was wrong, that I was a secondary victim of abortion. I repented and found healing through God. Today, I work in the civil rights movement of the our century -- the right of every one of every race to live... Abortion has taken a gruesome toll on the black community, killing more than AIDS and crime combined. Some 14 million black babies have been aborted since the 1973 U.S.... Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2297003/posts#comment Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:59:22 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/2279388/posts Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Leading pro-abortion groups continue to devise every method possible to raise money by exploiting the shooting death of late-term abortion practitioner George Tiller. One group is running a signature ad campaign in Ms. magazine while another is selling bracelets like Lance Armstrong's.A new fundraising email from NARAL begins this way, "You've heard of wearing your heart on your sleeve. Well, in honor of Dr. George Tiller's work, we want you to wear yours on your wrist."NARAL is selling purple wrist bracelets with the message "Trust Women," a mantra of sorts of Tiller's that he used... Life News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2279388/posts#comment Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:18:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2279381/posts Bellevue, NE (LifeNews.com) -- With Nebraska-based late-term abortion practitioner LeRoy Carhart saying he will take the place of George Tiller to do the lions share of the controversial abortions in Kansas, the pro-life group that was a leading Tiller watchdog is putting together a new research project focused on Carhart.Operation Rescue told LifeNews.com on Thursday that it is asking women who have had abortions at the hand of Carhart to contact it."We are conducting a research project and are encouraging women who are ready to share their stories about their abortion experiences with LeRoy Carhart to contact us as... Life News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2279381/posts#comment Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:13:04 GMT