Saturday, April 05, 2008

Pro Life News from Planned Parenthood, Etc.

From http://lifenews.com/nat3837.html



Planned Parenthood Report: More Abortions, Fewer Adoptions and Prenatal Care Email this article
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by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
April 4, 2008




Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A further examination of the new annual report Planned Parenthood recently released finds the abortion business is still the largest in the United States. As in previous years, the number of abortions it does has gone up and roughly 25 percent of all abortions in the United States are done at Planned Parenthood centers.

The report shows that Planned Parenthood did 289,750 abortions, an increase over the 264,943 abortions it did during the 2005-2006 fiscal year.

That's a whopping nine percent increase even though the number of abortions nationally are on the decline.

"It claims to be reducing pregnancy; yet one out of every four abortions in the United States is committed at a Planned Parenthood facility," watchdog Jim Sedlak told LifeNews.com.

The number of abortions dwarfs the number of clients receiving prenatal care -- which totaled just 11,058 in the new annual report. That number is almost a 20 percent decline from the 2005-2006 total of 13,261.

The number of Planned Parenthood adoption referrals is also miniscule and continues to drop.

The previous annual report showed a scant 2,413 referrals and the abortion business made three less in the last fiscal year.

The adoption and prenatal numbers are also surprising given the increase in the total number of clients at Planned Parenthood. The pro-abortion group had 3.14 million customers in 2006-2007, which represented a 2.5 percent increase or almost 80,000 more customers than the year prior.

The new numbers also show Planned Parenthood continues to make millions on the sale of the morning after pill -- in emergency contraception kits.

Planned Parenthood sold over 1.24 million of the kits in the last fiscal year and, in 2006-2007, the figure rose to 1.43 million.

If a recent expose showing huge markups at California Planned Parenthoods is any evidence, the abortion business has turned selling the Plan B drug into a money-making machine.


As Planned Parenthood provides less tangible help for pregnant women and shifts even further towards becoming a full-fledged abortion business, Sedlak says federal and state governments need to stop subsidizing it.

"We must stop the flow of government money into the hands of this baby-killing business," he concludes. He urges pro-life advocates to contact elected officials and "demand that Planned Parenthood does not receive any more money from our pockets.


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From http://lifenews.com/nat3840.html



Martin Luther King Jr.'s Niece Says Abortion is the New Civil Rights Cause Email this article
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by Steven Ertelt
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April 4, 2008




Memphis, TN (LifeNews.com) -- As Americans honor the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on the fortieth anniversary of his assassination, his niece says abortion has become the civil rights cause of today. Dr. Alveda King, who has suffered from multiple abortions, says the destruction of human life is on par with the lack of civil rights of her uncle's generation.

In a speech at a church in downtown Memphis, King noted how her uncle was killed on this day in 1968.

But a short five years later the Supreme Court opened the floodgates to unlimited abortions in the Roe v. Wade decision -- one that King says has decimated the nation and the black community in particular.

"There are people dying in this country, everyday," she said, focusing on a the plight of a different set of powerless people. "They are unborn children."

"The fight against abortion is a new frontier in the civil rights movement," she said, according to an article in the Mississippi Daily Journal.

"My uncle often said that we don't follow through," King added. "He said that we admonish black women not to abort their babies but we don't show them how to care for them, don't give them options for life."

King bemoaned the number of black leaders today who embrace abortion.

The newspaper said King told the audience that African-American political leaders sold out their pro-life views for support from abortion advocates and other political groups for promoting civil rights.

"We didn't understand how dramatically abortion was affecting our community," she said. "The tradeoff between concentrating too much on other social issues and ignoring abortion has been a deadly tradeoff."

Ultimately, the newspaper said King wants African-Americans to have a new dream about how life can be for America.

"If we're not speaking for the voiceless, not being strong for those who are weak, we're not living Martin's dream," she said.

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