http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/parenthood/ en-us Thu, 5 Nov 2009 17:48:42 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379280/posts A former director of a Texas Planned Parenthood branch who resigned after she watched an ultrasound-guided abortion told WND the clinic was pushing employees to strive for abortion quotas to boost profits. "There are definitely client goals," former clinic director Abby Johnson said. "We'd have a goal every month for abortion clients and for family planning clients." WND http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379280/posts#comment Thu, 5 Nov 2009 17:48:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2377628/posts “I just thought I can’t do this anymore, and it was just like a flash that hit me and I thought that’s it.” brietbart http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2377628/posts#comment Tue, 3 Nov 2009 19:57:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2377112/posts The former director of a Planned Parenthood clinic in southeast Texas says she had a "change of heart" after watching an abortion last month — and she quit her job and joined a pro-life group in praying outside the facility. Abby Johnson, 29, used to escort women from their cars to the clinic in the eight years she volunteered and worked for Planned Parenthood in Bryan, Texas. But she says she knew it was time to leave after she watched a fetus "crumple" as it was vacuumed out of a patient's uterus in September. FOX http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2377112/posts#comment Tue, 3 Nov 2009 03:26:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2357016/posts Disney has long been the most gay friendly studio in Hollywood, having had a couple of gay production chiefs over the years, most recently Nina Jacobson, now an independent producer after being forced out in a studio purge several years ago. The studio's theme parks have allowed unofficial Gay Day celebrations for years, prompting a host of venemous attacks from various Christian right anti-gay zealots. But Disney now has a really big first -- Rich Ross, Hollywood's first openly gay studio chief. Los Angeles Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2357016/posts#comment Wed, 7 Oct 2009 20:35:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2356387/posts Mary Cheney, the former vice president’s daughter, and her long-time partner, Heather Poe, are expecting their second child, a source close to the family told True/Slant. [Ed. Note: Since publishing this piece, Cheney has confirmed that she and Poe are expecting their second child in mid- to late November.] Cheney has worked as a principal at Navigators Global, a bi-partisan communications firm, but recently announced that she would be leaving the company for maternity leave and to begin a new consulting firm with her sister, Liz. Close friends were informed that she was expecting a second child about four months... True Slant http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2356387/posts#comment Wed, 7 Oct 2009 01:17:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2349666/posts Tried to pawn off her 6-year-old son for $10 in gas money For $10 in gas money, Marcy Pappalardo was prepared to give up her 6-year-old boy. At least according to a tow truck driver who told police Pappalardo made the proposition to him at a gas station in Melbourne, Florida. The tow truck driver turned the offer down, then dialed 911 and followed Pappalardo for several miles until police caught up to her. Pappalardo, 37, denied the allegations. She was charged with child neglect anyway. She is being held in Brevard County jail on a $2,000 bond. She is... NBC Miami http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2349666/posts#comment Sun, 27 Sep 2009 21:36:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2322075/posts Last fall I took my daughter to school one morning to find one of her 1st grade classmates wearing an Obama hat. For some reason I felt angry and annoyed that a parent sent his child to school advertising for a political candidate. What’s the big deal you ask? It took me a while to figure out why I responded to this child’s hat in this way. Addicted to LAW.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2322075/posts#comment Sat, 22 Aug 2009 16:28:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2277622/posts On March 20, 1969, Dr. Richard Day, the National Medical Director of the Rockefeller-sponsored "Planned Parenthood" told a meeting that American industry will be sabotaged and shown to be uncompetitive. In view of the recent bankruptcy of General Motors, his remarks are especially pertinent. "The stated plan was that different parts of the world would be assigned different roles of industry and commerce in a unified global system. The continued preeminence of the United States and the relative independence and self-sufficiency of the United States would have to be changed... in order to create a new structure, you first have... savethemales http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2277622/posts#comment Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:47:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2262576/posts I go to bed the moment it gets dark in the evenings, but I still don't like to get up until the later morning hours. What they don't know is I sleep all day when they are gone. I know it is not tiredness or sleepiness, but it is great sadness bordering on depression. I remember many years ago when my boy Billy was just a youngster. He'd practice playing catch in the yard with his dad, and I'd watch. For hours he'd practice shooting hoops in the driveway. I'd watch and listen to the rhythm of his dribbling. When... Country Today http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2262576/posts#comment Tue, 2 Jun 2009 01:16:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2244049/posts The fourth-place network, which has struggled to launch new shows, is "doubling down on its scripted commitment," said Ben Silverman, co-chair of NBC Entertainment and Universal Media Studios. NBC's announcement jumped the gun on the traditional "upfront week" in which networks present their lineups to the advertisers who make preseason ad buys. Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2244049/posts#comment Mon, 4 May 2009 21:13:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2232527/posts "...These were the tiny, fleeting pleasures I clung to after my son was born. They felt like all I had left. When a child was added to my life, it was as if something enormous and coveted was subtracted in return, and the transaction left me reeling, like someone who'd just gambled away his soul. I fell into a well of depression so deep I wasn't even aware of it. It was only years later, after I spoke to a psychotherapist, that I learned I was experiencing male postpartum depression...But not 48 hours after we returned home with our boy,... Newsweek http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2232527/posts#comment Sun, 19 Apr 2009 02:05:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2222934/posts It was not planned that a 1989 old-fashioned film about parenting and the travails of same would air the seem weekend that I dutifully taped the very hip and modern "Sex in the City" but so it was. So The Wise I gives a review of both movies, the similarities (few), the differences (many...how times change) and attempts to draw a moral from it all. With pics and video you'll find nowhere else on the Internet. Fish Movie Reviews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2222934/posts#comment Sun, 5 Apr 2009 21:57:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2201122/posts JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has appointed a state judge who once served on the board of Planned Parenthood to the state Supreme Court, against the urgings of a conservative group who claimed the pick would put "another activist" on the court. Anchorage Superior Court Judge Morgan Christen, 47, will be the second woman to serve on the state's high court. Former Gov. Tony Knowles appointed current Chief Justice Dana Fabe in 1996. Christen was one of two judges recommended for the post by the Alaska Judicial Council, an independent citizen's commission that evaluates judicial appointments for... google.com/ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2201122/posts#comment Sat, 7 Mar 2009 02:02:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2031152/posts The Blueprint for Heroic Family Life by Dr. Jeff Mirus, June 13, 2008 Owing to the confluence of an East-coast heat wave and the failure of a home air conditioning system, my son Peter, his wife Kristina and their two daughters lived with Mom and Dad again for a few days this week. Seeing Elena (age seven) and Natalie (four) bright-eyed and cheerful at the beginning of each day was a joy. It was also a reminder of how things used to be. With the last of our six children going off to college this Fall, I sometimes need to... Catholic Culture.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2031152/posts#comment Sat, 14 Jun 2008 20:22:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2013237/posts MARRIAGE is a constant source of joy, but introducing children into the relationship will send your happiness in a downward spiral, a conference has been told. [...] The more kids you had, the sadder you were likely to be, [Harvard psychology professor Daniel] Gilbert said. US and European studies had shown that people's happiness did spike while they were expecting a baby but sharply plummeted after the child was born. The low point came when children reached the ages of 12-16, and recovered only when they had flown the coop, he said. "In reality ... children do seem to increase... News.com.au http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2013237/posts#comment Thu, 8 May 2008 21:13:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1977760/posts On Wednesday a full transcript of Democrat presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama’s July 2007 speech to the Planned Parenthood Action Fund in which he vigorously defended legalized abortion became available. In the July 17 speech, Obama attacked the Supreme Court decision that upheld the federal partial-birth abortion ban and the nomination of Supreme Court justices who favor overturning Roe v. Wade. In the speech the senator said, "There will always be people, many of goodwill, who do not share my view on the issue of choice. On this fundamental issue, I will not yield and Planned Parenthood will not yield."... Catholic News Agency http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1977760/posts#comment Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:39:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1939830/posts Being broke need not mean social death in Sweden - as long as you are well-educated. But for Americans and Russians having a good all-round education is no substitute for having cash, according to a new survey on status symbols in the three countries. The international survey by analysts United Minds asked 1,000 people in each country what values confer status. 'Bling' items such as expensive jewellery and designer clothes come well down the list for Swedes, while featuring more highly for Americans and, particularly, Russians. "Sweden is the only country where you can be penniless but well-read and still... www.thelocal.se http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1939830/posts#comment Sat, 15 Dec 2007 10:19:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1931930/posts Should Parents Be Allowed To Spank Their Children? (POLL) ESBT Television South Bend Indiana http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1931930/posts#comment Wed, 28 Nov 2007 22:39:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1916147/posts National antiabortion leaders put the finishing touches yesterday on a letter to be sent to all members of Congress, urging suspension of more than $300 million in federal funding of Planned Parenthood until a massive criminal case brought in Kansas against the abortion rights organization is settled. That launches an attack against the nation's largest purveyor of "reproductive health care" -- including abortions. On Oct. 17, Johnson County District Judge James F. Vano in suburban Kansas City spent eight hours reviewing a 107-count grand jury indictment against Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri. He decided there was "probable cause" to... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1916147/posts#comment Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:02:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1912694/posts A Planned Parenthood clinic was charged Wednesday with providing unlawful abortions and other crimes by a county prosecutor who had engaged in a high-profile battle with the clinic when he was Kansas attorney general. Johnson County District Attorney Phill Kline charged the Overland Park, Kan., clinic with 107 counts, 23 of them felonies. Besides 29 misdemeanor counts of providing unlawful late-term abortions, the clinic is charged with multiple counts of making a false writing, failure to maintain records and failure to determine viability. Case documents have been sealed, according to a court order. The first hearing is set for Nov.... AP via Breitbart http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1912694/posts#comment Wed, 17 Oct 2007 22:12:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1911540/posts Duquesne University has ordered WDUQ-FM to stop airing underwriter support messages from the reproductive rights and health-care education group Planned Parenthood. The National Public Radio affiliate and jazz station, which is based on the Duquesne University campus and operates under the university's 501(c)3 tax-exempt status, pulled the underwriting acknowledgement messages Thursday. "Planned Parenthood is not aligned with the university's Catholic mission and identity and legally, stations are not required to accept underwriting support," said Bridget Fare, Duquesne University spokeswoman Post Gazette http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1911540/posts#comment Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:56:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1750540/posts As a poor boy who became educated and semi-successful due to conservative values, I’m wondering what should I do to raise a 5 year old daughter and a 2 week old son. Human observation would tell me to open up a savings account for them, work hard and try to balance earning income while being a good husband and father figure. “Poor” values lead me to think that sex will never be the same and I should balance “Human Observation” with “Poor Values”. “Modern” values seem to be “Poor Values”. “Conservative” values seem to require that I have a responsibility... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1750540/posts#comment Fri, 8 Dec 2006 18:59:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1749077/posts NEWSWEEK some weeks back had an arresting picture on its cover. The famous photographer Annie Leibovitz--tall, blonde, and 57, dressed in black trousers and a black V-neck top--stands with her three young daughters: a radiant, curly haired 5-year-old and adorable blonde toddler twins. Leibovitz is holding one of the chubby twins on her hip. All four are gently smiling.  Inside the magazine, in the middle of the cover story, there appear, without further explanation, these two sentences about Leibovitz's family: "She gave birth as a single mother to her daughter Sarah just after 9/11. Then, a few months after... Weekly Standard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1749077/posts#comment Wed, 6 Dec 2006 02:50:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1745283/posts No, no, sorry. I don't have any . . ." Why does this always seem to be the first thing I'm asked? It takes my breath away, yet why do I feel the need to apologize for my reply? Looking vague and embarrassed, my questioner glances over my shoulder for someone else to talk to: someone with whom he or she has more in common, someone with children.... Just as some women talk of a visceral urge that propels them to have children, others speak of an equally visceral urge that propels them not to. Laurie, a transplanted southerner who... The Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1745283/posts#comment Tue, 28 Nov 2006 18:11:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1559123/posts ENCINITAS, January 16, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Many pro-life organizations use Christmas season sales of poinsettias to raise funds, but according to a US-based researcher, so do Planned Parenthood and other abortionists in the US. James Hartline, a Christian activist in California wrote to LifeSiteNews.com warning that the poinsettias decorating the churches and homes of Christians in the US could easily originate from a family-owned business that has been supporting abortion for decades. The Ecke Ranch in Encinitas, California, supplies 70% of all of the poinsettias sold in the United States and the Ecke family is among the most generous supporters... LifeSiteNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1559123/posts#comment Mon, 16 Jan 2006 21:17:21 GMT