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 Roe v. Wade is the single-most destructive Supreme Court ruling in history. It is responsible for the death of over 55 million human lives, and harming millions of women and men whose “choice” has caused them immeasurable pain. The supremely wrong decision (like many other Supreme Court rulings in American history) allowed the killing of an unborn child through the 7th month of pregnancy (the point of viability). Based on a complete lie (Jane Roe had originally claimed she had been raped) the justices never even heard from the actual plaintiff. She was merely a pawn. Jane Roe is actually Norma McCorvey. Many people don’t realize that she actually gave birth to her child and placed her for adoption. Due to the influence of pro-life advocates, in 1995, everything changed.  She became a Christian (Roman Catholic) and was Roe no more. Today, McCorvey passionately defends women and their unborn children and is fighting to overturn Roe v. Wade.

The Supreme travesty (ruling 7-2) found that Texas violated ”the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, which protects against state action the right to privacy, including a woman’s qualified right to terminate her pregnancy”.¹ The effect of that decision struck down state laws across the nation that charged doctors with a felony that resulted in imprisonment of at least a year, fines and in some instances cancellation of their licenses. Some states elevated the penalty against a physician to the level of murder when the mother was also killed.

Jane Roe (Norma McCorvey) and Gloria Allred celebrating legal abortion before Norma’s conversion. Image ©Boston Globe

But here’s the painful irony.  The ‘Due Process Clause’ was the foundation for Roe v. Wade, forming the majority opinion. This phrase is found in the 14th Amendment,² one of the Reconstruction Amendments–amendments that finally ascribed humanity and personhood to black people. Yet, in some perversion of justice, this amendment was twisted by our Supreme Court and used to strip any humanity and personhood protections from the unborn. This bizarre reasoning made a right to abort from these words: “Nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law”. This is perplexing. A right to kill an unborn life culled from words that forbid it. This amendment was passed in 1868 and ascribed citizenship to Black Americans. Yet, 36 states did not change their abortion laws because there was no right to abort inherent in either the 14^th amendment or the Constitution.³ The authors of the 14th amendment never intended for it to be related to the matter of abortion in any way.  And now, 55 million lives later, people still don’t know the simple truth about how Roe v. Wade was a supreme abuse of power.

Norma McCorvey (Jane Roe) never had an abortion. She placed her daughter for adoption. Today, Norma is a passionate prolife advocate and devotes her life to her “Roe No More Ministry”

The motivation behind the Roe case however, was less about women’s rights and more about continuing the motivating force behind the Birth Control movement–eugenics–a racist pseudoscience that sought to control certain populations.  As Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg revealed in a July 7, 2009 New York Times Magazine article, she and others commonly believed “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.”⁴ Roe was the case the pro-abortion community showcased to ensure population control of blacks, the poor and other minorities.  Norma McCorvey was on drugs, an alcoholic and was homeless.⁵ But as is the case with Planned Parenthood, charity and solving the root of the problem wasn’t their concern (see section on Margaret Sanger).  The right to exterminate life, even while a women’s life is falling apart, is all that mattered.

• FALSE Roe v. Wade allows abortion up to 3 months. TRUE It allows abortion through the 7th month.
• FALSE Jane Roe’s pregnancy was a result of rape.  TRUE This pregnancy was not due to rape.
• FALSE Jane Roe aborted her child. TRUE She gave birth to her child & placed her for adoption.
• FALSE Jane Roe is the poster girl for abortion. TRUE In 1995, she became a ProLife advocate.

Doe v. Bolton – The nail in the coffin

A companion case to Roe, Doe v. Bolton, removed the restrictions a state might place on when an abortion could be performed. It allowed for abortion at any stage to protect the “mother’s health.” This case was decided on the same day as Roe on January 22, 1973, and originated in Georgia.  Just as Norma McCorvey, Doe in this instance (Sandra Cano) was duped and used by her lawyers.  She never even wanted to have an abortion.⁶

Her appeal to the Supreme Court was refused and dismissed in 2006, although the woman behind the law that allowed Partial Birth Abortion, never personally testified in court in the original case.⁷ Those who champion women’s rights (especially of a right of a woman to be heard in her own legal case) are painfully silent about this travesty of justice. This is the sham of so-called “women’s rights”. You have rights as long as, ideologically, you agree with NOW, NARAL “Pro-Choice” America or Planned Parenthood. Women were disempowered by Roe while men were empowered to have sex and run. Roe’s impact on our society is widespread, from rampant abortions to devastating fatherlessness, exponentially higher STDs and increased poverty among women and children. This is not “reproductive freedom” but reproductive self-destruction.

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BY RYAN BOMBERGER

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Do we refer to children as the “drug dealer’s child” or the “adulterer’s child?”  President Obama’s alcoholic father was married multiple times. In fact, his 

father was married to two different women concurrently. Do we call Obama the “bigamist’s child” or the “alcoholic’s child”? That would be horrible. Granted, people hold various views of our Commander-in-Chief, but who would call him the Abandoned-in-Chief because of his deadbeat dad (no matter the wishful dreams he had of his father)?

When do we ever define an innocent child by the crimes of either parent? This is only necessary to those whose ideology demands the dehumanization of that life to justify killing via abortion. It assuages those who demand that certain human life have zero civil rights.

This year is the 50^th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, celebrated as one of America’s most pivotal moments. Most don’t realize that it is nearly a mirror copy of the Republican-only passed Civil Rights Act of 1875, championed by famed abolitionist (and my hero) Frederick Douglass. The act was later ruled, in 1883, unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. (They have often been Supremely wrong!) February is Douglass’ birth-month as well as President Abraham Lincoln’s. Both men changed the trajectory of our nation’s civil rights. Lincoln’s conscience was reshaped by Douglass, a man whose name is synonymous with abolition (despite Steven Spielberg’s grotesque omission of him in his award-winning eponymous film). Lincoln’s heart was moved by the eloquence and conviction of a man who wasn’t even considered human. The leader of the Party created to abolish slavery was compelled to rethink his views of humanity and equality by a former slave who abortion activists, today, would call a “rapist’s child.”

Frederick Douglass, racially mixed, was born as a result of the rape of his biological mother, a slave, by her slave master. But Douglass is defined by his greatness, his achievements, by something other than the crime that caused his conception. He wasn’t the “slave master’s child” but a resilient human being who fought to ensure the dignity of all human life. He was a man who rose from the seemingly impossible to be an incomparable orator, author, newspaper publisher, women’s rights advocate, ambassador, abolitionist, and…Presidential advisor.

We all have that capacity within us. We’re all created equal, which means the beautiful possibility that is within that child who was “planned” is no different than that which was instilled in me despite myviolent conception. My biological mother was strength personified. She chose to be stronger than her circumstances. I am beyond grateful for her courage and the incredible gift of life and love she gave to me, especially through adoption. And as I’ve discovered by talking to rape survivors across the country at events on college campuses, in churches, in schools, and in adoption-related conferences, there is a common thread. Children conceived in rape are often considered by their biological mothers as the only redemption amidst the horrific devastation of rape.

According to a published study* in the Journal of American Obstetrics and Gynecology an estimated 50% of women who conceive after being raped choose abortion, but that’s not the end of the story. Surprisingly to some, 32.2% choose to continue their pregnancy and parent the child with 5.9% opting to make an adoption plan, according to the same study. Nearly 40% choose life! I continue to meet these women, both post-abortive (who often express their regret) and those who gave birth to their child. To add a little more context, abortions due to rape constitute 1% of all abortions nationwide. But these are stories worth knowing, perspectives demanding more than a soundbite or the exploitation by a “pro-choice” politician trying to scare the public into embracing abortion.

Many call these situations the hard cases. I call them the heart cases, because it takes more than numbers to sway people to reconsider what society offers as “healing” to women so horrifically violated. It takes sharing the other side of the story, showing people the tangible reality of that 1% and the beautiful Possibility that every life possesses. The violence of abortion, on both the child and the mother, does nothing to punish the rapist. According to many post-abortive rape survivors I’ve talked to, it doesn’t erase the emotional or physical trauma either.

Lila Rose, the president of Live Action, featured on the February 20, 2014 episode of the Christian Broadcasting Network’s The Brody File.  Calling her a “pro-life prodigy,” Brody joined Rose in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she spoke to students at Sacred Heart Catholic School about the need to play an active part in the “spiritual battle” against the evil of abortion.

When it comes to the pro-life movement, according to one teenager at the Minneapolis talk, “there’s definitely passion.  Like, everyone I talk to – everyone who supports the cause is just super-into it.  There’s no one who’s just, like, mediocre about it.”  This is exactly the phenomenon Nancy Keenan lamented while stepping down as president of NARAL in 2012.

Brody says of Rose: “Lila Rose is to Planned Parenthood what Jerry was to Tom, and Roadrunner was to Wile E. Coyote.”  Considering Live Action’s explicit goal of defunding the abortion industry of all taxpayer money, this is a fair assessment.  But the real thorn in Planned Parenthood’s side is the truth – about abortion, about human embryology, and about human dignity.  And Live Action is simply one of the most effective vehicles for delivering that truth.

You can watch The Brody File here, and read the accompanying story here.  Rose’s segment starts at around the 15:00 mark.

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This week in Alabama, four pro-life bills are having public hearings, and one of them could profoundly affect abortions in the state.

House Bill 490, known as the “Fetal Heartbeat Act,” would eliminate many abortions in the state. The bill says:

Fetal Heartbeat Act, prohibits physician from performing abortion without first determining fetal heartbeat, physician who does not make determination or who performs abortion when heartbeat detected is guilty of Class C felony.

The bill was read last week and referred to the House of Representatives Committee on Health. HB 490 is sponsored by pro-life  Rep. Mary Sue McClurkin (R-Pelham), who made news last year by sponsoring the law which required physicians to have admitting privileges at hospitals if they performed abortions. HB 490 would make abortion more limited, since a heartbeat can be detected at about 7-8 weeks, before many abortions are often performed.

McClurkin says:

This bill specifically deals with killing a person with a heartbeat. We wouldn’t kill a person in a hospital with a heartbeat, we just wouldn’t. It is just simply a bill that will require abortionists to check for the heartbeat, let the mother hear the heartbeat, and then, if there is a heartbeat, he cannot do the abortion.

The Times-Daily reports that “[t]he bill would require that the physician document the procedure used to determine a heartbeat. Not determining the presence of a heartbeat or performing an abortion when a heartbeat has been determined will be a Class C felony, according to the legislation, unless the abortion was medically necessary because the woman’s life or health were at risk.”

The prosecution for this felony, however, would be for physicians defying the law, not the woman having the abortion.

In addition to McClurkin’s bill, three other pro-life bills will be heard Wednesday morning in public hearings, including one sponsored by Rep. Ed Henry (R-Hartselle) that would change the waiting period for an abortion from 24 hours to 48 hours.

‘Heartbeat’ bill aims to protect unborn children in Alabama

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A new app has been launched to enable Christians to pray for men and women experiencing an unplanned pregnancy and uncertainty over whether they should keep their child. 

The app keeps pro-life supporters up to date with specific prayer requests and news, while also offering the ability to give financially to the cause.

The organisation behind the app is Online for Life, a non-profit outreach based in the US that aims to provide “comprehensive care to abortion-determined women and men in their deepest time of need”.

It works both on and offline to reach those considering terminating their pregnancy, coming alongside them and connecting them with life-affirming centres that provide a free ultrasound and resources on the other options available, including adoption.

OFL claims to have saved 1,447 babies so far.

Believing that life begins at conception, the organisation cites the 55 million unborn children aborted in America since 1973 as its primary motivation. The emotional, physical and psychological trauma associated with abortion inspires the team to introduce potential parents to “life-affirming organisations where love and information can be shared in a compassionate, non-judgemental way”.

The new prayer app – available at http://www.prolifeapp.com – launched this month. It celebrates lives saved and gives notifications about women in crisis who need prayer.

Users are notified when someone in their area makes contact with a life-affirming centre in OFL’s network, meaning that they can pray for the individuals and families involved immediately.

The app also connects supporters to one another and encourages them to share with their friends and create mobile prayer groups. It shows the number of people who are already praying for life both in their area and across the US and offers an “impact feed” to celebrate the difference they are making by supporting the cause.

An ‘Events’ feature will also give information on local and national life-affirming events such as the March for Life, while ‘Updates’ will share client stories and updates on OFL.

Online for Life co-founder and president Brian Fisher has said he is “excited” about the newfound ability to connect with supporters and share prayer requests.

“What we love most about the new version is that users can see the direct impact they are having on saving babies, keeping them engaged in the process and encouraged about how they truly can make a difference,” he says.

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BY REY FLORES

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February 19, 2014 (ALL) – When I used to do community organizing work in Chicago, yes I did say community organizing in Chicago, I quickly learned that it was all for naught.

Many of the organizations which claimed to be fighting against this or that or another injustice were often all talk and no action. Don’t get me wrong. There was a lot of action in terms of rallies, protests, and bussing countless poor people to the state capitol at least once a year to pose for pictures with political allies.

The problem is that the actions and activities were just for show. At the end of the day, the affected people were only used as props in a sick game of false and empty social justice—which only served to perpetuate the relevance of the community organizers.

If any of the social injustices they purported to be fighting against were truly eradicated, then there would no longer be a need for the busybody community organizers who are nothing more than parasites profiting off of pimping the poor as a means to their selfish ends.

There is a great difference between “empowerment,” which is a favorite word among community organizers, and “enablement,” which is what the organizers actually did.

They have enabled poor people to embrace victimhood and have sentenced them to the very same bondage they claim to be freeing them from.

Our challenge

Having said all of this, I challenge all of us doing battle to defend life to never fall for these same traps. We must never become complacent and get “comfortable” in our work.

Unlike the community organizers, our work is to end the injustice of abortion. Period. Our complacency would only be our admission that we have accepted abortion because it keeps us busy and, in some cases, paid and working.

While we may see our goal to defend life as an entirely different animal, in reality it is the ultimate fight against the ultimate injustice. We may be community organizers for life, but more accurately we are warriors for life!

I won’t even refer to our work as “the pro-life movement” because it isn’t so much a movement as it is a true and bloody war. Millions of innocents have been murdered and the war is far from over.

Each day that we do battle is a new challenge for us to ask ourselves What more can we do? How can we think and act outside the box and come up with new, creative, and more effective ways to win this war?

We already do a terrific job of empowering men and women with the truth about abortion, contraception, and the overall culture of death.

There is no doubt that many strides have been made, but at the end of the day, thousands of innocent babies are still being slaughtered through chemical and surgical abortions. The lies are being peddled and many are continuing to fall into those same “culture of death” traps.

I leave you with one more question: What else can we collaborate on together to end abortion?

Complacency is Our Greatest Enemy

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