NEW! Black Genocide

NEW! California Gov. Schwarzenegger Signs Bill Relaxing Abortion Center Inspections

NEW! SD Planned Parenthood Abortion Center Closes At Least Temporarily

NEW! Disposed of as a Specimen

NEW! Mexican Pro-lifers to UN: Stop Destroying our Children

NEW! Spanish Gynecologists Denounce Post-viability Abortions

NEW!  The UN CEDAW Pushes Abortion on Nations
 
MA Grand Jury Issues Indictment Against Abortionist In Patient's Death

KY Abortionist's License Suspended

Push for Women to Carry Out Early Medical Abortions at Home

Women Buy Pills Online for 'Home Abortions'

Summary: Past Abortion Might be a Factor in Autoimmune Diseases

The Komen-Abortion Connection

NEW! Congressional Record, 9 July 08, Request to Defund Planned Parenthood / UPDATE Continued Call to Defund PP

NEW! 'Second Opinion' Doctors have Stopped Abortion Work

NEW! Health Care for America Now Campaign Would Include Tax-Funded Abortions

NEW! Federal Proposal Would Recognize Abortion to Include Abortifacients, and Would Help Pro-Life Doctors, Nurses Avoid Abortion Discrimination...

BLACK GENOCIDE. If someone wiped out the entire African-American population in Oakland, Atlanta and Washington, D.C., the number still wouldn't equal the number of black babies lost to abortion in one year: 683,294.

According to the Allan Guttmacher Institute, African-American women are nearly five times more likely than non-Hispanic white women to have an abortion. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, almost one in every two African-American pregnancies ends in abortion.     [http://www.worldmag.com/articles/14218, World Magazine; ALL Pro-Life Today, 18 July 08]

CA GOV SCHWARZENEGGER SIGNS BILL RELAXING ABORTION CENTER INSPECTIONS. The CA governor has upset pro-life advocates by signing a bill into law that relaxes inspection standards on abortion centers.

According to a press release from the governor’s office, Schwarzenegger signed the measure, AB 2010, on July 10 after it was rushed through the state legislature. It was chaptered by the secretary of state the same day Schwarzenegger signed it.

Assemblyman Mark DeSaulnier, a Democrat from Concord, introduced the bill on behalf of abortion business Planned Parenthood.

The bill rescinds a 2007 letter from the Department of Public Health to its district offices telling administrators that “affiliate clinics” like those of the abortion business are subject to onsite inspection before they can open.

The result of the measure is that Planned Parenthood can open new abortion centers without any oversight from the state government and health inspectors. Planned Parenthood opposed the inspections claiming they delayed its ability to do abortions for women.

But a legislative analysis of AB 2010 noted that “according to the Department of Public Health, there is currently no backlog for clinic surveys and DPH further indicates that all completed clinic licensing applications have been processed, and that the initial surveys for those applicants has been completed.” [21July08, Sacramento, CA, www.LifeNews.com, #4372]

SD PLANNED PARENTHOOD ABORTION CENTER CLOSES 21July08, AT LEAST TEMPORARILY.  Monday was the first day that Planned Parenthood, which operates the only abortion business in South Dakota, had to comply with a new state law telling women the truth about abortion. Rather than tell women abortion kills children and has numerous risks, Planned Parenthood closed its doors.

The state law, which the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld last week, required abortion practitioners to inform every woman that she is terminating the life of a human being.

It requires giving her information about the mental health complications such as a high risk of depression and suicide and physical problems like hemorrhage infection, premature births of subsequent pregnancies, and infertility.

The woman considering the abortion receives a chance to sign in writing that she received the information and abortion practitioners who don't comply face losing their medical license, two years in prison and a possible medical malpractice lawsuit.

Whether the closing is temporary or permanent remains to be seen.

Dr. Allen Unruh, a leading pro-life advocate who works with Alpha Pregnancy Center, told LifeNews.com that Monday was a historic day.

"Time will tell if Planned Parenthood plans to re-open it’s doors, but as for now, the regular abortions were canceled today as the abortionist refused to show up," he explained.

"We will see if any other abortionists plan to take the risks involved with full disclosure of what they do to women and their unborn children," he added.

South Dakota Attorney General Larry Long said last week the law would go into effect on Saturday following a decision earlier this month by a federal appeals court saying it's constitutional.

The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the statute and, then, on Thursday, Planned Parenthood’s application to enjoin the statute following the appeals court decision failed.

The measure specifically tells them to tell women "the abortion will terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique, living human being," defined as a human being.

It also requires that the abortion practitioner give women the contact information of a local pregnancy center, as well other information about her health risks and pregnancy support available.

The federal appeals court cited the portion of the Supreme Court's recent Gonzales v. Carhart decision on partial-birth abortion referring to the post-abortion problems women experience.

The court indicated "some women come to regret their choice to abort the infant life they once created and sustained. Severe depression and loss of esteem can follow.” [21July08,  Ertelt, LifeNews.com; Sioux Falls, SD]

 
 
 
DISPOSED OF AS A SPECIMEN. Los Angeles County has settled a lawsuit filed by a woman whose aborted child was disposed of as medical waste even though she had asked that the baby be returned to her for a proper burial.

Garnett, 36, underwent an abortion on Feb. 20, 2006 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles and requested that, following an autopsy, the infant’s body be sent back to her so she could bury it. Instead, the county coroner disposed of the aborted child as hazardous medical waste. Garnett filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court on Sept. 25, 2007 alleging negligence by the coroner and the county mortuary. The suit sought more than $25,000 in damages.  [http://www.calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=f2785512-61b2-4ece-b2c6-6c2b67d8b962;
ALL Pro-Life Today, 18 July 08]
 
 
 
MEXICAN PRO-LIFERS TO UN: STOP DESTROYING OUR CHILDREN. Members of Mexico's National Pro-life Committee held a protest recently outside the offices of the United Nations in response to the organization's continuing support for abortion in Mexico and worldwide. The protest took something of a dramatic turn, as three of the protesters dressed in costumes depicting an abortionist businessmen with profit as their puppeteer, who in turn pretended to kill another participant dressed as a chick in its nest.

In an accompanying letter to the United Nations Organization, the Committee's president and director writes that the organization "has confused its mission and has been converted into the greatest enemy of  peace by proposing birth control and abortion as solutions to the demographic challenges that the world confronts."  [http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/jul/08071701.html, Life Site News; ALL Pro-Life Today, 18 July 08]

SPANISH GYNECOLOGISTS DENOUNCE POST-VIABILITY ABORTIONS. The president of the Spanish Society of Gynecology and Obstetrics (SEGO) gave a press conference earlier this month stating that when fetuses older than 22 weeks gestation are killed in their mother's womb, the procedure should not be called an "abortion" but the "destruction of a viable fetus," underscoring the belief of the society that there is no valid reason to intentionally kill a post-viability unborn child.

Currently in Spain, abortion is legalized up to 22 weeks gestation.
 
In recent months, however, the abortion issue has risen to the fore in Spain, after it was revealed that several Spanish abortion mills were performing illegal post-viability abortions, often for no other reason than unsubstantiated "psychological" issues with the mothers. At some of these mills evidence was found that personnel were grinding up post-viability fetuses and disposing of them through the drainage system
 
Referring to these recent scandals, Dr. Manuel Bajo Arenas stated, "Grinding a fetus into a pulp with a disposal unit cannot be considered abortion" (see LifeSiteNews coverage at http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/nov/07112913.html).

Basing his statements on an ethics report issued by a SEGO committee, Bajo Arenas told the press, "We see very few justifications, if any, to interrupt gestations after 24 weeks (22 of gestation)."

"Anyone who has seen an ultrasound, who sees how a child moves after 24 weeks...just the fact of interrupting the gestation there with a grinder...until literally making it into pulp to expel it, is something that we can't support," said Bajo Arenas.

In those cases where, for whatever reason, it appears to be medically "appropriate" to interrupt a late-term pregnancy, the doctor asked, "Why destroy the child within? Induce labor and try to save it."

Since 1985, when Spain legalized the procedure up to 22 weeks gestation, the rate of abortion has climbed to 100,000 annually. [18 July 08, MC Hoffman, Madrid, www.LifeSiteNews.com]

UN Committee Pushes Abortion on Slovakia, Lithuania, Northern Ireland
At the most recent session of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) meetings in New York, committee members pressed countries on abortion in the guise of talking about maternal mortality, family planning and contraceptive prevalence. Lithuania, Nigeria, Finland, the United Kingdom and Slovakia were all questioned on their abortion laws during their reviews by the committee.
    
While abortion is not mentioned in the treaty, in recent years the CEDAW Committee has questioned more than 60 nations on their abortion legislation. The committee has even gone so far as to create their own "general recommendation" that reads abortion into the text, even though the nations that negotiated the treaty made sure the controversial issue was never mentioned. Delegations often go along with the committees' line of questioning on abortion by providing data and answering queries on the subject during their reviews.
     
During Lithuania's review, committee members pressed the government delegation on access to contraception and on proposed legislation that seeks to defend prenatal life and would pose restrictions on access to abortion. Japanese committee member Yoko Hayashi stated that governmental restrictions on abortion "contradict the full enjoyment of women's reproductive health rights that are protected by CEDAW." The CEDAW document is, however, silent on "reproductive health rights."
     
The United Kingdom was similarly taken to task by the CEDAW committee because of concerns over access to abortion in Northern Ireland. In response to committee queries over whether there was a possibility of changing the abortion legislation, the Irish representative responded that abortion was a matter of criminal law and that no change in legislation could occur in Northern Ireland without consent from all parties.
     
One committee member fired back that the government was not adequately addressing the abortion issue and that not taking action on the matter is "incompatible with obligations under the CEDAW convention."
     
Sylvia Pimentel of Brazil took exception to Slovakia's concordat with the Holy See, particularly on the right of health care workers to conscientiously object to performing or aiding in abortion. Pimentel claimed that it is "discriminatory to refuse to legally provide reproductive health services to women" and that CEDAW state parties "must refrain from obstructing women from pursuing their health goals."
     
While the rulings of the Committee are technically non-binding, abortion activists have brought litigation throughout the world citing CEDAW Committee rulings in support of overturning laws against abortion. Such arguments helped convince the Colombian co