Critical Primary Campaign of Kansas Prosecutor Phill Kline

Re-Election Necessary to Keep Planned Parenthood Case Alive – Asks Pro-Life Movement For Support

Kansas district attorney Phill Kline is fighting a critical primary challenge on August 5 that threatens his efforts to prosecute the only criminal case ever filed against the abortion giant Planned Parenthood in the United States and is asking pro-life advocates to join in his re-election fight.

Phill Kline’s case against Planned Parenthood has the potential of causing the billion dollar abortion giant to lose the $350 million dollars it receives from the federal government under Title X funds.

“He is up for reelection, and if he does not get past this August 5th primary, the candidate he is running against will not carry forward this criminal case,” said Jenn Giroux, Kline’s campaign manager.

Kline faces a stiff challenge from moderate Republican Steve Howe, who with other establishment party figures attempted to dissuade Kline from running for re-election.

Giroux spoke with LifeSiteNews and explained that Planned Parenthood has managed to delay trial for nine months since Kline charged them with 107 criminal counts – 23 felonies and 84 misdemeanors – for unlawful late-term abortions and other abortion-related crimes on October 16, 2007.

Kline’s evidence comes from subpoenaed medical records that indicate that Planned Parenthood in Johnson County willfully neglected to report instances of child rape, forged viability reports, and performed illegal late-term abortions.

The abortion giant has been hoping to wait out the clock on Kline’s term as District Attorney, just as they did when he was the Attorney General. However, if Kline defeats his primary opponent, and then goes on to win the general election, Planned Parenthood will have to face trial.

“If he does not win on August 5, this only criminal case in the country will go away forever,” Giroux stated.

Giroux said Kline’s battle for reelection is entering a critical phase and the campaign is trying to recruit 6,000 individuals or families to donate $50 each to raise $300,000 by July 22 – two weeks from the August 5 primary showdown. Giroux said the money is needed so the campaign can pay for and produce advertising on television, radio, and mail, and get maximum exposure time with the voters. The advertising will help Kline overcome the bias of the Kansas City Star, which is a fierce opponent of the Johnson County DA.

The Kline campaign has set up a website for this purpose called “StandWithPhill,” featuring a video explaining why Kline’s reelection is pivotal to the success of the pro-life movement and such an incredible threat to the abortion hegemon Planned Parenthood. (see http://www.standwithphill.com/)

“More importantly than anything Planned Parenthood is not going to be rewarded for their delay tactics that they hoped would get Phil Kline to leave office and the next prosecutor to drop this case and then they would be off scot-free.”

Giroux stated that Kline’s recent straw poll victory in a conservative part of the county has the campaign feeling very good about the primary; but the fight will be close as they make the final push to get out the word.

“It’s very close, but Phill Kline has 98% name recognition,” Giroux said. “The primary we feel very good about. It’s all about turning out his base.”

Early this July, Kline garnered the endorsement of Focus on the Family founder James Dobson. Dobson said he was speaking as an individual and rarely gave out endorsements, but said, “It is imperative that he win this contest.”

He continued, “Defeating Mr. Kline has become a national priority for the abortion industry, which funneled millions of dollars to Kansas for the purpose of demonizing him in the liberal media and ending his term as Attorney General.”

“If he is to successfully uphold the moral values that you and I and millions of Americans hold dear, particularly with respect to his battle against late-term abortion in Kansas, we must support his re-election campaign.”

To visit the StandWithPhill website:
http://www.standwithphill.com/

To visit Phill Kline’s website for reelection:
http://klineforda.com/

DC Planned Parenthood butcher shop attempting to dodge malpractice suit by a now infertile 13 year old

Tim Waggoner of LifeSite News reported that a women on February 12, 2008, filed a lawsuit against Planned Parenthood Metropolitan located in Washington, D.C. for damages suffered during an abortion procedure at a Planned Parenthood centre.

Emma Jean Butler, mother of Shantese Butler, is suing Planned Parenthood for $50 million dollars in damages. Butler took her daughter to the D.C. Planned Parenthood on September 7, 2006 to abort a child conceived in rape. During the abortion, Shantese sustained severe abdominal bleeding, severe vaginal injury, severe injury to the cervix, significant uterine perforation, and a small bowel tear. In addition, parts of the child were found inside Shantese’s abdomen on September 8, 2006. Because of these injuries, Shantese will be infertile for the rest of her life.

Planned Parenthood Metropolitan has denied the injuries suffered and the infertility of Shantese Butler. In addition, they state in their answer that Butler’s claims are barred by the doctrines of informed consent and assumption of risk.

Kristan Hawkins, Students for Life of America’s Executive Director, remarked, “This is a horrible situation. Our thoughts go out to Shantese and her family as she recovers from her injuries both from the rape and abortion. Further, it is outrageous that Planned Parenthood thinks they are excused from being held liable because Shantese was informed of possible risks associated with abortion. In no other medical profession would this be acceptable. How ironic is it that the pro-abortion movement claims they want abortions to be ‘safe, legal, and rare,’ when in this poster case for abortion, Shantese was permanently injured, resulting in infertility for the rest of her life, making abortion harmful and almost deadly to the young girl.”

We should not allow federal or state governments to pass laws undermining the rights of patients or consumers who have been harmed, lied to, or defrauded by any industry, whether medical or any other.
People do not exist for the benefit of profit or government. The American ideal was that they exist for the benefit of the people in communities, states, and nations where they serve at the people’s will.

Life is priceless and so is wholeness. Planned Planned will be getting off too easy if all they have to do is pay $50 million for Shantese Butler’s medical expenses, legal expenses, and maybe a little left over for her future. Maybe that future will include some sort of new medical restorative technology or for future adoptions.

See Students For Life for more information about this case.

Congressmen Thwart US Support for UN Abortion Initiative

From the 22 May C-FAM FridayFax report titled “Pro-Life Congressmen Thwart US Support for UN Abortion Initiative” written by Piero A. Tozzi and Susan Yoshihara.

Pro-life congressmen, lead by Chris Smith (R-NJ) and Bart Stupak (D-MI), rescued a congressional resolution supporting reduction of women’s mortality at home and abroad from surreptitiously advancing the pro-abortion agenda advanced at the United Nations. House Resolution 1022, as now drafted, promotes both “maternal health and child survival” without a stealth promotion of abortion.

The language that was removed by Smith and Stupak called for funding of “global initiatives” and the recognition of maternal health as a “human right.” Using such language would have lent U.S. support for a new pro-abortion initiative launched at a London conference last October called “Women Deliver.” At the Women Deliver conference pro-abortion advocates launched the International Initiative on Maternal Mortality and Human Rights that seeks to link the maternal mortality issue with access to abortion while furthering development of “soft law” norms that include abortion as a human right.

Among those launching the initiative at the Women Deliver conference were UN Population Fund (UNFPA) Executive Director Thoraya Obaid, the initiative’s architect and then UN Special Rapporteur for Health, Paul Hunt, and the President of the pro-abortion law firm and secretariat for the initiative Center for Reproductive Rights, Nancy Northrup. Northrup stated at the launching that she believes UN treaties already contain an international right to abortion and she would work through the initiative and with UN partners to further that understanding and bind UN member states to recognize that right.

The Women Deliver conference, organized and chaired by the world’s top abortion advocates, including International Planned Parenthood Federation, Ipas and “Catholics” for a Free Choice, was also sponsored by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization in addition to the UNFPA.

House Resolution 1022’s primary sponsor, Lois Capps (D-CA), was one of three members of Congress that attended the Women Deliver conference. A number of pro-life members of Congress, unaware of the provenance of the global initiative and health rights language, originally signed onto the draft version of the resolution.

One misstatement that remains uncorrected in the present version is assertion that “an estimated 536,000 women die during pregnancy and childbirth” – a number touted at the Women Deliver conference but unsubstantiated by the UN’s own statisticians. The UN Population Division report The World’s Women 2005: Progress in Statistics states that “more than a third of the 204 countries or areas examined did not report the number of deaths by sex even once for the period 1995 to 2003 . . . About half did not report deaths by cause, sex and age at least once in the same period.”

In a statement preceding passage of the bill, Rep. Smith pointed out that “when women receive proper prenatal care, they are less likely to die in childbirth,” adding that the final form of the resolution “does not endorse – in any way whatsoever – the cruel ideology that pits women against babies by suggesting abortion as a means of combating maternal mortality.”

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Tennessee Abortion Bill SJR 127 To Fix Planned Parenthood Supported Judical Tyranny

In 2000, in the case of Planned Parenthood v. Sundquist, Tennessee’s Supreme Court “found” a right to abortion in the state Constitution. As a consequence of this decision, Tennessee’s informed consent law was struck down as well as the law that required women to wait 48 hours from the time they were informed to the time they had the abortion. In addition, the Court struck down the requirement that more risky third term abortions be performed in a hospital for the safety to women.

Because of the strong language of the Supreme Court’s opinion, Tennessee’s Attorney General recently issued an official opinion saying that a ban on partial birth abortion would be “constitutionally suspect.” Even though the United States Supreme Court has made it very clear that partial birth can be banned under the U.S. Constitution, the same cannot be said of Tennessee’s constitution. Tennessee needs to pass SJR 127 so it is clear that Tennessee’s constitution does not protect partial birth abortion and prevent our legislature from making it illegal.

SJR 127 simply states:

“Nothing in this Constitution secures or protects a right to abortion or requires the funding of an abortion. The people retain the right through their elected state representatives and state senators to enact, amend, or repeal statutes regarding abortion, including circumstances of pregnancy resulting from rape or incest or when necessary to save the life of the mother.”

I’m looking at the Constitution of Tennessee. Like the most other Constitutions, the right to privacy is not mentioned as a right. The protection of property and unwarranted search or seizure extend does not even hint at an extension to killing the unborn. This one of many reasons judges and legal professionals see Roe v Wade as an erroneous opinion. The point is it is merely an opinion. The opinion is not law. All state legislators have to do is pass as bill like SJR 127 stating what the citizens want abortion laws to be.

Contrary to what many believe, Supreme Court opinions are not supreme law and neither is the opinions of Attorney Generals. American law is made by legislatures appointed a majority of the people. The people through their representatives make law. The opinions of judges do not overrule the will and laws of the people. It is because legislators have allowed this usurpation of power that laws by judicial fiat have succeeded. I suspect legislators have used it as a means of furthering their legislative person or special interest group agendas without appearing to be the bad guys. Nevertheless, statutory law and opinions of the legislature overrule Supreme Court and executive branch opinions. People make laws not the judiciary or executive branches. When judges, executives officers, or representatives of the people act otherwise, it is the duty of the people replace them with those who will abide by their will. That is why legislators have limited terms, why the people vote, and why impeachment law exists.

In January, Iowa citizens began pursuing to impeach a district judge who attempted to overturn a recently passed anti-gay marriage law. That is an appropriate response to judicial tyranny.

For more information, visit Support SJR 127.

Population Research Institute Perspective on the End of Planned Parenthood Funding in Viriginia

From PRI Comments on Planned Parenthood’s Loss of Taxpayer Funding in Virginia by Steve Mosher and Colin Mason, LifeSite News.

The amendment, cutting up to a half million dollars in funding from the abortion giant, passed by the narrowest of margins. The vote in the Virginia Senate was 20 votes in favor of the amendment and 20 against, and Lt. Governor Bolling had to break the tie. The amendment could still be vetoed by Governor Kaine later this month, although this would tarnish the moderate image he is trying to project. In all likelihood, Planned Parenthood faces a complete funding cut, and one that will last at least until 2010.

Feminist groups originally aimed their ire at Republican Ken Cuccinelli, who introduced the legislation. But they soon found a new target: Senator Charles Colgan, a pro-life Democrat who broke party ranks to cross the aisle and vote with Republicans.

Colgan faced withering opposition from within his own party in the days leading up to the vote, yet held firm to his pro-life convictions. “It was pretty tough,” Colgan told the Associated Press on the 27th. “They really wanted me to change my position, but I couldn’t do it.” His vote turned an expected 21 to 19 defeat of the amendment into a 20-20 tie, which in turn brought in Lt. Gov. Bolling to cast the tie-breaking vote against Planned Parenthood.

The vote was greeted with near hysteria by Planned Parenthood’s supporters, who over the years they have come to think of taxpayer funding for its sterilization and contraception programs, which largely target Blacks and other minorities, as a right.

“This amendment is not intended to save money,” complained an opinion piece in the Commonwealth Times. “It is a way for lawmakers to get around Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court case that made abortions legal in the United States, without directly confronting the constitutionality of the decision.”

Never mind that this legislative decision does not in any way address the constitutionality of abortion, only whether Virginia residents should be forced to fund an abortion group with their tax dollars. The Times apparently believes that abortion-on-demand is a human right, and that groups who perform abortions should automatically receive state funding.

The pro-choice blog Feministing.com is quick to pigeonhole all pro-life senators as “anti-choice.” The web site insists that these lawmakers “aren’t concerned about preventing abortion – if they were, they’d be touting birth control – their real concern is limiting women’s choices and rolling back our rights.”

The idea that pro-life senators spend their time plotting to find ways to subjugate modern women is laughable, especially given the fact that the deciding vote was cast by Charles Colgan, a moderate Democrat from Manassas.

Another feminist site, Feministe, goes a step further. Not only does it claim that Planned Parenthood helps to prevent abortions, but it further maintains that the funds would have gone toward non-abortion-related activities, anyway. “Jill,” one of the blog’s contributors, says, “Federal aid, and state aid from Virginia, are not paying for abortions. They are paying for pre-natal care, women’s health care, birth control, and sexual health education. Millions of women across the country benefit from those programs — and I’m one of them.”

Perhaps someone should explain the concept of fungibility to “Jill.” All the money that Planned Parenthood receives goes into the same kitty, and is impossible to track from there. As long as Planned Parenthood performs abortions, there is no way to give them money without in some way funding those abortions.

The Population Research Institute commends this pro-life amendment, and we would like to encourage other states to follow Virginia’s example.

It’s not as if Planned Parenthood needs the money. The abortion giant turns a huge profit each year, and has an endowment of over a half billion dollars. Killing babies is big business.

Years ago, Planned Parenthood declared Fr. Paul Marx, the founder of PRI, to be public enemy number one. In fact, it is Planned Parenthood itself that is the number one enemy of the American people.

In the years since Roe v. Wade, Planned Parenthood has killed more Americans than all the wars that America has ever fought.

Steve Mosher is the President at PRI, and Colin Mason is the Director for Media Production.

The cost of Planned Parenthood

Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, has long been associated with deceiving young women with the lies of “choice” – at taxpayer expense. These pro-choice “services” have extracted a major cost – the loss of pre-born lives laced with the underlying costs of health risks, broken lives, and anguished guilt. Now, however, Planned Parenthood California has been accused of an additional cost – bilking the government (taxpayers) of upwards of $180 million in inflated costs.

 

P. Victor Gonzalez, a former executive with Planned Parenthood’s Los Angeles affiliate, charged Planned Parenthood with a series of unethical practices – including over billing for contraceptives and other medications – beginning in the 1990s and continuing into 2004, when legislation authored by former Assemblywoman Hannah-Beth Jackson legitimized the over-billing practice. Jackson told the Los Angeles Times, “”I was told and persuaded that if Planned Parenthood had to reformulate the charges … that they wouldn’t be able to continue providing the service, that they would be losing money. It was a question of access, absolutely.”

 

Gonzalez, who was allegedly fired in March 2004 for bringing the fraudulent practices to light within the organization, filed a whistle blower’s suit in 2005 that has recently come to light. A 2004 state audit of Planned Parenthood of San Diego and Riverside, one of nine California affiliates, corroborates Gonzalez’ charges, and questions about the organization’s billing practices were raised by Medi-Cal officials as early as 1997.

 

 

Source: California Family Council, March 13, 2008.

 

Women, if you get an abortion your baby will be thrown out in a back alley dumpster

Here is the dumpster.

According to CitizenLink Daily editor Jennifer Mesko, The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has ordered abortionist Alberto Hodari to retrain employees at all six of his Michigan abortion mills after medical waste — including human remains — was discovered in one of his Dumpsters.

Monica Miller, director of Citizens for a Pro-Life Society, said the DEQ “failed miserably” by not fining Hodari over the violations.

“I think it’s pretty pathetic,” she said. “This was not an isolated incident. The DEQ knows it was not an isolated incident.

“I don’t understand why they’re not willing to make a case against him.”

A letter sent by the state to Hodari outlined three medical waste-disposal violations that were found March 10 when police and state officials examined the trash outside his Lathrup Village abortion clinic, The Detroit News reported. The letter asked Hodari to retrain employees at all WomanCare locations.

Miller said the violations “show how absolutely sordid the abortion experience is.”

“Women need to know,” she said, “if they are going to get an abortion, their baby is ending up in the trash Dumpster behind the clinic.”

Hodari blamed the violations on a new employee. A follow-up inspection by the state is scheduled for next week. Lathrup Village police are investigating reports that patient records also were found in the trash.

Jennifer Nelson, who said she found medical waste in the trash receptacle at the WomanCare facility in Southgate, agreed with Miller. “The DEQ is being grossly negligent,” she told The News. “They are giving (Hodari) a little slap on the wrist.”

Maybe Michigan citizens should complain very loudly at the frivolous justice demonstrated by their officials. Miller maybe right about this being a widespread problem, but she pointed out the key issue. The abortion facility is run by the state; otherwise how could she expect the state officials to fire Hodari? I wonder how much revenues the state of Michigan get from its abortion mills.

Catholic Diocese of Little Rock Flip Flops – Now Okays Funding Group which Supports Planned Parenthood

On February 7, 2008, the Respect Life Apostolate of the Diocese of Little Rock issued a statement saying that it “neither supports nor encourages participation in activities that benefit Susan G. Komen for the Cure.” Now, less than a month later, the Diocese has reversed its position. The decision was made after Komen assured the Diocese that local fund-raising will not benefit Planned Parenthood.

“Despite the efforts of some to make this issue sound complicated, the facts are clear,” said Douglas R. Scott, Jr., president of Life Decisions International (LDI). “The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation allows its chapters to fund Planned Parenthood and several of them do so. The Diocese of Little Rock has essentially said it is acceptable to be associated with a group that funds an abortion-committing goliath so long as local dollars are not going to the group. This kind of disconnect is exactly what Komen officials were hoping to achieve and they clearly succeeded.”

“I had been assured that 25% of the money given here in Arkansas goes to the national Komen foundation, which provided grants to Planned Parenthood, a major provider of abortions,” wrote Diocesan Administration Rev. J. Gaston Hebert in explaining the new position. “If that were true, money donated in Arkansas could have indirectly funded abortions. Regardless of the exceptional work done by Komen…the good accomplished would not have been a legitimate reason to participate in the death of unborn children…However, the reality is that the national Komen foundation does NOT give grants to Planned Parenthood – and, therefore, money given to Komen in Arkansas does NOT, even indirectly, fund abortion. Thus, my major reason for releasing the position statement was NOT valid.”

“In other words,” Scott said, “as long as my specific dollar is not going to Planned Parenthood, it is morally acceptable to be associated with an organization that allows its chapters to support an enterprise that killed 264,943 preborn human beings in 2005 alone. “Scripture calls on Christians to have nothing to do with evil. If a Komen chapter in California was actually committing abortions with money raised locally, would Rev. Hebert use the same logic? If the answer is ‘no,’ I would sure like to hear his rationale.”

Scott said that other than the obvious connection between any parent organization and their affiliated chapters, the issue is not whether the parent directly funds Planned Parenthood, but whether the parent directly supports a chapter that directly funds Planned Parenthood. “The parent could prohibit funding of Planned Parenthood by its chapters but Komen has steadfastly refused to do.”

“I would note that there is [sic] a relatively small number of affiliates of Komen that do give grants to Planned Parenthood…” Rev. Hebert wrote. Scott wondered if the Diocese would have come to a different conclusion if every Komen affiliate, with the exception of those based in Arkansas, supported Planned Parenthood. “Based on the logic used to defend the new position, the answer is that it would not have mattered.” “Even this partnering…unintentionally gives credence and acceptability to Planned Parenthood due to Komen’s excellent reputation,” Rev. Herbert continued. “Exactly!” Scott responded. “The partnering, which is actually quite intentional since it certainly did not happen by accident, does give credence and acceptability to Planned Parenthood.”

Source: LifeSite News.com

“Idol Gives Back” Project Supports Radical Abortion Agenda

Once again, “American Idol” is aligning itself with pro-abortion Save the Children and UNICEF. On March 8, 2007, “American Idol” unveiled its “Idol Gives Back” project, the stated goal of which was to “raise awareness of the effects of poverty on children and young people.” Last year the project generated more than $75 million.

The second Idol Gives Back program will air on April 9, 2008. Like last year, several celebrities will appear on the show to urge Americans to make a donation.

“For years UNICEF spokesmen denied promoting contraception or abortion,” wrote Winifride Prestwich in UNICEF: Guilty As Charged. She said records prove that “step by step over a 30-year period UNICEF has tied itself to the population controllers and to the anti-life, anti-family attitudes of such organizations as the International Planned Parenthood Federation.”

A study released by the International Organizations Research Group (IORG) documented UNICEF’s ties to abortion and radical feminism. UNICEF: Women or Children First? showed that UNICEF has helped write many documents that call for increased access to abortion and the legalization of the deadly act worldwide.

IORG discovered that UNICEF has funded a program run by the militantly pro-abortion Population Council, which holds the U.S. patent for the abortion pill, RU-486. UNICEF has also supported a South African group that targets adolescents with a pro-abortion message.

It is now official UNICEF policy to “Promote and expand access to sexual and reproductive health services, including access to condoms,” the IORG report stated. A high-ranking UNICEF official even called for his group to “make condoms available and accessible for everybody, everywhere and at all times. Abstinence is simply not a realistic option for most young people in the world today.”

The evidence that UNICEF has actively promoted the Culture of Death is overwhelming and indisputable:

– In 1987, UNICEF officially endorsed “good quality abortion services” at the International Conference on Better Health for Women and Children in Nairobi, Kenya.

– In 1993, UNICEF raised its contribution to the United Nations Population Fund’s (UNFPA) open support for Communist China’s “one-child family” policy from $2 million to $5 million.

– In 1997, the Vatican cut funding to UNICEF after the group co-sponsored a manual that endorsed emergency birth control. (Emergency birth control can cause an early abortion.) UNICEF also refused to provide a detailed accounting of its population control and pro-abortion programs.

– On October 26, 2002, the Calgary Herald reported that UNICEF has been straying from its mission for many years. The article, titled “UNICEF’s Other Agendas,” included an interview with Mary Kassian, author of The Feminist Gospel. “Hundreds of thousands of children are still dying of TB or malaria, or because they don’t have clean water. And the UN is giving them IUDs…I chose long ago not to support UNICEF and to support those good causes through other agencies that aren’t tainted.”

Save the Children has a working relationship with what it calls “prominent international organizations.” Several of these groups are actively pro-abortion, including Better World Fund, Center for Reproductive Rights, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Population Action International, and the U.S. Committee for UNICEF.

In 2001, Save the Children worked with Planned Parenthood, the Population Action Council, and the pro-abortion Audubon Society on its five-year “Planet Campaign.” Funded by the rabidly pro-abortion/population control David and Lucile Packard and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundations, the purpose of the campaign was to “raise awareness of the connections between international family planning and the health of children, women and the environment.” The Planet Campaign used television and print advertising, community outreach, special events, and other activities to spread its message. Save the Children said the campaign’s website provided “an international forum for discussion of, and action on, women’s reproductive health – including family planning – in various countries and diverse cultures around the world.”

Save the Children has stated that “family planning” has been a “critical component” of its work for nearly 20 years. The group quoted a UNICEF document which stated that “family planning could bring more benefits to more people at less cost than any other single technology now available to the human race.” Save the Children noted that the report identified “access to family planning” as a “key factor contributing to maternal and child survival and well-being.”

“It is laudable that the people involved with ‘American Idol’ want to help the poor,” said LDI President Douglas R. Scott, Jr. “But it is tragic that they would choose to do so through groups like UNICEF and Save the Children. These groups have far too much deadly baggage.” Of course, what many people do not know, because “American Idol” has not chosen to mention it, is that Simon Cowell is the chief executive officer of International Save the Children. This is surely why Save the Children was selected as a recipient charity.

“‘American Idol’ should stop using the contestants to raise money for groups when they are keeping the activities of these charities a secret,” Scott said. “‘American Idol’ should practice full disclosure and give those contestants who may wish to decline participation in ‘Idol Gives Back’ the opportunity to do so without repercussions.”

“If you believe the plight of preborn children is as important as the plight of the poor, do not participate in ‘Idol Gives Back'” Scott urged. “We are caring people who want to do our part to help those less fortunate, but we will do so through organizations that do not view the killing of human beings as a ‘solution’ to poverty and other adult-created problems.”

Source: LifeSite News

Planned Parenthood Accused of Overbilling Government

Planned Parenthood affiliates in California are being sued after allegedly overcharging the state and federal governments by $180 million for birth-control pills. A former executive filed the lawsuit.

Victor Gonzalez, former vice president of finance and administration of the Los Angeles affiliate, said he was fired for questioning Planned Parenthood’s “illegal accounting, billing and donations practices,” which began in the late 1990s and continued until 2004.

Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, is accused of purchasing contraceptives and other medicines at discounted rates and then billing the state “12 or more times their purchase rate.”

Operation Rescue President Troy Newman said there are increasing reports of alleged illegalities at Planned Parenthood affiliates across the nation. A Kansas clinic is facing 107 criminal charges.

“In light of this new revelation that Planned Parenthood could be committing financial fraud that has cost taxpayers over $180 million, Operation Rescue renews its call for a federal investigation and a halt to funding of Planned Parenthood affiliates across the nation,” he told California Catholic Daily.

To ask your US Representatives and Senators to stop Planned Parenthood funding, go here.

Source: CitizenLink Daily

Source: CitizenLink Daily

How has sexual socialists (read: anarchists) prevailed in Maine

Gays are considered a huge market. As a group, their spending power is over $640 million. That is they possess over $640 in net income. Depending on which statistics used, the average individual income ranges from $50,000 to $150,000. The latter figure represents about 3% of the total U.S. population, which some analysts regard as the most accurate. If so, many gays are in leading positions throughout America social and economic institutions.

Gay ascendancy has been in the works for over 80 years. They have been part of the secularist-socialist movement at least beginning in the 1920s and possibly as far back as the mid-1800s. They are part of the anti-religious and anti-moral socialism. Their strategy had been to market their movement as patriotically American. They use an old strategy called double-speak. That is they use the right terms like Separation of Church and State, civil rights, and equality but define them differently. For example, Separation is legal principle of freedom predating the founding of the American colonies. It historical meaning is exactly as it is stated: a separation of institutions, authority, and leadership, but both institutions and its authority were considered equally important and necessary to the personal and public good. That did change in America until the rise of socialists/secularists. Maybe you have noticed that today Separation and Establishment means any public display or expression of religion, especially biblical religion. Yet, the founding Congresses had Bible verses etched into federal and state building, placed the Ten Commandments in the Supreme Court, instituted a national chaplaincy, and many other like public religious supports by the governments. The socialists/secularist have been deceiving Americans for over 40 years. Sadly, many Americans are zealous divisive followers. Many of those followers have been lawyers, politicians, and judges who have changed laws and created new ones by evading the Constitutional law-making process. They have imposed much over their views by law through court decisions rather than by Constitutional amendments for obvious reasons. Most people and states oppose their agenda as witnessed by most states passing marriage law to prevent same-sex marriages and by passes attempts to amendment the Constitution to include a wall of Separation between Church and State and any state support of religion.

Legal history does show the progression of a forced imposition of anarchical secular fundamentalism on all Americans. That is why they repeatedly decry the efforts of religious citizens to restore the founding ideals and laws as imposing their views or morality or religion on everyone. It is a way to deflect everyone from what they have been doing for a long time.

The point is sexual anarchists are part of a anti-American movement marketed as the American ideal that they created and defined, deceived many of its historical precedence, and have worked to make it public policy. They have modeled their politics on western communist ideals not American ideals.

Getting back to the very profitable gay market and the many gays in leading positions in America, The Christian Civic League Record published a recent article titled Maine’s Publicly-Funded “Gay” FrostbiteME 2008 Weekend. The author lists all of the businesses and non-profits supporting this big gay event in Portland Maine. The following are excerpts from the article that should give readers an idea how important the gay agenda is to the green bottom-line:

Many of Maine’s largest businesses, and at least two governmental entities: the Convention & Visitors Bureau of Greater Portland and the Amtrak Downeaster, have given significant financial support to the homosexual weekend’s efforts. Other family-friendly entertainment venues, such as the Children’s Museum of Maine, the Portland (ME) Pirates hockey club, and the Sunday River ski resort offer steep discounts or free admission in honor of the weekend, but only if homosexuals show their FrostbiteME 2008 badges.

Four Portland-area hotels, the Eastland Park Hotel, Holiday Inn by the Bay, the Wild Iris Inn, and the Portland Harbor Hotel, offer special discounted weekend packages for homosexuals participating in FrostbiteME 2008, which include free alcohol, saunas, homemade granola, and “special chocolate novelties.”

In all, fifty-four Southern Maine businesses are listed as financial sponsors of, or have discounted services specifically due to, the homosexual FrostbiteME 2008 weekend.

Major businesses financially supporting and publicly sponsoring the homosexual event include Diversified Business Communications (which owns Bangor’s WABI/Channel 5 television station), Sunday River ski resort, JetBlue Airways, Dreyfus Financial Services, Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, the non-profit Maine Community Foundation, the Rainbow Business & Professional Associates (RBPA), and the non-profit Maine & Company.

The RBPA’s public membership directory boasts over 130 Maine homosexual professionals and homosexual contacts within businesses located in Maine. It can be viewed online at http://rbpa.org/members. The Maine Community Foundation’s Maine Equity Fund gives over $40,000 annually in grants for homosexual and transgendered organizations and events in Maine.

Maine & Company, which publicly supports the homosexual FrostbiteME 2008 events, is a private non-profit corporation that assists Maine’s businesses in growth and development. Maine & Company’s Directors and Members include Bob Hanf, President of Bangor Hydro-Electric Company, Sara Burns, President & CEO of Central Maine Power, Bruce A. Coggeshall, Managing Partner of Pierce Atwood LLP, Dana F. Connors, President of the Maine State Chamber of Commerce, Edward Dinan, President of Verizon Communications in Maine, Erin Hoeflinger, Vice President/General Manager of Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Maine, Raymond “Chip” Kelley, Senior Vice President of Key Bank of Maine, Harold C. Pachios, Managing Partner of Flaherty Beliveau & Pachios, Melinda Poore, Vice President of Government & Community Affairs for Time Warner Cable, Commissioner John Richardson of Maine’s Department of Economic & Community Development, David Warren, Managing Partner of Verrill Dana, LLP, Lawrence A. Wold, President of TD Banknorth Maine, Charles A. Morrison, President of the Androscoggin County Chamber of Commerce, Godfrey Wood, Executive Director of the Greater Portland Chamber of Commerce, Steve Culver, Vice President of Government Relations for Hannaford Bros., Lisa Martin, Executive Director of the Manufacturers Association of Maine, and Kimberly Lindlof, President of the MidMaine Chamber of Commerce.

The homosexual lobbying group, EqualityMaine, held their 24th Annual Awards Dinner in Portland on March 8 as part of the FrostbiteME 2008 weekend of events. Sponsors for the evening, each of whom have donated between $750 to $2,500 to EqualityMaine directly, include Time Warner Cable, Norway Savings Bank, Diversified Business Communications, Five County Credit Union, Vogel & Dubois, and the Portland Phoenix newspaper.

As you can see, sexual anarchists have prevailed in southern Maine because government and business in Maine love profit is more than principle. The apostle Paul said, “The love of money is the root of all evil.”
This also explains in part why corporate America and their partners in local, state, and federal legislatures defend the socialist agenda of gays. If not because of comrades in agenda, they support them because of profit and its power.

I realize the above will be regarded by some as unpardonable sins against the lies of secularist doctrines of like equality, tolerance and fairness that requires no criticism of or resistance against immorality, sadomasochism, perversion, communism, anarchy, illegal laws, and totalitarianism but rather tolerance and Christian love. Yet, Jesus Christ didn’t tolerate devils, liars, hypocrites, bigots, evil-doers, and the like. He helped those who actually wanted to live righteous before God. That is those who actually wanted to live according to the moral laws of God. Such is not the case with the latter day Sodomites and their other socialists/secularist co-anarchists like the ACLU, Americans United, American Way, NEA, Planned Parenthood, many Democrats, etc.

Just think of it. America is the land of the free and home of the brave, protector of human and civil rights, the defender of democracy, and one nation under God. Translated in the modern American vernacular of the Left, this means America is the home of the free anarchists to do whatever they want and whenever want and however they want without fear of reprisal or antiquated moral stigmatization enforced by moral law. America is the protector civil rights as defined by they who hate America’s founding law, rights and ideals of liberty. America is the defender of socialist democracy like that of USSR and communist China except where popular opinion and law hinders (even those nations and others elect their government leaders and are allowed to voice concerns at least about some public policy). America is one nation under gods–the god of fundamental secularism, god of evolution, the god of profit or wealth or materialism, the god of hedonism, the gods of east and west, and I almost forgot the socialist god of the state.

It should be apparent that the ‘Old Deluder’ has risen from his near-death experience–and not just in Maine.

To read the entire article and references, go here.

Iowa Governor Rejects Federal Abstinence Funding To Support Planned Parenthood Sex Industry

Another public servant serves not the good of youth, parents and other citizens but Planned Parenthood secular fundamentalism and sex-based profits.

CitizenLink reports that Iowa Gov. Chet Culver, a Democrat, plans to reject federal funding for abstinence-only sex-education programs, despite research from The Heritage Foundation that shows nine in 10 parents want schools to teach abstinence.

Iowa is the 17th state to reject or simply not apply for Title V funding, which provides more than $40 million a year for abstinence-only education across the country.

According to the Iowa Family Policy Center, Planned Parenthood is expected to be hired by schools to teach so-called comprehensive sex education.

“Abstinence education is called scientifically inaccurate because it does not teach children how to put on condoms and use contraception,” Linda Klepacki, sexual health analyst for Focus on the Family Action. “This continues to be politics at its worst — harming children and young people.

“When a teen uses condoms and contraception that the sex educator tells her will prevent pregnancy and she delivers her baby, who is liable for medical accuracy? And who is liable for the baby’s expenses?”

The lies perpetuated by Democrats and Planned Parenthood is repudiated by actually empirical research they deny exist. American Journal of Health Behavior published the results of a study conducted by The Institute for Research and Evaluation on Virginia’s abstinence program. The study concluded that those students receiving abstinence education were about one-half (45.7%) as likely to initiate sexual activity as students who did not receive abstinence education. That means abstinence education does work. Other reports posted on this blog shows Planned Parenthood sex education is harmful.

Undercover Investigation Reveals Planned Parenthood’s Racism & Other Crimes

The following are excerpts from a recent articles written by Thaddeus M. Baklinski about a pro-life student organization’s investigation into Planned Parenthood’s continued racists and illegal abortion practices. The results will certainly surprise if not offend:

UCLA’s pro-life student magazine, The Advocate, has revealed an undercover investigation in which representatives of Planned Parenthood enthusiastically accepted a financial donation targeting the abortion of an unborn black baby for racist motives.

Lila Rose, editor of The Advocate, says she has taped responses of Planned Parenthood officials from seven states that reveal the eugenic character of their ideology.

Planned Parenthood ideology originates with Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood. She was a proponent of “race hygiene” through “negative eugenics,” an attempt to reduce the fertility of “dysgenic” groups, in the early 20th century. In 1921, she said eugenics is “the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems, and the ever increasing, unceasingly spawning class of human beings who never should have been born at all.” She also cautioned, “We do not want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population.”

Last spring, in another sting on Planned Parenthood, Lila posed as a 15-year-old seeking an abortion at a Planned Parenthood abortuary in Santa Monica, California.

Lila was accompanied by James O’Keefe, who acted as her 23-year-old boyfriend. In a recorded conversation, the employee encouraged Rose to invent a birthday to allow Planned Parenthood to avoid reporting a case of statutory rape.

“If you’re 15, we have to report it. If you’re not, if you’re older than that, then we don’t need to,” the employee said. “Okay, but if I just say I’m not 15, then it’s different?” Rose asked. The employee responded, “You could say 16…well, just figure out a birth date that works. And I don’t know anything.”

“Planned Parenthood has been concealing statutory rape and child abuse cases for years,” Rose said. “This video reveals what really goes on behind closed doors in Planned Parenthood’s abortion clinics.”

Lila Rose and The Advocate were subsequently threatened with civil action by Planned Parenthood of Los Angeles.

After The Advocate exposed the incident in the latest issue of The Advocate and uploaded the videos to the popular video sharing website You Tube, Planned Parenthood emailed Rose a letter demanding that she “immediately relinquish to PPLA [Planned Parenthood Los Angeles] the original and any copies of all communications with PPLA employees you have recorded without their consent.” The letter, signed by PPLA CEO Mary Jane Wagle, threatens a suit for “$5,000 or three times actual damages.”

“This lawsuit threat is an example of Planned Parenthood using intimidation against those willing to expose its crimes,” Rose said. “Planned Parenthood is a $900 million operation. Instead of threatening me with a lawsuit, Planned Parenthood should call a press conference condemning its staffers and promising major reform to protect young girls. Instead, they are threatening a college student.”

“Imagine a major corporation had been exposed for committing crimes in order to pad its bottom line. There would be a parade of congressmen demanding hearings and reform,” said Rose. “Young girls are at risk and Planned Parenthood is receiving federal tax money. The federal government should investigate this and Planned Parenthood, like any other corporation, should be held accountable.”

Other lawsuits have been filed against Planned Parenthood across the country for failing to report child abuse and statutory rape. In a Planned Parenthood clinic in Central Ohio, a young girl revealed to clinic employees that she was being forced to have sex with her father for three years. The clinic refused to act, and the child abuse continued for two more years. Finally the girl filed suit against the clinic for failing to report a crime as required by law.

To read the complete article, go here. To learn more about the work of The Advocate, visit their website. To support this student pro-life organization, go here.

Planned Parenthood Web Site Promotes Porn to Teens

Penny Starr, Senior staff writer for CNSNews.com, wrote a revealing article about Planned Parenthood’s plans for America’s teens. The following are excerpts for her article.

Teenwire.com, the Planned Parenthood Web site that says it was created “to provide medically accurate sexual health information for teens on the Internet,” is advising teens that viewing pornography is a normal and “safer” way of enjoying sex.

In a 2007 article, “Birth Control Choices for Teens,” the writer for the Planned Parenthood site tells readers about “Outercourse.”

Under the subtitle, “lower-risk forms of outercourse,” in addition to kissing, masturbation, erotic massage and body rubbing, or frottage, is “fantasy.”

“Many couples can read or watch sexy stories or pictures together,” the article states. “They can also share or act out sex fantasies. People do it in person, on the phone, surfing the Internet or through e-mail instant messaging.”

Another advice piece, “Porn vs. Reality,” warns that federal law makes it illegal for anyone under 18 to view pornography; “however, not everyone follows the rules, and you may run across some porn before you turn 18. There are a few things you should know about the images you might see. First of all, many people enjoy pornography alone or with a partner as part of sex play. People have different ideas of what is arousing, and there are many different kinds of porn that appeal to people’s different interests.”

On the Web site’s “Ask the Experts” page, young readers pose questions about pornography.

“Dear Experts,” one young reader wrote, “I look at porno sites but I got all A’s for my subjects. People say looking at those sites affects your school work, but since I think I’m not affected, should I stop it? If I should, how?”

The answer given by teenwire.com experts includes the advice that “many people enjoy using pornography as a part of their sex play — alone or with a partner.” And “there is no correlation between using pornography and getting bad grades in school.”

Cybercast News Service asked experts what they though about the content on teenwire.com. Specifically, CNS wanted to know whether the content was medically accurate, if it promoted the viewing of pornography by teens, and if exposure to such material can be harmful.

Cris Clapp, congressional liaison for Enough is Enough, a nonprofit group that works to protect children and families from online pornography, said the site sends the wrong message.

“Although teenwire.com does make the point that pornography is illegal in the United States for people under 18, and although the editors mention that some may struggle with compulsive access to this content, overall teenwire.com has painted a picture that pornography is harmless fun,” Clapp told Cybercast News Service. (empahsis are mine.)

Clapp added that a recent study by the University of New Hampshire showed that 42 percent of Internet users ages 10 to 17 had seen porn over the course of a year. Also, pornography online goes far beyond the stereotypical Playboy or Penthouse type images to include graphic content, including virtual sex parties and violent sexual images, she said.

Clapp cited the testimony before Congress on Nov. 10, 2005, of Jill Manning, author and marriage and family therapist.

“Children and adolescents are considered the most vulnerable audience of sexually explicit material,” Manning testified. (emphasis are mine.)

“Youth are considered a vulnerable audience because they: (a) can be easily coerced into viewing pornography or manipulated into the production of it; (b) have limited ability to emotionally, cognitively, and physiologically process obscene material they encounter voluntarily or involuntarily; (c) can be the victims of another’s pornography consumption in ways adults are often more resilient to; (d) can have their sexual and social development negatively impacted through exposure to fraudulent and/or traumatic messages regarding sexuality and relationships; and (e) can develop unrealistic expectations about their future sexual relationship through repeated exposure to fantasy-based templates. For these reasons and others, it is illegal to knowingly display or distribute obscenity or pornography defined as harmful to minors,” she testified.

What do media marketers and advertiser seek from their audiences? The desire consuming behavior towards their company’s or sponsor’s product. From getting drunk to buying a car, they promote products in the most colorful, appealing way possible. Most often getting the product is equated to having fun and being with sexy people. This is the underlying message of Starr’s article. Planned Parenthood wants good customers for their condoms, contraceptives, and abortions. They also intend for their anti-moral, anti-religious secular fundamental views to rule the world of teens and everyone else.

One of the most hideous aspects of Planned Parenthood’s plans for teens is their complete disregard of the criminal connection between pornography and violent assaults against women.

Consider what some other experts told Starr about this problem:

Victor Cline, a psychoanalyst and professor emeritus at the University of Utah, said in a 1999 paper, “Treatment and Healing of Pornographic and Sexual Addictions,” that, “In over 25 years I have treated approximately 350 males afflicted with sexual addictions (sometimes referred to as: sexual compulsions).

“In about 94 percent of the cases I have found that pornography was a contributor, facilitator or direct causal agent in the acquiring of these sexual illnesses,” he wrote.

“Patrick Carnes, the leading U.S. researcher in this area, also reports similar findings. In his research on nearly 1,000 sex addicts as reported in his ‘Don ‘t Call it Love,’ he stated: ‘Among all addicts surveyed 90 percent of the men and 77 percent of the women reported pornography as significant to their addiction,” Cline added.

Let’s not forget what serial rapists and murderers like Ted Bundy had to say about the affects of pornography. His path to serial rape and murder began with pornography. Bundy, who killed at least 28 females, including the 12-year-old girl whose death led to his arrest and conviction, requested the interview with Dr. James Dobson. This is what he said:

“As a young boy of 12 or 13, I encountered, outside the home, in the local grocery and drug stores, soft core pornography,” Bundy told Dobson, adding that “the most damaging kind of pornography – and I’m talking from hard, real, personal experience – is that that involves violence and sexual violence. The wedding of those two forces – as I know only too well – brings about behavior that is too terrible to describe.”

Bundy said he didn’t blame pornography and took full responsibility for the brutal rape and murder of more than two dozen women, but he said it is a contributing factor that caused him and other violent offenders’ to act out.

“I’m no social scientist,” Bundy said, “and I don’t pretend to believe what John Q. Citizen thinks about this, but I’ve lived in prison for a long time now, and I’ve met a lot of men who were motivated to commit violence. Without exception, every one of them was deeply involved in pornography – deeply consumed by the addiction.”

Sex-on-demand with a little help from pornography is no more America’s solution to its social problems than is consequence-negating abortion-on-demand. The problem is organizations like Planned Parenthood and it radical secular ideology that it not only preaches to America’s youth but coerces the rest of us by the perverse laws they and their supportive politicians make.

Senate Bans Planned Parenthood Funding (Updated)

In case you have not heard, Virginia legislators removed Planned Parenthood funding from the state budget.

On February 27, Chris Fruend, Vice President of the Family Foundation, reported the good news.

In a tremendous victory for Virginia families the state Senate today added an amendment to the state budget that bans taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood!

Senator Cuccinelli offered an amendment that bars Planned Parenthood from receiving state funding in the new budget. Senator Janet Howell (D-32, Reston) warned how passing this amendment would lead to women dying from illegal abortions (an absolutely ridiculous and baseless claim). Senate Majority Leader Dick Saslaw (D-35, Springfield) threatened Senators that passing the amendment would mean that “your pet project could be next!”

The vote was then taken: 20-20!

On a tie vote, the President of the Senate, Lt. Governor Bill Bolling, casts the tie-breaking vote. Lt. Governor Bolling then voted in favor of the amendment!

Virginians are outraged when they learn that an organization that had a profit of over $55 million in its most recent annual report has its hand out for even more of their tax dollars. This radical pro-abortion organization’s latest annual report showed a national income of nearly $1 billion! Over one third of that money comes from taxpayers.

Today’s action by the state Senate has been a long time in coming. We applaud Senator Cuccinelli, Lt. Governor Bill Bolling and those state Senators who voted in favor of Virginia taxpayers today by passing this important amendment.

The House of Representative previously cut Planned Parenthood funding because of its abortion practices and because of inappropriate sexual material found on its teenwire.com website, according to LifeSite reporter Michael Baggot.

For more information, visit the Family Foundation Blog and the LifeSite News website.

Lack of Interest Forces Planned Parenthood to Leave University

In a previous post, I reported on Planned Parenthood’s intention to market unrestricted sex, sales of condoms, and abortions on demand at the University of Texas.

While Planned Parenthood of Houston Texas is hoping to make big bucks preying on students in Texas, they are leaving the Health and Wellness Clinic at Pennsylvania’s Lehigh University because too few students were using its services, according to CitizenLink.

Planned Parenthood started out offering services on a weekly basis, but patient visits were so infrequent that services were moved to biweekly, said Planned Parenthood spokeswoman Arlene Daily.

Dawn Vargo, associate bioethics analyst at Focus on the Family Action, said: “Any time Planned Parenthood closes its doors because of a lack of interest, it is a step in the right direction.”

Hopefully, the young people will send the same message Planned Parenthood of Houston Texas.

Illinois Families Fighting Another Comprehensive Sex Ed, Sex-On-Demand, and Abortion-on-Demand Bill Supported by Liberals

Representatives Barbara Flynn Currie (D-Chicago) and Rosemary Mulligan (R-Des Plaines) recently introduced HB 5615, the so-called “Reproductive and Justice Access Act.” Lobbyists for the nation’s largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood, are working intensively to pass this pro-abortion legislation.

HB 5615 represents a radical and unprecedented departure from current Illinois law regarding abortion, public funding of abortion, health care right of conscience, and comprehensive sex education.

ABORTION

Section 15 of HB 5615 PROHIBITS the state from any regulation of contraceptives or abortion at any stage of pregnancy, including:

Prohibiting Partial Birth Abortion

Requiring Parental Notification

Requiring that a minor can obtain emergency contraceptives without parental knowledge

Any regulation at all!!!

Section 20 of HB 5615 MANDATES public funding of abortion through Medicaid and could require health insurance for state employees to cover abortion!

Section 25 of HB 5615 specifically repudiates any possibility of regulating abortion procedures — including a ban on partial birth abortion.

Clearly, the enactment of HB 5615 would codify all abortion procedures at any stage of pregnancy.

HEALTH CARE RIGHT OF CONSCIENCE

Section 15 of HB 5615 prohibits anyone working for a governmental agency from exercising a health care right of conscience in regards to contraceptives (including the morning after pill) and/or abortion.

Section 35 of HB 5615 places three overbearing and unreasonable demands on any health care professional who morally or ethically objects to any type of contraception or abortion procedure:

(1) the health care professional must give all their patients or their employer written notice of their moral religious beliefs;

(2) the health care professional must provide an objective description of health care options he or she is opposed to; and

(3) the health care professional must refer his or her patient somewhere for the very options morally objected to.

And in addition to all this, the 4th provision of Section 35 allows an employer to fire any health care employee having moral objections to abortion under a totally undefined standard of undue hardship!

Quite simply, the enactment of HB 5615 would drive anyone having a religious or moral belief against abortion or contraceptives from the Illinois’ health care community!

COMPREHENSIVE SEX EDUCATION

Section 30 of HB 5615 would MANDATE every public school in the state to offer a comprehensive sex education program. No longer would local school districts be able to determine their curriculum in this area; every kindergarten in the state would have to take sex education. One comprehensive sex education curriculum in use includes condom training for 9 year olds!

The enactment of HB 5615 would wrest local control from school districts and, due to the absence of any real standards in so-called comprehensive sex education, quickens the demise of sexual morality in our society.

CONCLUSION

House Bill 5615 is draconian in prohibiting Illinois government from enforcing our Parental Notification Law; refusing to allow for any right of conscience for moral reasons related to abortion or contraceptives; mandating all school teach comprehensive sex education to all school ages!

Visit the Illinois Family Institute for more information.

Massachusetts liberals conspiring to sleaze stalled Planned Parenthood bill in as 2009 budget item

A couple of weeks ago, MassResistance reported that the Planned Parenthood pro-homosexual bill (H597/S288) was killed in committee. The bill is part of Planned Parenthood’s 5-year plan to extend sex education, abortion counseling, and normalization of homosexuality in the public schools. This was a huge setback for Planned Parenthood and the homosexual groups. For the second time in a row, they put heavy resources into getting this passed. But MassResistance (and parents across the state) pummeled the Legislature with phone calls, emails, letters, and personal visits against this bill.”

As last year, liberal lawmakers intend to sneak the bill into law by adding to the 2009 budget bill. MassResistance notes, “[s]neaking a bill into law by making it a “budget item” is a sleazy device the homosexual lobby has used before when they knew they couldn’t get it through legitimately.”

Proof of liberals’ plan to sleaze the bill into law was confirmed by the homosexual newspaper Bay Windows, which reports:

Rep. Alice Wolf (D-Cambridge), one of the lead sponsors of House Bill 597, which would require school districts to institute health curricula, said that while the education committee sent her bill to a study committee, she and other proponents are pushing for language on health education to be included in the Fiscal Year 2009 budget, a version of which is currently being drafted in the House. Wolf, a member of the education committee, said she and committee chairwoman Rep. Patricia Haddad (D-Somerset) will press for funding for the Department of Education to study the state of health education in the state’s public schools and create a plan to expand heath education.

“Chairwoman Haddad and I had an agreement that we would try to proceed with this agenda of trying to move forward with a health education curriculum through the budget process. And whether or not that will be successful we do not know,” said Wolf.

While the bill is not explicitly LGBT-focused, anti-gay advocates including MassResistance have accused proponents of using the bill to sneak pro-LGBT content into the schools because the state’s health education frameworks include discussion of LGBT people and issues. MassResistance founder Brian Camenker and several of his supporters testified against the bill during a hearing last May.

Wolf said from her discussions with fellow committee members she does not believe they were swayed by MassResistance’s arguments in their decision to send the bill to study, but the controversy they created did hurt the bill.

“I think what it did is raise [that] there’s some controversy around this, and there’s a certain amount of resistance around here to do things that have controversy,” said Wolf.

– “Fate of two LGBT-related bills uncertain” Bay Windows 2/21/08

The problem of attaching such a bill as an item to budget legislation is that sex education law will not go through a public hearing, committee debate, or executive session, as do other laws. Once the committee approves a budget bill, the House and Senate rarely pay attention to the thousands of individual items they usually just vote everything through fairly mechanically.” The only remedy at that point is the governor’s veto. But, if there are not enough votes to sustain it, the liberals’ sex education bill and any other rotten legislation become law.

To learn more, visit the MassResistance website.