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More lies from the Progressive Movement

Another Planned Parenthood under-cover sting:

A team of activists whose undercover videos revealed Planned Parenthood employees advising patients to lie to a judge and ignoring apparent cases of statutory rape has launched a project to uncover lies told to the patients.

The new Rosa Acuna Project led by Lila Rose at Live Action.org  unveiled today its first undercover video revealing counselors and an abortionist in Wisconsin apparently misleading a potential patient.

The video, according to Live Action, reveals "clinic staff, including the abortion doctor, lying to two young women about fetal development":

In the video, two women ask an abortion business counselor if a pregnant woman's 10-week-old unborn child has a heartbeat. The counselor informs them it is "heart tones."

"Heartbeat is when the fetus is active in the uterus – can survive – which is about 17 or 18 weeks," she says.

However, Live Action said embryologists confirm that the heartbeat of an unborn child begins at about three weeks.

Planned Parenthood pushed abortions for profit

So much for Planned Parenthood's immoral sex education to lessen the need for abortion:

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."

Johnson, 29, said the Bryan, Texas, Planned Parenthood clinic performed surgical abortions every other Saturday, but it began expanding access to abortion to increase earnings.

"One of the ways they were able to up the number of patients that they saw was they started doing the RU-486 chemical abortions all throughout the week," she said.

RU-486 chemical abortions kill the lining of the uterus, cutting off oxygen and nutrients, resulting in the death of an unborn baby. Johnson said the chemical abortion costs the same as an early first-trimester abortion: between $505 and $695 for each procedure.

She told WND the clinic was experiencing financial difficulties due to the economic downturn.

"Abortion is the most lucrative part of Planned Parenthood's operations," she said. "Even though they're two separate corporations, all of the money goes into one pot. With the family planning corporation really suffering, they depend on the abortion corporation to balance their budget, help get them out of the hole and help make income for the company."

She continued, "They really wanted to increase the number of abortions so that they could increase their income."

Now Planned Parenthood has retaliated against Johnson, filing a restraining order against her because the clinic fears she may leak confidential information.

Obama misleads on Obamacare's abortion funding

Looks like we are back to which meaning of is is:

In a conference call with his supporters Wednesday evening, President Obama accused critics of his health care "reform" of spreading falsehoods when they claim the plan would result in "government funding of abortions."

"You've heard that this is all going to mean government funding of abortion. Not true," he told at least 140,000 people. "These are all fabrications that have been put out there in order to discourage people from meeting what I consider to be a core ethical and moral obligation – and that is that we look out for one another, that I am my brother's keeper and I am my sister's keeper. And on the wealthiest nation on earth right now, we are neglecting to live up to that call."

Douglas Johnson, legislative director for the National Right to Life Committee, or NRLC, said Obama brazenly misrepresented the abortion-related component of the health care legislation.

Johnson noted that according to the Capps-Waxman amendment passed by the House Energy and Commerce Committee on July 30, H.R. 3200 explicitly authorizes the government plan to cover all elective abortions.

"Obama apparently seeks to hide behind a technical distinction between tax funds and government-collected premiums," Johnson said in a statement. "But these are merely two types of public funds, collected and spent by government agencies. The Obama-backed legislation makes it explicitly clear that no citizen would be allowed to enroll in the government plan unless he or she is willing to give the federal agency an extra amount calculated to cover the cost of all elective abortions – this would not be optional. The abortionists would bill the federal government and would be paid by the federal government. These are public funds, and this is government funding of abortion."

Johnson noted that when Obama was a presidential candidate, he specifically pledged to Planned Parenthood that his plan would cover abortions in 2007. An NRLC video of that promise follows:

While some news outlets claim Obama has "backed off" his pledge in a July 21 interview with Katie Couric, Johnson said, the president simply avoided directly addressing his goal and stated, "we also have a tradition of, in this town, historically, of not financing abortions as part of government funded health care."

"It is true that there is such a tradition – which Obama has always opposed, and which the Obama-backed bill would shatter," Johnson said.

The White House "reality check" website has not addressed the issue of abortion coverage in Obama's health plan.

Obama's Organizing for America website quotes a false factcheck.org statement that "In fact, none of the health care overhaul measures that have made it through the committee level in Congress say that abortion will be covered."

NRLC has released an 11-page detailed explanation of provisions in pending health bills that would impact abortion policy.

Court ruling on South Dakota abortion laws

Here is a press releases from the Alpha Center regarding yesterday's court ruling:

Sioux Falls, SD, August 20, 2009 – The U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota issued its decision today, on a series of Summary Judgment Motions in the historic case of Planned Parenthood v. Rounds, Alpha Center et al.

For four years, Planned Parenthood, the State of South Dakota and the Intervenors, including Alpha Center in Sioux Falls, have litigated the constitutionality of South Dakota’s historic 2005 Abortion Informed Consent Law, which mandated certain written disclosures be provided to a pregnant mother considering an abortion, before a consent could be taken. The Intervenors are gratified that the Court correctly ruled in favor of the Intervenors and the State Defendants on the Human Being Disclosure.

THE HUMAN BEING DISCLOSURE

In June 2008, the Intervenors and the State Defendants won an appeal before an en banc panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals, reversing the District Court. The U.S. Court of Appeals held that the required disclosure that “an abortion will terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique, living human being” was a statement of fact and there was no evidence that it was not true and accurate. Today, the District Court entered Summary Judgment requiring Planned Parenthood to make the disclosure using the language of the Statute. The District Court ruled that the U.S. Court of Appeals had unequivocally held that the language of the Statute had to be used.

THE RELATIONSHIP DISCLOSURES

The District Court, while ruling to uphold most of the Statute, again committed error in striking down the “Relationship Disclosures.” The Statute requires the doctor to inform the pregnant mother “that the pregnant woman has an existing relationship with that unborn human being and that the relationship enjoys protection under the United States Constitution and under the laws of South Dakota.” The Statute also requires the disclosure that that protected relationship will be terminated by the abortion procedure.

We are completely confident that this aspect of the Court’s decision of today will be reversed on appeal.

This presents an important issue for the women of South Dakota and elsewhere. It is the utter devaluation and contempt by Planned Parenthood for the mother’s relationship and rights that has resulted in so many women losing children they would not have lost if they were properly counseled and sufficient respect for the mother’s rights were evidenced. We feel the appeal on this issue will be of particular importance for the women, but it will also provide the U.S. Supreme Court with the opportunity to clarify the ambiguous language of Roe v. Wade that has so confounded lower courts and confused the District Court in this case.

The disclosure involves the simple explanation that a second human being is already in existence, and that the unique relationship the pregnant woman has with that second human being enjoys legal protection under the U.S. Constitution and the laws of South Dakota. The Court confused the language in Roe v. Wade that spoke of constitutional rights with the language of the Statute that speaks of a relationship in fact.

We are confident the Intervenors and the State will succeed on appeal in both the U.S. Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court.

THE SUICIDE DISCLOSURES

The South Dakota Legislature concluded, based upon competent peer reviewed studies, that women who have an abortion are at greater risk for suicide ideation and suicide than women who carry their children to term. Today, the District Court made its own factual determination that it had no power to make on a Motion for Summary Judgment. Aside from the fact that the overwhelming majority of legitimate studies support the State required disclosures, the Court lacked the authority to overrule the State Legislature without a fact finding hearing.

We have every confidence that this error will be reversed on appeal.

PLANNED PARENTHOOD CONTINUES TO BREAK LAW TAPE REVEALS

Within the last 48 hours an audio tape has surfaced that reveals Planned Parenthood of Sioux Falls is in violation of this law, even after an 8th Circuit Court decision that said they must disclose to women that abortion terminates the life of a whole, separate, unique, living human being. Click here to listen to this shocking audio tape and hear what really happens when a woman calls to schedule an abortion in Sioux Falls.

Secrecy surrounds Planned Parenthood’s meeting with South Dakota

So much for transparency here:

Staff members of the South Dakota Department of Health and Planned Parenthood have met to discuss the proposed language in a disclosure form the clinic must use with women seeking abortions.

According to a statement from the department, details of last week’s meeting won’t be made public because the issue is part of the regulatory process.

The form was mandated as part of a 2005 law that requires the Sioux Falls Planned Parenthood clinic staff to tell women that abortion ends a human life.

Ginsberg, fix poverty by killing their babies

For those who can’t accept the pro-abortion movement’s comparison to Hitler, pay attention to Supreme court Judge Ruth Baser Ginsberg:

In an astonishing admission, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says she was under the impression that legalizing abortion with the 1973 Roe. v. Wade case would eliminate undesirable members of the populace, or as she put it "populations that we don't want to have too many of."

Her remarks, set to be published in the New York Times Magazine this Sunday but viewable online now, came in an in-depth interview with Emily Bazelon titled, "The Place of Women on the Court."

The 16-year veteran of the high court was asked if she were a lawyer again, what would she "want to accomplish as a future feminist legal agenda."

Ginsburg responded:

Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that had changed their abortion laws before Roe [to make abortion legal] are not going to change back. So we have a policy that affects only poor women, and it can never be otherwise, and I don't know why this hasn't been said more often.

Question: Are you talking about the distances women have to travel because in parts of the country, abortion is essentially unavailable, because there are so few doctors and clinics that do the procedure? And also, the lack of Medicaid for abortions for poor women?

Ginsburg: Yes, the ruling about that surprised me. [Harris v. McRae – in 1980 the court upheld the Hyde Amendment, which forbids the use of Medicaid for abortions.] Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of. So that Roe was going to be then set up for Medicaid funding for abortion. Which some people felt would risk coercing women into having abortions when they didn't really want them. But when the court decided McRae, the case came out the other way. And then I realized that my perception of it had been altogether wrong.

When pressed to explain what she meant by reproductive rights needing to be straightened out, Ginsburg said, "The basic thing is that the government has no business making that choice for a woman."

Will Obama bail out Planned Parenthood?

Is Planned Parenthood "too big to fail":

Seventy-two years ago Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger visited El Paso, Texas, delivered a speech proclaiming the need for the acceptance of birth control and helped found the city's first family planning clinic.

But last week, Analinda Moreno, Planned Parenthood of El Paso's interim executive director, announced all seven of the organization's clinics in the El Paso area would permanently close today. She cited financial reasons.

"There were many factors that came into the decision," Moreno told the El Paso Times. "We knew eight days ago that there was just absolutely no other way other than to close."

Rita Diller, national director of the American Life League's Stop Planned Parenthood project, was encouraged by the closings, and sees them as part of a larger trend.

"We expect many more closures in the days to come as people become aware of Planned Parenthood's sex-crazed birth control and abortion business," Diller said in a statement. "One by one, with hard work and prayer, these facilities are closing down, no matter how entrenched Planned Parenthood may seem to be in a particular community."

Planned Parenthood exposed

This is very disturbing:

Prosecutors in Arizona have been given a copy of the unedited video made by an undercover investigator who found Planned Parenthood workers apparently covering up a reported sexual abuse of a child.

The announcement comes from Live Action Films, whose president, Lila Rose, has been investigating Planned Parenthood policies and activities for several years.

Rose, a UCLA student, released a statement today that the "full, unedited footage" of her recent investigation into the Tucson Planned Parenthood clinic has been forwarded to the offices of the Arizona attorney general and the Pima County attorney.

"The tapes show Planned Parenthood covering up a reported case of sexual abuse of a 15-year-old girl, and were made public last week on the Live Action's website," the statement said.

WND reported earlier about the video the organization released following a visit to the Margaret Sanger Center.

Rose, the undercover pro-life activist who visited the Tucson Planned Parenthood business, explained she was 15 and her boyfriend was 27 but was told how to go to court to obtain an abortion without having her parents notified. She was encouraged not to have her 27-year-old "boyfriend" along when she appeared in court, despite state law requiring authorities to be notified in such cases.

The video was posted on YouTube by Live Action Films, which had posted videos earlier revealing the results of its undercover investigations in Indiana.

The video also has been embedded here:

A spokeswoman for the Planned Parenthood business in Tucson told WND at the time officials "are aware" of the film. Spokeswoman Jo Nestor said, "We're looking into it."

Abortion supporters promote mob rule

South Dakota abortion supporters are using the vote of the majority to infringe upon the right to life of the pre-born:

South Dakota Campaign for Healthy Families wants to remind the Legislature that their constituents don't want another measure that bans abortion in the state.

Post-election surveying by the group showed people want the focus to shift to preventing unintended pregnancies, co-chairwoman Jan Nicolay said Wednesday.

"The people of South Dakota do not want government intruding into their personal medical decisions," she said. "We just think everyone should work together on that and not spend time with ballot issues."

The campaign's post-election report will be sent to lawmakers. They noted half of the House's representatives are new, and this is a chance to educate them.

Yes, the far-left wants to "educate them", just like they educate future generations of voters in public education that abortion is a right. Most do not know that America is a Constitutional Republic where the minority still has rights (including the right to life), regardless of what the majority says. But instead, we are lead to believe that America is a pure democracy where the majority rules. That is tyranny through mob rule.

Obama needs to see a sonogram

Nat Hentoff has this New Years wish:

My first hope for 2009 is that President Barack Obama, with all the enormous responsibilities he has, will find an hour, just an hour, to look at developing pre-birth human beings during a sonogram, and then think again about his pledge to sign the Freedom of Choice Act, ardently supported by many Democrats in Congress. That law would abolish in many states such restrictions on abortion as state-funding, parent-involvement and informed-consent laws.

If this is his first experience with what a sonogram reveals, he may – as happened to a very pro-choice law professor I know – take a little more time to see more of those unmistakable lives. The law professor was startled to realize that one of the two human beings during an abortion has no choice.