Planned Parenthood Forgets the Lesson of Pinocchio

Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood, appeared on CNN's Headline News channel, protesting the def-funding of her organization, stating that this would "prevent it from providing women with mammogram services." Now, a media watchdog group is calling on CNN to set the straight, regarding Ms. Richard's statement, which has since been proven false by the pro-life group, Live Action.

Live Action released videotaped footage revealing 30 calls made to Planned Parenthood centers in 27 different states, where the abortion facility staff was asked if a mammogram could be performed on their site. The response from every one of the abortion facilities, without exception, was that they could not do mammograms, and that the women would have to go elsewhere to obtain one. I guess Cecile Richards mother never read her the story about Pinocchio; the story of the little wooden puppet, who had to learn the benefits of truthfulness, and the consequences of telling lies. The abortion industry is riddled with lies, that totally eclipse the prevarication of the little wooden head.

Live Action has presented their findings to CNN Headline News (HLN) offering them the opportunity to show true journalistic integrity. How will HLN respond? We don't yet know. But, Planned Parenthood's response to the expose has been to attack Live Action, while conveniently avoiding the mammogram issue, claiming it is a false charge. Planned Parenthood stated that their abortion business provides a wide range of preventive health care services to millions of women. Well, while, we know that millions of women have had multiple abortions at their facilities, we still know very little of how many other services are obtained through their organization. Apparently mammograms aren't one of those services. And apparently being truthful to the women they profess to serve, is also not one of the benefits they provide. Pinocchio's nose has nothing on Planned Parenthood's proboscis.

Nazi Starvation Bunker Here in US - We Remember Terri Schiavo's Death

In the death camps of 1930's Nazi Germany, one of the cruelest forms of execution preferred by Nazi torturers, was the "Starvation Bunkers". Prisoners feared this form of execution more than hanging or facing a firing squad, as it dealt a much slower and far more torturous form of death. Prisoners knew that death in the starvation bunkers could take up to two weeks, while they slowly suffered the excruciating and maddening effects of starvation and dehydration.

Fast forward to six years ago here in the United States, on March 30th, 2005, when Terri Schiavo died from court-ordered dehydration and starvation. Many, including the major media claimed, that death by dehydration and starvation is painless. Here are just a few quotes from our friends for Life, the New York Times: "They generally slip into a peaceful coma. It's very quiet, it's very dignified, it's very gentle." The victims of the "Starvation Bunkers" in the Nazi death camps would vehemently disagree. They often went mad, screaming and cursing and drinking their own urine due to the excruciating effects caused by dying of thirst. And, if starvation is so peaceful and dignified, why are all the tearjerkers constantly concerned about the plight of famine victims? And in fact, if Terri Schiavo was not experiencing pain during her ordeal, why do court records reveal she received morphine?

The actual facts regarding her medical condition and it's causes are largely misunderstood. Terri was not terminally ill, nor was she brain-dead. She did not die a natural death from an illness or a disease. She was in fact, a young woman who suffered brain damage, the extent of which still remains unknown. Because of her disability, she was denied ordinary, necessary and available care - mainly her food and hydration. It's not exactly clear what caused Terri to collapse on February 25,1990. What is clear, is that the oxygen supply to her brain was cut off, leaving her permanently
brain damaged.

We know the denial of food and hydration is a biologically final act; no one lives without them. The Nazi's certainly knew this. Therefore, the decision to remove her food and hydration and allow her to die, was in fact, euthanasia. An interesting fact is that Michael Schiavo,Terri's husband, received $700,000 for her ongoing medical care, from a malpractice suit, filed by Michael after Terri's collapse. This same jury also awarded Michael $300,000 for loss of companionship. In fact, Michael never used the $700,000 for Terri's medical care; instead he spent it on the legal fees to petition the court to remove her life support. He further refused antibiotics for any infection she might develop, or for any rehabilitation or physical therapy.

Interesting enough,Terri was not on a ventilator or any other high-tech life support system. Food and water were considered her only life support. Terri's parents were vehemently opposed to Michael and the court's decision to remove her food and hydration. In fact, they offered to assume full responsibility for their daughter. The battle over her care wound it's way through the court systems, and on February 11, 2000, a Judge Greer ruled, that in spite of no written advance directive wishing to forgo life support, her husband Michael could order all food and fluids withheld from Terri. Her parents appealed and a long legal case ensued.

The outcome, on March 8, 2005, in spite of every legal effort, the court ordered removal of her feeding tube and a ban on oral nutrition and hydration. Her hospital room became a starvation bunker. Thirteen days later Terri died. It was a slow cruel death. In a culture of death, law is divorced from humanity, and we are all victimized in the process.

Ellen McCormack RIP

1976 Pro-life Democratic Presidential Candidate passes on...

Michael J. New at National Review On-Line has the story:

This past Sunday, longtime pro-life activist Ellen McCormack passed away. Since the pro-life movement often devotes little attention to its own history, her name may be unfamiliar to many young pro-lifers.

However, pro-lifers of a slightly older generation will remember her as one of the most famous pro-life activists of the 1970s. McCormack was a wife, mother, homemaker, and a pro-life activist. She got her start in politics in New York, which was a hotbed of pro-life activism when it became among the first states to legalize abortion in 1970.

McCormack is most well known for running for the Democratic party’s nomination for president in 1976 on a pro-life platform. Her story is chronicled in Professor Jane Gilroy’s recent book A Shared Vision.

Throughout her campaign, McCormack had little money, name recognition, or media coverage. However, she still received more votes than better known, better funded Democratic presidential candidates in a number of primaries and caucuses.

McCormack became the first female presidential candidate to qualify for federal matching funds and her campaign commercials which focused on pro-life issues reached tens of millions of voters. She received three delegates and received a nominating speech and a seconding speech at the Democratic National Convention that summer. Her campaign educated many about abortion and demonstrated that there was a sizeable contingent of Democrats who were willing to support a single-issue pro-life candidate.

Pro-life pioneers like Ellen McCormack deserve credit for the gains the pro-life movement has made in recent years. In its early years, the pro-life movement was very short on resources and received precious little attention from the mainstream media. As such, it was up to articulate volunteers and single-issue candidates like EllenMcCormack to keep voters informed.

Furthermore, McCormack’s campaigns raised the salience of sanctity of life issues and gave countless campaign workers valuable experience. McCormack went on to run for lieutenant governor of New York in 1978 and for president as a single-issue pro-life candidate in 1980. Her steadfast devotion to the pro-life cause will be missed. RIP.

It's hard to imagine today that anyone might run for the Democratic nomination for President on a pro-life platform. I can only imagine the abuse they'd receive. Today, the Democrats are at least as wedded to abortion as they once were to slavery.

Planned Parenthood Lies

Quelle Surprise...

(H/T: Illinois Review.)

If this bill ever become law, perhaps they will no longer be able to afford to spend hundreds of millions of dollars of our own money to lie to us! Defund.

Thank you, Congressman Joe Walsh, for supporting the Pence Amendment!

(Cross-posted from Thoughts of a Regular Guy.)

Campbell Soup drops ties with corporation that uses fetal tissue to test flavors

from Catholic Culture.com

Campbell Soup drops ties with corporation that uses fetal tissue to test flavors

March 30, 2011

The Campbell Soup company has severed its business ties with a California corporation that uses cells from aborted children to test artificial flavors.

Following revelations that Senomyx Corporation uses fetal tissue as part of its testing procedure, Campbell Soup announced: "We are no longer in partnership with Senomyx."

Source(s): these links will take you to other sites, in a new window.

• Update (Children of God for Life)
• US firm uses aborted fetal cells to test artificial food flavors (CWN 3/29)

It Never Stops Getting Worse

A few hundred years ago, if you wanted a miracle cure for ailed you, or just a really nifty new hair tonic, you might buy something made from ground up ancient Egyptian mummies. Seriously:

From the 1100s until opinions changed in the 1700s, powdered or chopped up pieces of a mummy were considered a cure for many different health problems, including diseases, poisoning, open wounds, and even broken bones. Mixed with other ingredients or used straight, mummy medicine became a popular drug in the West. King Francis I of France even took powdered mummy with rhubarb daily.

When Egyptian mummies became hard to acquire, a new market for the dearly departed opened up. Merchants substituted the corpses of slaves and others, “embalming” the bodies themselves and marketing them as genuine mummies.

"Mummy Brown" or “Egyptian Brown” was a paint composed of powdered mummy. Most often used in watercolor and oil painting during the 1500s and 1600s, artists enjoyed its pleasing color and texture although it was prone to cracking. Mummy Brown abruptly fell out of use in the 1800s after its gruesome composition became known.

In Britain during the 1830s and 1840s, mummy “unwrapping” parties were popular. Tourists traveling to Egypt would bring back a mummy and invite friends over to witness the unwrapping of the mummy, followed by refreshments. Victorians also found it interesting to keep the hand or foot of a mummy as a display piece ... accounts include mummies used as firewood by travelers and the export of mummified cats to Europe as fertilizer in the 1800s.

Today, of course, we are too refined to use mummies for such mundane purposes. Instead, we use aborted fetuses to make flavor enhancers in our food:

A pro-life group that monitors the use of cells from babies victimized by abortions is today highlighting a biotech company, Senomyx, which it says produces artificial flavor enhancers using aborted fetal cell lines to test their products.

The group Children of God for Life is calling for a public boycott of major food companies partnering with Senomyx.

Debi Vinnedge, the director of the pro-life organization, tells LifeNews.com today that, in 2010, her group wrote to Senomyx CEO Kent Snyder and pointed out that moral options for testing their food additives could and should be used. But when Senomyx ignored her letter, the group wrote to the companies Senomyx listed on their website as “collaborators” warning them of public backlash and threatened boycott. They included food giants PepsiCo, Kraft Foods, Campbell Soup, Solae and Nestlé. (See update below.)

“The company’s key flavor programs focus on the discovery and development of savory, sweet and salt flavor ingredients that are intended to allow for the reduction of MSG, sugar and salt in food and beverage products,” the Senomyx web site says. “Using isolated human taste receptors, we created proprietary taste receptor-based assay systems that provide a biochemical or electronic readout when a flavor ingredient interacts with the receptor.”

... “What they don’t tell the public is that they are using HEK 293 – human embryonic kidney cells taken from an electively aborted baby to produce those receptors,” she said. “They could have easily chosen animal, insect, or other morally obtained human cells expressing the G protein for taste receptors.”

Vinnedge says she has contacted the food companies working with Senomyx, but said it took three letters before one company, Nestlé, finally admitted its relationship with Senomyx and company officials claimed the line of cells from abortions was “well established in scientific research”.

Both PepsiCo and Campbell Soup also responded.

PepsiCo wrote: “We hope you are reassured to learn that our collaboration with Senomyx is strictly limited to creating lower-calorie, great-tasting beverages for consumers. This will help us achieve our commitment to reduce added sugar per serving by 25% in key brands in key markets over the next decade and ultimately help people live healthier lives.”

Campbell Soup officials told the pro-life group: “Every effort is made to use the finest ingredients and develop the greatest selection of products, all at a great value. With this in mind, it must be said that the trust we have cultivated and developed over the years with our consumers is not worth compromising to cut costs or increase profit margins.”

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UPDATE: Within hours of its press statement to LifeNews.com, the pro-life group received notice from Campbell Soup that the company has severed its ties with Senomyx. Juli Mandel Sloves, Senior Manager of Nutrition & Wellness Communications at Campbell Soup Company, told Vinnedge, “We are no longer in partnership with Senomyx. This fact was discussed during the Senomyx conference call with its investors earlier this month.”

Don't mistake: now that abortion on demand is legal through all nine months of pregnancy, the goal is to involve you in abortion, directly or indirectly, with or with your knowledge or assent, and as deeply as possible.

Who'se Winning? What's the Score?

The 40 Days for Life Campaign is doing everything right. Yet, one of their coordinators received, what she describes, as "a very friendly courtesy call from the FBI." The agent reported that the Whole Woman's Health abortion center in Austin Texas, had made several complaints about peaceful citizens, praying in front of their abortion clinic. What an outrage! Imagine people praying in front of an abortion clinic.

The abortion center's complaint is, according to a 40 Day for Life coordinator, "just the type of confirmation that we always pray for. We now know how much of an impact we are having on their clients, their abortion numbers and on their workers." The coordinator goes on, "Thank God for the work He is doing inside of that abortion clinic. Our presence is working."

The reason why the FBI called, is because the pro-life group, Operation Rescue conducted a wide-ranging investigation and found that numerous abortion centers, staff and abortion practitioners were evading Texas laws. Some of these infractions include, illegal dumping of patient's records (this is a federal offense against the HIPPA Law), covering up possible sexual abuse of minors, and aiding minors to avoid the Texas parental involvement law. The worst offender, believe it or not, was the Whole Woman's Health center, which operates five abortion facilities in Texas.

So score 1 for prayer, score 2 for peaceful witness and score 3 for God's reward for faithfulness. Score 0 for Woman's Health Center.

Baby Dies On Rooftop - Cause of Death?

OJ Simpson - remember him - has nothing on Miami, Florida, where two felony charges were recently dropped against an unlicensed abortion clinic worker, Belkis Gonzalez. Gonzalez was accused of taking an infant, who was born alive from an incomplete abortion, stuffing it in a bag, and taking it up to the roof of the clinic, where it was cruelly left to slowly die. Unfortunately, prosecutors were left without any kind of a case, when the doctors who were scheduled to testify against Gonzalez, changed their opinions on the matter.

The unidentified owner of the famous black glove, in the OJ Simpson murder trial, is trivial evidence, compared to a baby in a bag, left to die of exposure on a rooftop. And in this case, the defendant herself, was the one accused of evidence tampering - that evidence being the poor helpless infant in a bag. The last moments on this earth, of this tiny human, ripped from the security of it's mother's womb and thrown into a bag, we can only imagine with tears in our eyes. Though it seems there were no tears in the eyes of Belkis Gonzalez, as she cut the umbilical cord of the live girl infant, shoved her into a bio-hazard bag, then tossed her little helpless body onto the roof of the clinic, in order to hide the evidence from authorities. A bit more tricky than disposing of a bloody glove, wouldn't ya think?

Gonzalez was also charged with the unlicensed practice of medicine, along with the evidence tampering charge. Ed Griffith, spokesman for the Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office, said, "Everyone wants to use common sense. There was no common sense involved in this case." Common sense? What common sense is there here to begin with? This is the whole problem with the abortion issue! How do you make sense out of any of it? Had the abortion gone as planned, the baby would have been delivered DOA, and none of this would have been an issue. The criteria for defining a human being, from the pro-choice perspective, is the most nonsensical of all. A human being is an object of choice one moment - a murder victim the next. Based on what? What changes the status of a person's identity, from one moment to the next? Is breathing outside the womb the only criteria that defines a human being?

This case evoked outrage from the pro-life community, as well as, the Florida legislature. Senior Policy Advisor for Operation Rescue, Cheryll Sullenger stated, "We spoke with both the Hialeah police and the prosecutor's office in this case numerous times. The police indicated to us that they wanted Gonzalez charged with a homicide, but prosecutors dragged their feet every inch of the way." She went on to say, "When abortion is involved, it can be very difficult to get justice because of a political climate that seeks to protect abortionists at any cost. That is beginning to change, but this case illustrates that there is still a long way to go."

The mother named her baby girl Shanice, and expressing remorse for attempting to abort her child, has now filed a civil suit against those responsible. Those responsible? The question here is, was this baby killed by putting it in a bag on a roof, or was it killed by abortion?

Abby Johnson's New Video from the SBA List

(H/T:  Creative Minority Report)

Kids Being Kids

From one of my favorite blogs, Shoved to Them relates a story about her unborn baby's first encounter with a big brother:

I had my monthly OB appointment yesterday with my midwife. This time, I took the 4 youngest Little Kids with me. The eldest was off doing some kind of Irish dance performance or something with her two best friends. She missed seeing #6. We didn't. Lucky us!

#5 freaked out a bit in the exam room. He doesn't like "new", and was on the verge of tears the entire time. I tried to explain that she was the nice lady who delivered him, and that it would be okay. He's 23 months old and didn't seem to care. I finally sat him up on the exam table next to me and he calmed down a bit...

Then came the midwife with the ultrasound machine. (Hooray!) The children all piled around me to get their first peek at our littlest one.

It was clearly sleeping. Nestled in peacefully and curled up in the fetal position. Then the machine beeped and #5 screamed.

#6 threw its arms wide in the classic infant startle. Then, the little hands flew instinctively up to cover the ears from a big brother's offensive racket.

The little face turned towards the direction of the crying brother, and it's mouth opened slightly. Then, its chin began to quiver. Clearly, obviously crying.

Awakened from a nap, scared, and disturbed, our sweet #6 cried. Undeniably sobbed while holding hands tightly over tiny ears.

We all laughed at the sweet humanity of the moment which only made my two babies cry harder. 17 weeks into pregnancy. Barely 4 months. Hearing. Responding. Displaying emotion. Reacting logically. A blob of tissue? Product of conception? No. Thinking, feeling, emoting. Human.