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|Is Sebelius Misinformed or Misinforming About the Senate Health Care Bill and Abortion?
Sunday, March 7th, 2010
With the votes held by Rep. Bart Stupak and his pro-life group of Democrat Representatives standing in the way of the passage of the Senate Health Care Reform bill in the House, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius took to the Sunday talk shows to make the push for the bill.
On Meet the Press, the Secretary said the following in response to host David Gregory’s question as to whether Stupak was misinformed in his belief that the Senate Bill allowed for Federal dollars to be spent on abortion:
“There is no Federal money paying for abortion.”
On page 2355 of The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act passed by the Senate there is provision for direct funding of Community Health Centers without going through the normal process of the annual Health and Human Services appropriation. This would exempt it from the restrictions of the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits Federal funds from being spent to provide abortions.
Is Sebelius misinformed or intentionally misinforming the public?
[In his paragraph above the author refers to page 2355 of The Patient Protection And affordable Care Act. You can read the page in our website’s post
“Healthcare Bill As It Stands Today”
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You won’t see the word abortion used. As he states above funds are given to the Secretary for discretionary distribution to states and Community Health Centers. In this case think Planned Parenthood which does receive federal money today.
Pro-life lawmakers urge end to federal funds to abortion providers
When you go to the bill you will clearly see references to National Health Service meaning single-payer/government option/public option/National Health Care/universal healthcare.
Tags: Abortion, Barack Obama, Congress, Election 2010, government control, Houston Voters, national healthcare, socialized medicine
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Respect Yourself
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
Last month, Catherine Davis and her Atlanta-based Georgia Right to Life organization launched a groundbreaking effort to stop the egregious number of black abortions in their state. The organization decided to use billboards to present its case for life – that’s right – billboards.
The 80-billboard campaign permeates the skyscape of Atlanta. Because of its scale, the campaign is nothing less than cutting-edge innovation. The billboards read, “Black children are an endangered species.” The words encircle the face of an adorable black child. In addition to the message, the only Web address listed is “toomanyaborted.com.”
At the Website, the message is very clear. Their research and statistics are complete. The editorials are also compelling. The Georgia Right to Life group has designed a sophisticated communications vehicle. Yet, it all starts with a winsome message from the billboards. The graphics experts say that billboards can only effectively use seven words – just seven words and a visual impression. Therefore the designers tastefully showed the innocence of a beautiful black baby.
This campaign is controversial, not because of its effect on Atlanta drivers or the average Joe. Changing lives by saying, “Respect yourself!” should hardly be controversial. The controversy arises from their effectiveness as record numbers of black girls are going to their Website. Angry pro-abortion groups and Planned Parenthood have attempted to label GRTL as “deceptive.” GRTL is also accused of working against the best interests of young black women. Some even have demeaned Catherine Davis as, you guessed it, a “sell out.” Once again in opponents’ minds, the “naive black crusader” is being used by white extremists. In response to pro-abortion advocates, Davis has also been pitted against them on CNN, NPR, and in a recent New York Times article.
Despite opponents’ vitriol, GRTL’s work is both tasteful and historic. How is it historic? First, its anti-abortion message is direct and hard-hitting. Second, targeting blacks so directly, without condemnation, is revolutionary. This is a major course correction in anti-abortion marketing. As a result, it is finally piercing the cultural veil over the issue of abortion in the black community.
So who is Catherine Davis?
She is a native of Stamford, Connecticut, a lawyer, and a Magna Cum Laude graduate of the prestigious Tufts University. Thirteen years ago, she moved to Georgia to become a change agent. In 2006, Catherine Davis ran for Congress in Georgia, because she had a desire to impact her community. After a crushing political defeat, she felt unsupported by her Republican Party and ostracized by the Democrats. She decided to take on an advocacy role. Continued…
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Tags: Abortion, Barack Obama, Congress, Election 2010, Houston Voters
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Black Conservatives Praise CBS, Focus on the Family and the Tebow Family
Friday, February 5th, 2010
The National Center for Public Policy Research
Washington, DC: Members of the Project 21 black leadership network are speaking out in support of Focus on the Family and the family of former Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow for their efforts to air a pro-family commercial message during this weekend’s Super Bowl broadcast.
Project 21 members are also praising the CBS television network for not giving in to pressure to not air the ad.
Lisa Fritsch: “Tim Tebow is one famous example of the countless children born in the face of challenging circumstances. These children deserve a voice and a right to life just like so many who have been traditionally discriminated against through poverty and racism. Their civil rights are exactly the same: to be given the chance at life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I applaud CBS for recognizing the fundamental issue of the rights of the minority that, in this case, just happens to be a mother who chose life – and a life that has given so much back to others.” (Lisa Fritsch is a member of the national advisory council for the Project 21 black leadership network and a community activist, writer, public speaker and talk radio host in the Austin, Texas area.)
R. Dozier Gray: “Focus on the Family should be praised for exercising their freedom of speech in promoting family and life. It’s important to remember that the counter to speech that one person may find disagreeable is more speech. No one should be denied such freedom. If pro-abortion groups disagree with the Tebow family’s message, they are free to run their own ad. Though I will never support abortion, I will always support their right to speak up in favor of it. I ask only that those who do also afford me and those who agree with me the same courtesy.” (Dozier Gray is a member of the national advisory council for the Project 21 black leadership network and a combat veteran. He is the author of the recent Project 21 New Visions Commentary “Black Genocide and Black Acquiescence” on abortion that can be found at http://www.nationalcenter.org/P21NVGrayAbortion90110.html.)
Mychal Massie: “Feminist attempts to pressure CBS into not running Focus on the Family’s Tim Tebow ad are ludicrous. It reveals a radical agenda that prizes abortion over all other things. Opponents argue the Super Bowl isn’t the proper forum for a family message, or that it will detract from the game. But it’s interesting that they have no apparent concern for other ads that feature women losing their clothing or being made the butt of jokes. This motivation to aggressively pursue the silencing of an ad contradicts the very essence of what they purport to stand for – choice. They can no longer hide behind glib, coded euphemisms designed to mask their true agenda. The curtain has been pulled back and the eugenicist genie has been unambiguously exposed.” (Mychal Massie is chairman of Project 21, a columnist for WorldNetDaily, and a former talk show host and businessman. His 2005 New Visions Commentary “Can the Unborn Save Future Generations?” can be found at http://www.nationalcenter.org/P21NVMassieAbortion105.html.)
Focus on the Family bought commercial time during CBS’s Super Bowl broadcast on February 7. While the ad is not available for review, it reportedly will feature Pam Tebow, who was advised to have an abortion for health reasons in 1987. She did not, and her son Tim grew up to play college football and won the Heisman Trophy in 2007.
Feminist groups are pressuring CBS, which has “moderated” its policy regarding advocacy ads, to pull the ad.
Project 21, established in 1992, is sponsored by the National Center for Public Policy Research (http://www.nationalcenter.org), a non-profit foundation established in 1982 and funded primarily from the gifts of over 100,000 recent individual donors.
Tags: Abortion, Election 2010, Houston, Houston Voters, Super Bowl Ad
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Abortion, health care, and socialism
Thursday, January 7th, 2010
A recent headline in the Los Angeles Times read, “Babies are found to cry in their mother tongue.”
Contrary to a popular fallacy that science and religion are at odds with each other, it’s quite the opposite.
Science and religion are the best of friends. And like good friends, they complement each other and produce beautiful music together.
Take the recent incident of the young woman in Bryan, Texas — the director of the Planned Parenthood abortion mill down there — who had a change of heart and quit her job when she saw, for the first time, an unborn child on an ultrasound screen.
As Abby Johnson related her story to Bill O’Reilly, “….what I saw on the screen was a 13-week baby fighting for its life.”
She walked out the door, went down the road and joined a local pro-life organization.
The discoveries and technologies that we gain from science make us more aware, confirm and help us understand even more clearly the truths that our religion and faith teach us. As result, like Abby Johnson, we become more responsible.
According to Johnson, “….Planned Parenthood really tries to instill in their employees and the women coming in for abortions that this is not a baby, that this is just a mass of cells. You know, don’t say “baby” in the clinic. Don’t say “baby” to the women coming in for an abortion. And so you begin to believe that. You begin to believe that it’s not a life.”
A recent headline in the Los Angeles Times read, “Babies are found to cry in their mother tongue.”
The article reported on just published research by French and German scientists showing that the cries of French babies start out low and increase to a high pitch and for German babies it’s the opposite — starting out high and falling. According to the scientists, these “patterns matched the intonation patterns of spoken French…and German.”
The French and German research teams say the unborn babies start hearing and picking up their mother’s language during their third trimester, a stage when, in our country, they can still be aborted. As science documents the magic of the life of the developing infant, public awareness grows and the willingness to tolerate abortion atrocities diminishes. When we understand that our unborn children are human we become more human ourselves. Continued…
Star Parker is coming to Houston to participate in the protest against the abortion clinic.
Ms Parker’s biography:
Star Parker is the founder and president of CURE, the Coalition for Urban Renewal & Education, a 501c3 think tank which explores and promotes market based public policy to fight poverty.
Before involvement in social activism, Star Parker had seven years of first-hand experience in the grip of welfare dependency. Now, as a social policy consultant, Star is bringing new energy to policy discussions on traditional mores, limited government and private ownership. She provides regular testimony before the US Congress, and is a sought after expert for radio, television, and print, nationwide.
Star has a BS degree in Marketing and Business from Woodbury University and has received numerous awards and commendations for her work. She has lectured on poverty issues at more than 180 colleges and universities and has served on advisory boards for several organizations ranging from Carenet to the Cato Institute.
Star Parker’s personal transformation from welfare dependent to conservative crusader has been chronicled by ABC’s 20/20; Rush Limbaugh; Readers Digest; Dr. James Dobson; The 700 Club; Dr. George Grant; Christianity Today; Rev. James Robison; Newsmax, Charisma, and World Magazine.
Other major accomplishments include speaking at the 1996 Republican National Convention, and coproducing and hosting a documentary on affirmative action with the BBC in London. She has debated Jesse Jackson on various headline issues; she fought for school choice on Larry King Live; she defended welfare reform on the Oprah Winfrey Show, and she debated healthcare reform against Michael Moore on ABC’s The View with host Barbara Walters.
Currently, Star is a regular commentator on CNN, TBN, CNBC, CBN, and FOX News. Articles and quotes by Star continuously appear in major publications around the world. She has written three books. “Pimps, Whores & Welfare Brats”, “Uncle Sam’s Plantation”, and “White Ghetto: How Middle Class America Reflects Inner CityDecay.”
Today, in addition to heading CURE, Star is a syndicated columnist for Scripps News Service, offering weekly op-eds to more than 300 newspapers worldwide, including the Boston Herald, the Dallas Morning News, the Orange County Register, the Korean Times, the Washington Times, and the Star and Stripes, the largest paper serving the men and women of our Armed Forces.
Tags: Abortion, Abortion Clinic in Houston, Election 2010, Houston Voters, Star Parker
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Pro-Life Advocates Plan to Protest Opening of Largest Abortion Clinic in U.S.
Thursday, January 7th, 2010
Planned Parenthood is renovating a former bank, turning it into a 78,000 square foot facility that will include a surgical wing equipped to provide late-term abortions.
“It’s an abortion super center,” Lou Engle, founder of the pro-life group The Call to Conscience, which is organizing the rally, told CNSNews.com.
Joining Engle at the “prayer march” will be Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, and Samuel Rodriguez, president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference. Religious leaders expected to attend include Bishop Harry Jackson, senior pastor of Hope Christian Church; Richard Land, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention; Star Parker, president of the Coalition for Urban Renewal and Education; and Abby Johnson, the former director of a Planned Parenthood clinic.
Engle compared the fight for the rights of the unborn to another critical movement in America. “As Martin Luther King, Jr. said, ‘It is time to subpoena the conscience of America,’” he said.
Engle said he believes the clinic was strategically located in a part of Houston that is surrounded by black and Hispanic neighborhoods.
“We want to say that it’s not right to have an abortion super center that targets the minority community,” Engle said. He says Planned Parenthood actively markets its services, including abortion, to low-income, minority women.
Last month, Houston elected the first lesbian, Annise Parker, to hold the mayoral office in a major U.S. city. Until her inauguration this week, the director of Health and Environmental Policy for the mayor’s office was Elena Marks, chairwoman of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
Attempts to reach Marks for comment on the clinic and the planned rally were unsuccessful.
Tags: Abortion, Abortion Clinic in Houston, Election 2010, Houston Voters
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Outrage Over ACORN, but Not Abortion (Where Does Sheila Jackson Lee Stand on Acorn)
Monday, October 5th, 2009
by Star Parker
The ACORN scandal shows that if Congress wants to act, it can.
Within weeks of Fox airing videos of a couple posing as a pimp and a prostitute being advised by ACORN “community organizers” on how to evade taxes and set up a prostitution ring, our stalwart Washington legislators voted to cut off federal funds to the organization.
But similar publicized abuses at Planned Parenthood — workers agreeing to cover up rape or earmarking funds to abort black babies — all captured on video and audio — produced no similar action in Washington to cut off funds.
Why?
Congress acts when voters demand it. And, sadly, the decibel level of outrage about abortion, let alone federal funds supporting abortion enablers, is not great enough.
A hint of the problem is evident in a new abortion survey released by the Pew Research Center.
The good news for “pro-lifers” is that sentiment continues to move against abortion. Forty five percent now believe abortion should be illegal in most cases, up four points from a year ago, and 47 percent believe it should be legal, down seven points from last year.
Tags: Abortion, Congress, cover-up, rape
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Who Cares About Margaret Sanger? Should Sheila Jackson Lee?
Monday, September 8th, 2008
Does Sheila Jackson Lee approve of the largest late-term abortion clinic being in her district?
Margaret Sanger was the founder of Planned Parenthood. Wasn’t she the one who performed a service to society by making abortion and contraception available . No! Not actually. Only to a few. Rather than talk abot the few, let’s look at the many.
Her purpose was to prevent reproduction by the many:
“On blacks, immigrants and indigents:
“…human weeds,’ ‘reckless breeders,’ ’spawning… human beings who never should have been born.” Margaret Sanger, Pivot of Civilization, referring to immigrants and poor people
On sterilization & racial purification:
Sanger believed that, for the purpose of racial “purification,” couples should be rewarded who chose sterilization. Birth Control in America, The Career of Margaret Sanger, by David Kennedy, p. 117, quoting a 1923 Sanger speech.
Go here for the details: In Her Own Words
She doesn’t look like a happy, benevolent person.
Why is she mentioned on this blog? John Faulk has found out that the largest late-term abortion clinic is located in your neighborhood. Who are they targeting. You! Planned Parenthood doesn’t think you should be here. Well read Candidate John Faulk’s letter below and get them out of here. And mark your calendar.
Please help me get this information out.
The Planned Parenthood’s largest late-term abortion facility in the Western Hemisphere is located in the Texas 18th Congressional District.
Congressional Challengers Eric Story ( TX 29 CD) and John Faulk (TX 18 CD) are hosting a Pro-Life Town Hall Meeting this Thursday, September 11, 2008 at Berean Baptist Church, 102050 North Freeway (I 45 North At West Road), Houston, TX77037.
Center for Bio-Ethical Reform (CBR) trucks will be displaying 22 feet by 7 feet images of aborted human beings throughout Houston on September 8, 9 & 10.
On Monday, September 8 between 12 noon and 1 PM, the moving billboards will be driven in support of the Houston Coalition for Life’s protests at 4600 Gulf Freeway. This site is being remodeled by Planned Parenthood into the largest late-term abortion facility in the Western Hemisphere.
On Tuesday, the moving billboards will be driven on busy downtown streets, the University of Houston’s main campus and around a high school campus.
On Wednesday between 12 noon and 1 PM, the moving billboards will be driven in support of the Houston Coalition for Life’s protest at the 1770 St. James Place offices of Meyerson Builders Inc., the general contractor for the remodeling the late-term abortion facility.
On Thursday the Pro-Life Town Hall Meeting will give you an opportunity to discuss what your vote can do to stop this genocide.
It has been estimated that out of the 53 million babies that have been aborted since Roe vrs. Wade, 13 million were have been African-American. Perhaps one of those aborted African-Americans would have had the opportunity to be the first African-American to run for President!
This election will change the fabric of the United States of America. Your informed vote is all that is needed to change the course of history.
Please go to rsvp@faulkforcongress.org to RSVP your attendance to the Pro-Life Town Hall Meeting this Thursday, September 11, 2008 at Berean Baptist Church, 102050 North Freeway (I 45 North At West Road), Houston, TX77037.
John Faulk
McCain, Palin, & Faulk
A Winning Team for TX 18 CD!
Tags: Abortion, Northwest Houston, Parental Rights, reckless breeders, Texas 18th Congressional District
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Sheila Jackson Lee on Family Values, Children and the Right to Life
Friday, July 25th, 2008
When it comes to supporting family values and our kids, Sheila smugly kisses the camera and then she turns around and votes quite differently.
The majority of us in the South are God fearing, church going folk who try and live honorably.
On one hand she stands up in Congress, pretending to be a crusader for children, calling them “our most precious resource”:
But then she turns around and votes against families, children and the unborn in every way imaginable:
- Voted YES on expanding research to more embryonic stem cell lines. (Jan 2007)
- Ensure access to and funding for contraception. (Feb 2007)
- Expand contraceptive services for low-income women. (May 2006)
- Rated 0% by the NRLC, indicating a pro-choice stance. (Dec 2006)
- Voted NO on restricting interstate transport of minors to get abortions. (Apr 2005)
- Voted YES on allowing human embryonic stem cell research. (May 2005)
- Voted NO on making it a crime to harm a fetus during another crime. (Feb 2004)
- Voted NO on permanently eliminating the marriage penalty. (Apr 2004)
- Voted NO on making permanent an increase in the child tax credit. (May 2004)
- Voted NO on forbidding human cloning for reproduction & medical research. (Feb 2003)
- Voted NO on banning partial-birth abortion except to save mother’s life. (Oct 2003)
- Rated 7% by the Christian Coalition: an anti-family voting record. (Dec 2003)
- Voted NO on making the Bush tax cuts permanent. (Apr 2002)
- Voted NO on funding for health providers who don’t provide abortion info. (Sep 2002)
- Voted NO on reducing Marriage Tax by $399B over 10 years. (Mar 2001)
- Voted NO on federal crime to harm fetus while committing other crimes. (Apr 2001)
- Voted NO on eliminating the Estate Tax (”death tax”). (Apr 2001)
- Voted NO on banning partial-birth abortions. (Apr 2000)
- Voted NO on eliminating the “marriage penalty”. (Jul 2000)
- Voted NO on barring transporting minors to get an abortion. (Jun 1999)
- Supported funding contraception and UN family planning. (Jul 1999)
That’s quite a resume Sheila!
Is that your form of “Social Engineering” Sheila.. Prevent them or exterminate them before they cost taxpayers in the Socialized Medical Plan you envision?
When I look at the dichotomy expressed between her passionate play at the camera above on the Congressional Floor expressing herself as a “child advocate” and then review her Congressional Voting Record, I just can’t hook them up.
I don’t even know what to think except to say that we all need to stand together and send her packing this election year. All over America this election year there are grassroots organizations preparing to send ineffective Congressional Representatives home and that’s what we intend to do with Sheila Jackson-Lee. She has worn out her welcome in Houston and we are going to send her home this year!
Come join us, she’s heavily entrenched and outspends her competitors by hundreds of thousands of dollars every election year. We need volunteers and contributors.
You can help us send John Faulk to Congress in November, today.
Engineer2
Tags: Abortion, Child Advocate, child tax credit, Family Values, Marriage Penalty, Sheila Jackson Lee, Taxes
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