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Taxpayers forced to subsidize Carhart's abortion business

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:00:00 -0700

Bellevue, NE, November 13, 2009/Operation Rescue --

The police department in Bellevue, Nebraska have announced that the city now pays nearly $1,000 to maintain security cameras at LeRoy Carhart's abortion clinic - money that is taken directly from the taxpayer coffers to spy on peaceful pro-life supporters.

"It is outrageous, at a time when Congress is in an uproar fighting abortion lobby efforts to use tax money to bail out failing abortion clinics, that the City of Bellevue would arbitrarily decide to force taxpayers to subsidize Carhart's abortion business," said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman. "If Carhart wants extra security, he should have to pay for it himself, just like everybody else."

Bellevue police Chief John W. Stacey attempted to justify the $970 per month tax-funded camera system by saying it was "handy."

"This is yet another example of the gross lack of judgment shown by the City of Bellevue, which continues to cater to Carhart's whims," said Newman.

In August, Bellevue police overreacted to a visit by Operation Rescue by putting up snow fences, blocking off streets, marching out the SWAT teams, and making wild and unsubstantiated claims in the media about anticipated violence.

"We tried to tell them that we only expected 20-50 peaceful supporters praying quietly on the sidewalk, but they were bent on making a tempest in a teapot. They blew everything out of proportion and in doing so, unnecessarily wasted thousands of dollars of taxpayer money. Now they are doing it again," said Newman.

Carhart is currently under investigation by the Nebraska Attorney General's office for illegal conduct alleged when former Carhart employees came forward and said that workers with no medical background routinely assisted with surgeries, started IVs, and dispensed medication without the proper credentials. The women told of unclean conditions at the clinic and that Carhart rarely if ever washed his hands between patients. They also indicated that drugs were often missing and believed that Carhart was, at times, chemically impaired while on duty.

"It might be a better use to tax dollars to have the spy-cams inside the abortion mill. They are more likely to catch someone breaking the law inside the clinic than outside it," said Newman.

"We encourage those who are outraged that taxpayers are subsidizing spy-cams at Carhart's abortion business to contact the Bellevue police and let their concerns be known."

Contact:
Chief of Police John W. Stacey
Voice: (402) 293-3105
E-mail: john.stacey@bellevue.net

Hodari files for divorce, puts another clinic up for sale

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:30:00 -0700

Detroit, MI, November 13, 2009/Operation Rescue --

Yesterday, troubled abortionist Alberto Hodari filed for divorce from his wife, Nancy.

It was also learned that Hodari's "going out of business" sale continues, with his Livonia abortion clinic now up for sale, along with his clinics in Southgate and Flint. It is believed that every commercial property Hodari owns is on the market, along with his collection of expensive classic cars.

The Hodari's have had a troubled marriage. Nancy filed for divorce in 2006, but dropped her effort to dissolve their marriage a few months later. Nancy identifies herself as an attorney, business owner, and fitness instructor. The Hodari's shared a sprawling mansion in an exclusive Bloomfield Hills, MI, neighborhood.

It is thought that Hodari may be liquidating his assets so that he can flee the country to avoid mounting legal problems.

Planned Parenthood and ACLU file lawsuit against Personhood Nevada

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:00:00 -0700

CARSON CITY, NV, November 13, 2009/Standard Newswire --

Planned Parenthood and the ACLU have filed a lawsuit against the sponsors of a Nevada ballot initiative defining the term "person."

The simple, one-sentence amendment states, "In the great state of Nevada, the term 'person' applies to every human being."

Blogger Emmily Bristol, the woman participating in the lawsuit, seems to admit on her blog that the measure is easy to understand. She claims, "It is designed to leave voters scratching their heads and saying, 'Well, duh, a person is a person.' "

"Exactly," answered Keith Mason of Personhood USA. "It's simple, easy to understand, and if even the folks behind the lawsuit can see that it's that simple, the voters shouldn't have any trouble. Every human being is a person. Period."

"Children in the womb today have fewer rights than dogs or cats," continued Mason. "Planned Parenthood, the ACLU, and Emmily Bristol are seeking to keep it that way."

Nevada's personhood amendment was filed on October 21, 2009. An amendment much like this one was introduced in Colorado and was found to be a single-subject issue. In 2007, Planned Parenthood and the ACLU teamed up to try to defeat the Colorado Personhood Amendment, but failed even up to the Colorado Supreme Court.

"This is clearly a single subject issue, easy to understand, and simply recognizes the rights of every human being," stated Keith Mason. "Planned Parenthood's lawsuit is not only stifling the people's right to a ballot initiative, but it appears desperate. Once personhood is properly recognized, Planned Parenthood stands to lose over a billion dollars in annual profit."

"This is now the third time that the ACLU and Planned Parenthood have ganged up to silence the voice of the people, and their right to ballot initiatives," concluded Mason. "In Colorado, they failed. They are trying to silence us, and to keep the vote away from the people. The citizens have a right to ballot initiatives, and human beings have a right to live."

Personhood USA is a grassroots Christian organization founded to establish personhood efforts across America to create protection for every child by love and by law. Personhood USA is committed to assisting and supporting Personhood Legislation and Constitutional Amendments and building local pro-life organizations through raising awareness of the personhood of the pre-born.

Renelique Gone Wild! Abortionist attacks NY reporter

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:39:33 -0700

NEW YORK, November 12, 2009/Christian Newswire --

A New York television news station has released a shocking expose in its "Shame, Shame Shame" segment on abortionist Pierre Renelique, whose Florida medical license was revoked for his part in a botched late-term abortion that resulted in a live birth and for falsifying medical records to hide the fact that the baby was born alive then intentionally killed.

The news reporter, Arnold Diaz, discovered that Renelique had moved to New York and is working at the Clinton Place Medical Center in the Bronx. A receptionist at that clinic insists that Renelique is not doing abortions there.

The Florida Medical Board forwarded their revocation order to the New York authorities for similar disciplinary action, but instead the board placed Renelique on supervised probation for two years.

Diaz is shown in the report jogging behind Renelique as the abortionist denies that he ever did anything wrong even though the reporter had the Florida disciplinary documents in hand.

At one point he turned and attacked Diaz, grabbing the microphone from his hand and slamming it into the street.

"The Florida Health Department got it right when it declared Renelique a danger to the public," said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman, who has been reporting on Renelique since 2006. "It is unconscionable that this man is allowed to continue the practice of medicine."

At another point in the interview Renelique told Diaz that he did not answer calls from the clinic for help when his late-term abortion patient was in labor because he had scheduled her for 2:00 and he insisted that he would do the abortion in his own time, not hers. But the woman delivered the baby early, prompting unlicensed abortion worker Belkis Gonzalez to cut the baby's cord with desk scissors, shove the struggling baby into a biohazard bag, and then conceal the body on the roof of the clinic. Gonzalez has been criminally charged in that case and is awaiting trial.

"We demand that the New York medical board to reopen Renelique's case and immediately revoke his license. A man with this kind of temper and lack of concern for women should not be allowed to touch a patient," said Newman. "We also want to thank Arnold Diaz for his amazing investigative reporting."

Fort. Hood Massacre - 14 people died

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:39:37 -0700

Major Nidal M. Hasan has been charged with the murders of thirteen people. Yet 14 people died on that bloody day. So why won't federal prosecutors charge the Muslim extremist with the death of the unborn child who was killed by Hasan as well?

It is a serious and legitimate question given the intentional effort of Hasan to kill as many as possible. The child was wanted by his mother and the child is a human being. The federal government also has a law on the books to address just this problem. Further the killer did not give the mom a choice. He just acted in the same way abortionists do. So prosecutors need is to look like they can file a case against this killer for destroying not only the adults but the child in the womb as well.

Anything less is cowardice.

Cross-posted: Jacubczyk on Life

Study: Chinese women with abortions have statistically significant 17% increased breast cancer risk

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:00:00 -0700

MEDIA ADVISORY, November 12, 2009/Christian Newswire --

Chinese researchers Peng Xing and his colleagues conducted a case-control study in Northeast China examining reproductive factors associated with subtypes of breast cancer. They found a statistically significant overall odds ratio of 1.17 (17% increased breast cancer risk for all subtypes combined) among women with induced abortions. [1]

Earlier this year, a Turkish study reported a statistically significant 66% increased risk for women with abortions. [2] Both studies show that, when honest research is conducted outside the control of the U.S. National Cancer Institute and other Western governmental agencies or organizations tethered to abortion ideology and politics, the truth emerges that abortion raises risk. Studies reporting no abortion- breast cancer (ABC) link were proven in medical journals to be stupendously flawed (fraudulent). [3-13]

"The Chinese and the Turkish studies are relevant considering the debate over government-funded abortion through healthcare reform," said Karen Malec, president of the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer. "Government-funded abortion means more dead American women from breast cancer."

American researchers say Chinese studies on the ABC link exclude the possibility of a flaw called "report bias" because abortion isn't stigmatized in China. [14] Communist officials forcibly abort women after first full term pregnancy (FFTP), so Chinese women are considered reliable reporters of their abortions.

Professor Joel Brind (Baruch College, City University of New York) maintains that Chinese studies underestimate the risk of abortion because of its high prevalence in China. Commentary

Xing et al. found an increase in risk associated with having more children (multiparity) among women who delayed FFTP and never breastfed. Commentary

Regarding breast cancer subtypes, the numbers of women within the subgroups are so small that no conclusions can be reached.

The Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer is an international women's organization founded to protect the health and save the lives of women by educating and providing information on abortion as a risk factor for breast cancer.

References can be viewed online at: www.abortionbreastcancer.com/press_releases/0911 11/index.htm

Clinics for Sale: abortionist Alberto Hodari liquidates assets

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:00:00 -0700

DETROIT, MI/November 12, 2009/Operation Rescue --

Troubled abortionist Alberto Hodari has put at least two of his abortion clinics up for sale - complete with equipment and furnishings - along with his collection of 13 classic cars in what appears to be an effort to liquidate his assets and leave the abortion business.

According to two sources, Hodari's actions may be a precursor to his leaving the country to avoid mounting legal problems and diminished reputation.

Last week, sidewalk counselor Jennifer Nelson got word to Operation Rescue that Hodari's Southgate abortion clinic was up for sale. Nelson said that the original asking price for the commercial medical space was $320,000 but has recently been reduced to $300,000. She added that Hodari has said he will continue to operate the clinics until a buyer can be found - no matter how long it takes.

Judy Climer of Flint Right to Life told OR that the "for sale" sign went up on Hodari's Flint abortion clinic this week. The large, barn-like metal building that houses the Flint abortion clinic also serves as a garage for Hodari's expensive classic car collection. Climer said that she recently spoke with a man outside the abortion clinic who told her he had "flown in" to take a look at the cars for the implied purpose of buying them.

Complaints filed with the Michigan Department of Community Health are pending and could result in substantial discipline or even license revocation. The complaint relates to the illegal dumping of private medical records discovered and reported by the Citizens for a Pro-Life Society. In February, 2009, Hodari was sentenced to 6 months probation on one criminal count of illegally disposing of abortion records. 11 other counts were dismissed.

Hodari, originally from Argentina, made headlines when CPLS discovered the remains of aborted babies along with patient medical records illegally dumped outside some of his six abortion mills. Hodari added to his notoriety when he told a group of students from Wayne State University that abortionists have a "license to lie" and that he does not wash his hands between patients to prevent his skin from chaffing. He also told reporters that even though he knows induction abortions to be dangerous, he still uses the late-term abortion procedure without regard to the welfare of his patients.

To add to his troubles, Climer said that a major lawsuit was filed against Hodari in Flint last June by an attorney with a reputation for only taking cases with the potential for large monetary awards.

Hodari also faces an additional complaint against his medical license for a forced abortion on a 16-year old girl who was the victim of unreported statutory rape. In February, the victim, Jennifer McCoy told Operation Rescue that Hodari tricked her into an unwanted abortion under the pretense of performing a routine obstetrical examination, then returned her to the man who had been sexually abusing her. She recently filed a complaint against Hodari with the Michigan Department of Community Health, which is still pending.

Hodari further raised eyebrows in July when he was fined only $10k for his responsibility in the death of Regina Johnson. Hodari has been involved in the deaths of at least three additional women since 2004.

"We pray that Hodari quickly finds a buyer for his clinics that will use the property for life-affirming endeavors," said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman. "The quicker he is closed down the better."

The Veteran and the Post Abortive Woman

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:11:54 -0700

I always wondered why in my adult years I seemed to be drawn to the men and women who had been in the war and especially those who would tell me stories expressing their post traumatic stress. I would come to an event or a meeting and always seem to find the one table next to the VFW or the row with the seat next to the guy struggling with flashbacks. I was the one always in the corner talking to the man with the cigarette and flags pinned from his vest. I am the woman who will stop on the street and chat with the homeless vet giving him a coffee. We have a certain knowingness and familiarity with each other.

When the man would talk about his feelings of isolation, despair, flashbacks and struggles of bursts of anger or crying fits, I just got it. They would talk about their inability to sleep or the dreams and nightmares when they did sleep. I would shake my head with an understanding that to them probably seemed to come from nowhere. But to me was a deep and vivid understanding that I didn't feel comfortable conveying to them at the time.

One of my friends had been to Vietnam.... He didn't have to be drafted. He volunteered for a tour in Viet Nam. He was a proud American and wanted to serve his country. He believed in the cause of freedom. He was told he would be fine coming back and would have the support of the government and American people. He wanted to finish school, build a house and get a stable job. His dreams were to have a simple, happy and peaceful life after the war. It didn't turn out that way. He couldn't sleep and had trouble focusing for a job or school.

The first time I gave my abortion testimony was in front of a crowd of 2000 people at a mega church. I had spent years working through my feelings of guilt, despair, shame, anger and isolation. I had overcome my nightmares and tendencies toward suicide. I had been washed clean through Jesus. And I had been prompted by the Holy Spirit to tell my story. I was just about to release my book TO BE A MOTHER. And yet this was the first time I was telling my story in public. I talked about keeping my secret. I talked about wanting to die. I talked about feeling deceived by the government for having a law that legalized my choice. I talked about being lied to by the women's movement and not having been aware of the feelings of despair, anger, confusion and pain post abortion. Following the service, the pastor asked me to remain to help the prayer team in the event my testimony hit a nerve with some people.

I was surprised when the first person that approached me was a man with long gray hair and a cane. He had tears in his eyes and said "thank you for your testimony. I was in Vietnam as a soldier. I know about all of your feelings and want you to know that I will pray for you. Thanks for sharing." I think it was this experience and frank conversation with this man that followed that made me aware of the true similarities between veterans experiencing post traumatic stress and the woman experiencing post abortion syndrome. I am always surprised when something to this day triggers my experience of abortion even 27 years after the fact.

The worst part for us women who experience the syndrome is that those who advocated for our choice and the American Psychological Association deny a link to abortion and post traumatic stress. They often say that those of us who experience the symptoms had them prior to the abortion. And although they say that a fire, accident, sexual assault, earthquake, robbery, will trigger the syndrome, having a baby violently ripped from your womb should have no psychological effects on a woman who is of sound mind. Sort of like being encouraged to go into battle and then when you come off saying 'this hurts' your leaders says to you "oh you had that deep wound before you stepped into the battle."

My friend was of sound mind when he went off to Vietnam too. Things changed. I also changed from a happy girl singing in the sun to a woman who found it difficult to pull up the shades for years. But let's say that it is as the pro-choice organizations say 'women who suffer adverse psychological after effects most likely had issues to begin with." Why is there no warning or informed consent required? Why would they allow a woman with a history of depression to abort? Why do they still prescribe abortion to a woman traumatized already from rape? If an abortion on top of a pre-existing trauma will push them into this reaction of contemplating suicide then wouldn't abortion for rape or the chronically depressed be the last thing the woman needs?....

My friend is a psychologist that believes post abortion syndrome exists and yet is forced to code the insurance claims as POST TRAUMATIC STRESS. She has to find a car accident or fire or earthquake in her patient's past that is acceptable to the insurance companies because the abortion that her client experienced and witnessed of her 18 week old baby, accidentally seeing the body parts is not covered. Or the woman given the abortion pill, told to go home to "extract" the baby, sitting on the toilet with an arm of her baby in toilet paper, is only in despair because of some pre-existing condition? If a tornado can place you into post traumatic stress, certainly looking at the remains of your baby in the toilet can trigger a trauma as well....

I pray for the day when we can all be truly informed for what stands ahead of us as we walk into our choices as women too. Our babies are never our enemies. They are our blessings. Abortion not only kills a human being but it can destroy a woman too. I don't care how many studies the APA denounces. I am a soldier living in the battlefield that is covered with women wounded by abortion. I don't appreciate having to be there to offer only first aid when we need our medics to perform surgery. But it looks like the hands are tied because how do you fix a problem that doesn't officially exist on paper? In the meantime, those of us that have been able to find the way off of the battlefield covered in carnage, will have to be the ones to carry our sisters off the field...

Please read this article in its entirety at: http://www.motherhoodinrealtime.com

SYMPTOMS OF POST ABORTION STRESS
Post Traumatic Syndrome

Study finds high rate of RU486 abortion complications

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:00:00 -0700

Randall K. O'Bannon, Ph.D., NRL-ETF Director of Education & Research
November 11, 2009/National Right to Life --

Planned Parenthood says "Our monitoring shows that mifepristone medication abortion continues to be a safe abortion option." The distributor of Mifeprex (the trade name for RU486) says that "Mifeprex is 92-95% effective for safely ending early pregnancy."

But a new study from Finland says that 20% of the women using the abortion pill suffer at least one significant complication. Nearly 4% reported two or more complications or "adverse events."

The study, "Immediate Complications After Medical Compared with Surgical Termination of Pregnancy," appeared in the October 2009 issue of the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology. A team of Finnish Researchers headed by Maarit Niinimäki of the Oulu University Hospital looked at all abortions, surgical and chemical, performed up to 63 days after gestation, in Finland between January 1, 2000 and December 31, 2006.

To identify and tally the complications, researchers looked at all abortion patient inpatient and outpatient visits occurring within 42 days after the abortion. A national health records system enables researchers to track the medical outcomes with individual patients over time.

Researchers found that 15.6 % percent of those undergoing chemical abortions hemorrhaged, 1.7% encountered infection, and 6.7% had incomplete abortions.

Planned Parenthood injunction request fails; former clinic director scores victory in court

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:08:02 -0700

BRYAN, TX, November 10, 2009/Christian Newswire --

"I am gratified that Planned Parenthood has failed in its misguided effort to silence its former clinic director in Bryan/College Station, Texas, who experienced a spiritual conversion after witnessing an abortion and is now pro-life," said David Bereit, national director of 40 Days for Life.

A district court judge denied a request for an injunction against Abby Johnson, who resigned as director of a Planned Parenthood of Houston and Southeast Texas abortion facility in Bryan/College Station last month. The judge also denied a similar request directed at the Coalition for Life, the local pro-life organization that started the 40 Days for Life campaign in Bryan/College Station five years ago.

According to news reports, Judge J.D. Langley said Planned Parenthood did not offer convincing reasons "to warrant the extreme remedy of injunctive relief." Planned Parenthood had initiated the court action to block disclosure of confidential information about patients, which is something Johnson said she had never intended to do.

Johnson was very pleased with the court's decision, which opens the door for her to offer more specifics about her work at Planned Parenthood and the reasons she resigned. After watching an abortion procedure on an ultrasound machine, she had a change of heart about abortion and was unable to continue working at the clinic.

Since her departure from Planned Parenthood, Johnson's story has received major media attention at a time when abortion has become the central issue in the national debate over healthcare reform. "The truth about abortion that Abby witnessed on an ultrasound machine at Planned Parenthood underscores the fact that abortion is not health care, and it should not be funded in any way by the government," said Bereit.

Johnson was mentioned by name during Saturday's U.S. House debate over an amendment that was designed to limit taxpayer funding of abortions. In remarks on the House floor, Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) said, "Self-described as 'extremely pro-choice,' but now pro-life, Abby Johnson said she watched an unborn child 'crumple' before her very eyes as the infant was vacuumed and dismembered by a suction device 20-30 times more powerful than a household vacuum cleaner. 'I could see the baby try to move away ... I just thought what am I doing ... never again.'"

Since her resignation from Planned Parenthood, Johnson has spoken on behalf of 40 Days for Life and has even joined the 40 Days for Life volunteers outside her former place of employment to pray for an end to abortion.

Illegal back-alley abortionist opens risky late-term abortion mill

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:00:00 -0700

Dallas, TX/November 10, 2009/Operation Rescue --

An abortionist who admits to having committed illegal, back alley abortions prior to Roe v. Wade has announced plans to open a new late-term abortion clinic in Dallas last month. Curtis Boyd, 72, told a pro-abortion Internet site that he was committing illegal abortions on January 22, 1973, when the Roe v. Wade decision was announced.

"This is a case where an illegal back alley abortion hack simply hung the 'open' sign out on the front door and kept on with his grisly business," said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman. "Now, at 72 years old, he wants to do the more dangerous late-term abortions. This is a recipe for disaster if I ever saw one."

Boyd shocked America by confessing to a Dallas television reporter that he believes that abortion is killing.

"Am I killing?" Boyd said. "Yes, I am. I know that."

Boyd is a backslidden ordained Baptist minister who now identifies with the apostate Unitarian Universalist "Church" whose doctrine is antithetical to orthodox Christianity.

"It was ironic that during the recent debate on abortion funding in the proposed health care system that several abortion supporters in the House rose to say that without taxpayer funding of abortion, we would return to the days of back alley abortions. Unfortunately, we never left those days," said Newman.

"Some of the same quacks, including Boyd, that were doing illegal abortions before Roe v. Wade are still operating. Little has changed. Women continue to be maimed and killed in our nation's abortion clinics. Just ask the families of Laura Hope Smith or Christin Gilbert, who were killed recently during so-called legal abortions. The only real solution is to grant the legal protections of personhood to the pre-born and close down the killing centers for good."

Senator and SBA List stress need for Stupak language

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:00:00 -0700

WASHINGTON, November 9, 2009/Christian Newswire --

Today a spokesman for Senator Ben Nelson (D-NE) told POLITICO that he would only support a health care reform bill that excludes abortion coverage in a manner similar to the Pitts-Stupak language included in the House version. Susan B. Anthony List President Marjorie Dannenfelser offered the following statement:

Senator Reid should take his cues from the House and pro-life members of his own caucus when crafting abortion language in the Senate health care reform bill. What Senator Nelson and many others recognize is that the Stupak language is the only authentic abortion exclusion measure.

Given President Obama's record and his promises to the abortion lobby, it is a safe assumption that he will support abortion-friendly language under the guise of 'compromise.' Despite his rhetoric, there is just simply no room for compromise when human life is at stake. Either you fund abortion or you don't.

We've already seen phony compromises like the Capps Amendment offered by abortion advocates. These accounting gimmicks are not acceptable. American taxpayers demand safeguards that will ensure not one dime of federal funds will subsidize abortion or health plans that cover abortion. The Senate should respect this status quo, precedent set under the Hyde Amendment.

This afternoon President Obama told Jake Tapper of ABC News, he was confident that the final legislation will ensure that "neither side feels that it's being betrayed." He continued, "I want to make sure that the provision that emerges meets that test -- that we are not in some way sneaking in funding for abortions, but, on the other hand, that we're not restricting women's insurance choices."

For the last several months, the Susan B. Anthony List has mobilized tens of thousands of pro-life Americans nationwide to urge Congress to exclude abortion from healthcare reform. Susan B. Anthony List activists have sent over 400,000 letters to Congress requesting an explicit exclusion of abortion from health care reform.

The Susan B. Anthony List is a nationwide network of Americans, over 167,000 residing in all 50 states, dedicated to mobilizing, advancing, and representing pro-life women in politics. Its connected Candidate Fund increases the percentage of pro-life women in the political process.

NRLC responds to Obama statement on Stupak-Pitts Amendment

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:41:34 -0700

WASHINGTON/November 9, 2009 --

ABC News reports the following comments by President Obama today regarding the Stupak-Pitts Amendment that was added to the health care bill by the House of Representatives on November 7:

"I laid out a very simple principle, which is this is a health care bill, not an abortion bill," President Obama said. "And we're not looking to change what is the principle that has been in place for a very long time, which is federal dollars are not used to subsidize abortions." Saying the bill cannot change the status quo regarding the ban on federally funding abortions, the President said "there are strong feelings on both sides" about an amendment passed on Saturday and added to the legislation, "and what that tells me is that there needs to be some more work before we get to the point where we're not changing the status quo."

Regarding the president's remarks, the following comment may be attributed to Douglas Johnson, legislative director for the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC):

The only thing that will prevent the health care bill from being 'an abortion bill' is precisely the Stupak-Pitts Amendment, as the House of Representatives recognized by a 46-vote margin. The phoniness of Obama's claim that he has been trying to preserve the 'status quo' on abortion policy should be evident to any observer by now. In reality, the White House and top Democratic congressional leaders have been working hard to create a national federal government health plan that would fund abortion on demand, just as Obama promised Planned Parenthood.

In an email alert distributed on Sunday, November 8, the Planned Parenthood Action Fund said, "President Obama campaigned on a promise to put reproductive health care at the center of his reform plan." The alert urged Planned Parenthood supporters to send Obama emails saying, "Now it's time for you to make good on that commitment."

To see a short video clip of Obama making that promise, before the Planned Parenthood Action Fund on July 17, 2007, click here. On that occasion, Obama said:

Well, look, in my mind reproductive care is essential care. It is basic care. And so it is at the center and at the heart of the plan that I propose. . . . Essentially, what we're doing is to say that we're going to set up a public plan that all persons and all women can access if they don't have health insurance. It'll be a plan that will provide all essential services, including reproductive services.

To view a September 11, 2009 examination by PolitiFact.com on the meaning of Obama's 2007 statement, click here. Today, PolitiFact.com reviewed a November 7 claim by U.S. House pro-abortion leader Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY) that the Stupak-Pitts Amendment "puts new restrictions on women's access to abortion coverage in the private health insurance market even when they would pay premiums with their own money," and concluded that Lowey's claim is "FALSE." Read it here.

An archive of NRLC letters to Congress and other documents regarding the abortion-related components of the health care legislation are posted here.

The National Right to Life Committee, the nation's largest pro-life group, is a federation of affiliates in all 50 states and 3,000 local chapters nationwide.

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Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:34:31 -0700

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Americans United for Life Action applauds passage of pro-life amendment

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:07:37 -0700

WASHINGTON, November 7, 2009/Christian Newswire --

In a vote of 240-194, the Stupak-Ellsworth-Pitts-Kaptur-Dahlkemper-Lipinski-Smith Amendment to prohibit abortion mandates and funding in HR 3962 passed on the House floor.

Americans United for Life Action President and CEO Dr. Charmaine Yoest said, "The passage of this amendment is a victory for the pro-life Americans across this country who have flooded Congress this week with the message that abortion does not belong in health care. The bipartisan effort that led to its passage, under the leadership of Congressmen Bart Stupak and Joe Pitts, is a step toward a future where both political parties defend Life."

"One victory however does not mean the battle is won," Dr. Yoest continued. "We are deeply concerned by the rhetoric we heard today from Democratic leadership indicating an intention to subvert the bipartisan pro-life majority. We will remain vigilant in watching the final language of the Senate bill to ensure that pro-life protections remain in the final health care reform bill."

Americans United for Life also released an analysis expressing concerns over provisions in the health care reform bill, including those dealing with end of life and right of conscience issues.