Pelican Project Pro-Life

When I received a letter from Dr. Wanda Franz telling me about the “Proudly Pro-Life Award,” I was, quite simply, overcome with emotion. There is no honor or award that could mean more to me than one from my fellow members of what my friend the late Richard John Neuhaus always called “the greatest grassroots movement of our times.” At the same time, I can’t help but be humbled at the thought of the great men and women to whom you have given this honor in the past. And so I know you will unders

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More craziness from ODO: Obama Volunteer Web Site Serve.Gov Promotes Planned Parenthood Abortion Biz by Steven Ertelt LifeNews.com Editor October 19, 2009 Washington, DC ( LifeNews.com ) — President Barack Obama promised when he was a presidential candidate in July 2007 that he would be a lapdog for the Planned Parenthood abortion business. Obama is now making good on that promise by promoting Planned parenthood on his new volunteerism web site, Serve.gov. Last week, Obama announced

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Lifesite News Bends Over Backward to Defend Kyl’s Remarks on Maternity Care In the category of “gimme a break,” LifeSite News today is bending over backwards to do 3 things: defend Senator Kyl’s recent self-revelatory comment about maternity care (i.e. “I don’t need maternity care) and paint him as “concerned about women;” twist the maternity care debate into a “pro-life” versus “pro-choice” debate and in doing so proving once again that the woman in the equation is just null.

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With all the twists and turns in the health care debate, we keep hearing the question: what’s next? So I wanted to take a minute and sketch out for you what we know from our meetings here in the Nation’s Capital and on the Hill. [this] week, the Senate Finance Committee is poised to vote out its health care reform bill. After that, Majority Leader Harry Reid and his allies will determine the content of the final Senate bill–and Americans want to know what’s in it. The New York Times

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I am wonderfully surprised at this Lens blogpost about Monica Miller, who photographs aborted fetuses, as well as the story behind “Malachi” one of the aborted babies seen in pro-life protests.

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At Jojo Ruba’s Echoes of the Holocaust presentation. The break into Old McDonald had a farm at about the two minute mark. I encourage you to repost this. In fact, I think we should write McGill University and tell them what a disgrace this is. More videos here

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Quoting from The abortioneers , which I featured yesterday . Really, you should read the whole thing. There’s too much to quote. There is violence in abortion, especially in second trimester procedures. Certain moments make this particularly apparent, as another story from my own experience shows. As a third-year resident I spent many days in our hospital abortion clinic. The last patient I saw one day was 23 weeks pregnant. I performed an uncomplicated D&E; procedure. Dutifully, I went

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Planned Parenthood, along with our pro-choice coalition partners, are lobbying on behalf of our Prevention First Agenda, which aims to reduce unintended pregnancy and STDs in Michigan with commonsense health care solutions, like comprehensive sex education in schools and access to birth control and emergency contraception. I work for Planned Parenthood, and as the largest reproductive health care provider and advocate in the country, we know lots of things to be true. Early detection of STDs

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A groundbreaking report detailing the impact of thousands of pregnancy resource centers across America has been released by the Family Research Council. (Click here to download the PDF report.) The report, entitled “A Passion to Serve: A Vision for Life” lays out in detail the manifold contributions of the nation’s pregnancy resource centers to their communities, particularly to women, children, and families. The nature and scope of the pregnancy centers’ mission is outlined in stati

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[Yesterday], in a vote of 10-13 in the Senate Finance Committee, the Hatch Amendment #C14 was defeated. The amendment would have explicitly prohibited federal funding and coverage of abortions. The Committee also voted down an amendment by Senator Hatch that would have prevented discrimination against any individual or entity who refused to provide, pay for, provide coverage of, or refer for abortions. Dr. Charmaine Yoest, President of Americans United for Life recently met with the White H

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