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Democrats are the Party of Abortion and Joe Biden is Their Standard-Bearer

Wed, 21 Oct 2020 23:19:16 GMT

The fiery preaching of a Maryland Catholic priest is catching the intense attention of Catholics and other pro-life Christians via the internet.

In a recent Sunday homily, Father Ed Meeks, pastor of Christ the King parish in Towson, MD, called Vice President Biden “unabashedly pro-abortion.” The Democratic Party “the party of death and Joe Biden is their standard bearer.”

Here is the link to the entire homily.

Father Meeks warned that “powerful forces” in government, the media, and the high technology industry are “working aggressively to silence the Church through legislation, lies, intimidation and censorship.” He said the country is “starring into the abyss.”

“We are, as a nation, staring into the abyss stemming from our culture’s wholesale rejection of God and His law,” Father Meeks said, “a rejection manifested most tangibly in five decades of legalized abortion.”

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One Evangelical Protestant commented in a text message sharing the video, “This priest is defending godly principles against the actions of Joe Biden.” Father Meeks, the texter said, also “condemns the rest of the evangelical church as we sit silent while evil attempts to prevail.”

Father Meeks called on “faithful Catholics and other Christians to stand up courageously and forthrightly and say enough is enough.”

While making it clear that he is not telling anyone how to vote, Father Meeks said Mr. Biden who claims to be a practicing Catholic, “Stands in very public, very obstinate opposition to Church teaching,” about the sanctity of human life and the preservation of religious liberty –the “moral principles where the Church draws a clear line in the sand.”

“Be aware of the reality before we cast our vote,” Father Meeks said. “The stakes involved far transcend politics.”

Netflix Loses Thousands of Subscribers After "Cuties” Program Sexualizing Kids

Wed, 21 Oct 2020 23:04:23 GMT

Sexualize little girls, earn little profit.

Streaming giant Netflix announced Tuesday that it missed its Q3 new subscriptions target, plunging its stock by five percent. According to Axios, nobody thought the company could continue to grow at the same rate as it had in the first half of the year, but “analysts were still expecting it to meet expectations of at least 3.3 million net new global subscribers.”

Didn’t happen. Why? Neither Netflix or Axios bring up the possibility, but it could be backlash from streaming — and repeatedly defending — the French pedo-bait film Cuties. After all, how many companies are targeted with their very own hashtag campaign that becomes a Twitter top trend? #CancelNetflix, a direct response to Cuties, definitely had a short-term impact on subscriptions. Maybe it hurt over the long-haul too.

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Netflix blames the pandemic for its Q3 disappointments, stating in a shareholders letter that Covid “continues to make projections very uncertain, but as the world hopefully recovers in 2021, we would expect that our growth will revert back to levels similar to pre-COVID.”

And by then, most people will have forgotten that a Texas grand jury indicted the company for “promotion of lewd visual material depicting [a] child,” and that the Parents Television Council has asked the U.S. DOJ to investigate “a broader, consistent pattern of Netflix sexualizing children.” Or not. The PTC has a whole list of Netflix programs with content involving kids and sex that should make normal people plenty queasy.

Sophisticated lefties have of course defended the movie, arguing that it is a ‘social commentary’ that makes the case about the dangers of sexualized imagery of young girls. Except that sophisticated people should be able to think of ways to discuss sexualized imagery of young girls without actually contributing to it.

And Netflix has tried playing First Amendment martyr, saying it’s shocked — SHOCKED! — that anyone in “2020 America would try “censoring storytelling.”

Tell it to the judge. In the meantime, it seems like consumers are judging Netflix, and it’s coming up short.

LifeNews Note: Matt Philbin writes for Newsbusters, where this originally appeared.

Colorado Ballot Measure 115 Would Stop Killing Babies in Abortions Up to Birth

Wed, 21 Oct 2020 22:33:21 GMT

Pro-life Democrat leaders are urging Coloradans to vote “yes” on Proposition 115 on Nov. 3 to save thousands of babies from late-term abortions.

Speaking with the Catholic News Agency, Dr. Tom Perille, president of the Democrats for Life of Colorado, said many Democrats and even some pro-choice voters support ending late-term abortions in their state.

“Prop. 115 should pass because it appeals to the moral sensibilities of Coloradans and reflects a popular consensus when abortion restrictions are appropriate,” Perille, a retired physician, told the news outlet. “If a baby born prematurely at 22 weeks enjoys all the rights and privileges of other Colorado citizens and is protected by state/federal law, a fetus in utero at that exact same gestational age should not be able to be legally and cruelly killed.”

The ballot measure would protect viable, pain-capable unborn babies by banning late-term abortions after 22 weeks of pregnancy. Exceptions would be allowed if the mother’s life is at risk.

Colorado is one of the few states with no limits on abortions, and abortionists there openly advertise abortions in the third trimester.

Though Coloradans lean left, Perille said they also understand science and basic human rights.

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“Most Coloradans recognize that a 22-week fetus is a fully formed, if immature, human being. They are repulsed by those who refer to this vital human being as ‘pregnancy tissue,’” he said. “Coloradans are willing to accept reasonable restrictions on abortion after fetal viability.”

Even some pro-choice people whom he has encountered support the proposition.

“I recall one woman, in particular, who said she was pro-choice, but quickly added that she was born prematurely at 28 weeks gestation. She knew what it was like to be born premature,” he told CNA. “She was emphatic that at 22 weeks ‘It’s a baby.’”

A recent poll by 9 News/Colorado Politics found that more than one in four Colorado Democrats support the proposition. According to the report, the poll showed a near-even split with 42 percent of voters planning to vote “yes” and 45 percent “no.” Broken down, the “yes” voters include 63 percent of Republicans, 28 percent of Democrats and 35 percent of independents.

Kristin Vail, vice president of Democrats for Life of Colorado, said most people are shocked when they learn that Colorado allows unborn babies to be aborted for any reason up to birth.

“People travel from all over the U.S. and even the world to Colorado to get late-term abortions,” she told CNA. “I don’t think people want our state to be known for that.”

If it passes, the ballot measure could save thousands of babies’ lives. Colorado reported 171 abortions at 21 weeks or later in 2019, according to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. However, a department official admitted that the number is almost certainly an under-count, and pro-lifers estimate the number is closer to 300.

Colorado is very liberal politically, and pro-life advocates have had a difficult time passing pro-life laws there. Even fetal homicide laws to punish criminals who kill unborn babies in situations unrelated to abortion have been rejected repeatedly by the state legislature.

However, pro-lifers believe a 22-week abortion limit could gain the support of moderate voters who do not think abortions should be outlawed but do support modest restrictions. Polls consistently show that most Americans oppose late-term abortions after a baby is viable.

Doctors and scientists support Proposition 115, too, citing evidence of the value and humanity of unborn babies.

“As healthcare professionals we are totally aware of the science of human development. The humanity of a 22-week fetus is apparent to each of us. There can be no doubt that the 22-week fetus is fully alive and fully human,” they wrote in an open letter in September.

They said premature babies are surviving at 22 weeks, and their survival rates are growing. At some hospitals in the U.S., the survival rate of a premature baby born at 22 weeks of pregnancy is 70 percent, they wrote.

Abortion lobbyists admit that most late-term abortions are done on healthy mothers carrying healthy babies. According to research by the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute, “most women seeking later terminations are not doing so for reasons of fetal anomaly or life endangerment.”

Democrats Will Boycott Senate Judiciary Committee Vote for Amy Coney Barrett

Wed, 21 Oct 2020 21:23:51 GMT

Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee will reportedly boycott Thursday’s committee vote on Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett.

In a political stunt, the pro-abortion Democrats on the panel will instead fill their seats with life-size posters of people they claim will be hurt if the Supreme Court, with Amy Coney Barrett on it, overturns any part of Obamacare. Instead of attending the hearing and vote, Democrats will reportedly give speeches on health care as a way to oppose Judge Barrett and President Trump, who appointed her to replace outgoing pro-abortion Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

The liberal Huffington Post first reported the boycott news today and indicated “Democrats also intend to hold two press conferences to push back on Barrett’s confirmation ― one on the Capitol steps and one on the Supreme Court steps.”

The publicity stunt won’t stop Judge Barrett’s nomination.

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The news comes after a new national poll shows Americans support the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett by a 23% margin. It follows a Gallup poll showing a majority of Americans support her nomination.

A new Morning Consult poll shows Americans support Barrett on a 51-28% margin, and that 23 percentage point difference is an increase from the 17% margin found in the firm’s previous poll.

“Following four days of hearings, 51 percent of voters said the Senate should vote to confirm Barrett to the Supreme Court, up 3 percentage points from the week before and an increase of 14 points since Trump announced her nomination on Sept. 26. It’s a higher level of support than Morning Consult measured at any time during the confirmation processes for Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh — the two other jurists Trump has tapped for the high court during his presidency,” the polling firm indicated.

The Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to vote Thursday, setting up a final vote by the full Senate on Monday.

During the confirmation hearings, Judge Barrett says she doesn’t consider the Roe v. Wade decision that allowed abortion on demand a “super-precedent” that can’t be overturned.

Judge Barrett said Roe is not in same category as the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling, which declared segregated public schools unconstitutional because there is still a massive debate about whether Roe is legitimate.

In comments during her confirmation process, Judge Amy Coney Barrett also confirmed she is committed to the rule of law.

“I’m committed to the rule of law and the rule of the court,” she said. “If I give off-the-cuff answers then I would be basically a legal pundit and I do not think we want judges to be legal pundit. I think we want judges to approach cases thoughtfully and with an open mind.”

Judge Amy Coney Barrett delivered her opening remarks to the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday and she made two major points.

First, she talked about the proper role of the courts, saying they are not supposed to make law and legislate from the bench. She also refused to back down to attacks from Senate Democrats on her faith, saying she strongly believes in prayer and thanked the many Americans who are prayer for her amid those attacks on her Christian faith.

“I believe in the power of prayer and it’s been uplifting that so many people have been praying for me,” Judge Barrett told members of the judicial panel.

“Nothing is more important to me, and I am so proud to have them behind me,” she added.

Before that, Judge Barrett discussed the proper role of the Supreme Court.

“Courts are not designed to solve every problem or right every wrong in our life,” she explained. “The policy decisions and value judgments of government must be made by the political branches elected by and accountable to the People. The public should not expect courts to do so, and courts should not try.”

“When I write an opinion resolving a case, I read every word from the perspective of the losing party. I ask myself how would I view the decision if one of my children was the party I was ruling against,” she went on to say. “Even though I would not like the result, would I understand that the decision was fairly reasoned and grounded in the law? That is the standard I set for myself in every case, and it is the standard I will follow as long as I am a judge on any court.”

The liberal American Bar Association has given President Donald Trump’s latest Supreme Court nominee its highest rating, issuing the rating on the opening day of her Supreme Court confirmation hearings in the Senate.

Last week, a new national poll showed Americans support the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett by double-digit margins.

A new Morning Consult poll shows Americans support Barrett on a 46-31% margin and that 15% margin of support is an increase from the polling firms last national survey in September following her nomination. That poll had Americans backing Barrett 37-34%, a resulting 12% increase from the 3% margin previously.

“Democrats are losing the Supreme Court messaging war, new polling indicates, with support for Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation trending in the GOP’s direction,” the polling firm indicated. “Nearly half (46 percent) of voters in an Oct. 2-4 Morning Consult/Politico poll said the Senate should confirm Barrett — up 9 percentage points since President Donald Trump announced her nomination on Sept. 26 — as more voters say the chamber should consider her elevation to the high court as soon as possible, regardless of who wins next month’s election.”

Seventy-seven percent of GOP voters back Barrett’s confirmation, up 6 points from late last month. Among independents, the share who said she should be confirmed increased 8 points, to 36 percent, while the share of Democratic voters who said she should be confirmed increased 10 points, to 24 percent.

Even Democratic voters have softened their opposition to Barrett’s confirmation: The latest survey found 59 percent said the Senate should wait to see who wins the election, compared with 79 percent who said in the wake of Ginsburg’s death that the election winner should pick the next justice.

It’s not as if Barrett’s nomination is flying completely under the radar. Though 1 in 5 voters initially heard “a lot” about it, that share had doubled just a few days later following the first presidential debate.

Barrett, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame and judge on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, believes life begins at conception and has noted how both pro-life and pro-abortion legal experts have criticized Roe v. Wade as a bad decision. Barrett criticized the ruling for “ignit[ing] a national controversy” through judicial fiat.

Though her judicial rulings on abortion are few, she did rule in support of two Indiana pro-life laws during her time on the Seventh Circuit. She also has made several statements about the value of babies in the womb. According to the Law and Crime blog, Barrett signed a public letter in 2015 that emphasized “the value of human life from conception to natural death.”

Judge Amy Barrett was number one on the Supreme Court wish list for most pro-life voters and she was also the first potential high court nominee to get an in-person meeting with President Donald Trump. That’s not a surprising considering the president previous said he was “saving her” for an appointment to the Supreme Court should Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg retire or pass away.

Barrett, a mother of seven, was a former law clerk to Justice Antonin Scalia. Like Scalia, Barrett describes herself as an “originalist” judge.

When it comes to abortion cases, Barrett has been on the pro-life side. She voted in 2016 to allow a hearing on a pro-life law from the state of Indiana that requires abortion centers to offer a proper burial or cremation for babies they kill in abortions. And in 2019, she voted to allow a hearing on another Indiana pro-life law allowing parents to be notified when their teenage daughter is considering an abortion so they can help her make a better decision for her and her baby.

New Poll Shows 61% of Americans Oppose Joe Biden Packing the Supreme Court

Wed, 21 Oct 2020 20:55:00 GMT

Nearly two in three voters say they oppose 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden adding more Supreme Court justices if he is elected, according to a poll exclusively obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

The Marist poll, sponsored by the pro-life Susan B. Anthony List, found that 61% of voters oppose Biden packing the court. This number includes 63% of Independents and 31% of Democrats.

“Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will not give voters a straight answer about whether they’ll pack the courts because the answer is ‘yes,’ and it’s a deeply unpopular answer,” SBA List President Marjorie Dannenfelser said in a statement to the DCNF.

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“It is the latest example of Joe Biden being completely beholden to the most extreme elements of the Democratic Party, who have long relied on the courts to impose their agenda of abortion on demand through birth,” she continued.

The Marist poll surveyed 1,551 adults between Oct. 14 – 15 with a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5%.

A Morning Consult poll released Wednesday also found that 51% of voters said the Senate should confirm Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett, numbers which have risen three percentage points from last week. Morning Consult found that Barrett has more support from voters than Trump Supreme Court nominees Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh had at any time during their confirmation processes.

An EWTN News and RealClear Opinion Research poll released Monday evening also found that 46% of Catholics support Barrett’s confirmation. Twenty-eight percent of Catholics opposed Barrett’s confirmation, and 27% of Catholics said they needed more information.

LifeNews Note: Mary Margaret Olohan writes for Daily Caller. Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience.ste

Mom Shares Photo of Her Miscarried Baby to Show Humanity of Unborn Children

Wed, 21 Oct 2020 20:19:48 GMT

Photos of a tiny baby who was miscarried at 10 weeks of pregnancy are serving as a witness to the value of every human life on Facebook.

The baby’s mother, Brandy Hogue Plunkett, posted the photos online Oct. 8 to help people understand that her daughter was a precious human being, Live Action News reports.

“Although she was born far too early (April 1, 2006) due to health issues (possibly spina bifida or gastroschisis), she was still perfectly whole,” Plunkett wrote.

She said her daughter’s due date was exactly 14 years ago. The photos show her unborn daughter’s fingers and toes, her eyes, ears, nose and mouth.

“I feel like this is an incredible time to bring up the fact that anyone looking at this photo can easily tell this IS a baby,” Plunkett wrote. “This is what any baby would resemble at only 10 weeks. 10 fingers, 10 toes, eyes, ears and nose.”

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By 10 weeks of pregnancy, unborn babies already are incredibly developed. Their hearts have been beating for at least a month, and their brain waves are detectable, according to the Endowment for Human Development.

“By 9 weeks the hands move, the neck turns, and hiccups begin. Girls now have ovaries and boys have testes,” the endowment states. “By 10 weeks kidneys begin to produce and release urine, and intermittent breathing motions begin. … The hands and feet move frequently and most embryos show the first signs of right- or left-handedness.”

Plunkett said she also wanted to raise awareness about the humanity of unborn babies because of what is at stake in the upcoming election.

“Former Vice President Joe Biden pledged his support for legal abortion on Monday evening, promising to make Roe v. Wade ‘the law of the land’ if he’s elected president,” she wrote.

Biden not only has promised to keep abortions legal without restriction. He also said he wants to force taxpayers to pay for them.

Abortions destroy more than 800,000 unborn babies’ lives every year in the United States. Most abortions occur in the first trimester, before babies are fully developed and viable outside the womb. None of this, however, makes them any less valuable. From the moment of conception, unborn babies are unique, living human beings with their own separate DNA. By the time most women find out that they are pregnant, their unborn babies already have heartbeats.

Joe Scarborough: You’re "Un-American” if You Vote for President Trump

Wed, 21 Oct 2020 19:42:42 GMT

While most left-wing journalists try to channel all their anger at President Trump, they will occasionally go straight to the punch and just start attacking people who support him. On Tuesday morning, the co-hosts of MSNBC’s Morning Joe scolded American voters who dare, for any reason, to vote for Trump.

With Election Day exactly two weeks away, and millions of Americans already voting, co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski decided it was time to launch a brutal verbal assault against Trump supporters. Apparently triggered by Trump speaking publicly about the Biden family’s alleged corruption on Monday, Scarborough whined that it’s unacceptable to vote for him for any reason:

So, all of these people saying, ‘Oh, you know what, I just don’t vote for Democrats,’ ‘Oh, you know what, I’m just voting for him because of regulations,’ ‘Oh, you know, he doesn’t—‘ Donald Trump, in the last two weeks of the campaign, is raging at his attorney general for not arresting his political opponent. If you’re voting for Donald Trump, that’s who you’re voting for. And if you’re voting for that man who, two weeks from Election Day, is calling for the arrest of his opponent, then you have absolutely no idea what America is about. Let me say it again: you have no idea what this country’s about if you’re supporting a man who, two weeks out, is calling for the arrest of his—you can’t—you can’t explain that away. You can’t explain that away to history. You can’t explain that away to your children or grandchildren. You just can’t. And you can’t plead ignorance because you know better.

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Then, with his nose high up in the air, Scarborough finished his tantrum: “[H]ow anybody can vote for him? I don’t care what your ideology is. I don’t care what your regulations are. I mean, two weeks out, saying that his opponent should be arrested. It is beyond the pale. It is un-American. There’s no other way to put it.”

Co-host Mika Brzezinski, of course, was obligated to back him up: “And you make that great point, Joe, that you don’t understand what this country is about, if you’re going to vote for him.”

From listening to the co-hosts, it sounds like this is an election where American voters get to decide between America [voting for Biden] and Trump. This insulting “America or Trump” narrative was apparently the theme of the day, as Morning Joe also featured a commercial from the Lincoln Project that used this narrative to endorse Joe Biden. MSNBC has made its message clear: voting for Trump borders on treason.

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LifeNews Note: John Shannon is Staff Writer for MRC Culture at the Media Research Center where this originally appeared.

Americans Back Amy Coney Barrett’s Confirmation By 23% Margin

Wed, 21 Oct 2020 19:21:11 GMT

A new national poll shows Americans support the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett by a 23% margin. It follows a Gallup poll showing a majority of Americans support her nomination.

A new Morning Consult poll shows Americans support Barrett on a 51-28% margin, and that 23 percentage point difference is an increase from the 17% margin found in the firm’s previous poll.

Here’s more:

There’s been a slight uptick in support for Barrett’s confirmation among GOP voters, but the bulk of the movement was driven by independents, a 44 percent plurality of whom now back her confirmation, and Democrats. The share of Democratic voters who back Barrett’s confirmation (32 percent) is up 5 points from the previous week, and up 18 points from the day Trump nominated her, while the share who say she should be voted down has fallen to 48 percent.

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Just over a third of voters (34 percent) said they’d seen, read or heard “a lot” about Barrett’s confirmation hearings, which garnered ample attention from cable news networks and the national press. It’s more than the 27 percent each who said the same of the dueling televised town halls for Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Oct.15, but less than the 38 percent who’d heard a lot about Barrett’s nomination in the days after Sept. 26 or the 58 percent who’d heard a lot about Ginsburg’s death on Sept. 18.

The Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to vote Thursday, setting up a final vote by the full Senate on Monday.

During the confirmation hearings, Judge Barrett says she doesn’t consider the Roe v. Wade decision that allowed abortion on demand a “super-precedent” that can’t be overturned.

In comments during her confirmation process, Judge Amy Coney Barrett also confirmed she is committed to the rule of law.

Judge Amy Coney Barrett delivered her opening remarks to the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday and she made two major points.

“I believe in the power of prayer and it’s been uplifting that so many people have been praying for me,” Judge Barrett told members of the judicial panel.

“Nothing is more important to me, and I am so proud to have them behind me,” she added.

Before that, Judge Barrett discussed the proper role of the Supreme Court.

Last week, a new national poll showed Americans support the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett by double-digit margins.

Barrett, a mother of seven, was a former law clerk to Justice Antonin Scalia. Like Scalia, Barrett describes herself as an “originalist” judge.

Andrew Cuomo’s Nursing Home Order Killed Her In-Laws, Now She Wants Him Held Accountable

Wed, 21 Oct 2020 17:22:06 GMT

Janice Dean is leading the call for accountability from New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo after his order requiring nursing homes to take COVID-19 patients exposed elderly, vulnerable people to the virus.

Dean, a senior meteorologist at Fox News and New York Times bestselling author, said both of her in-laws died from the coronavirus in March in assisted living and nursing home facilities in New York.

She believes Cuomo’s order led to her in-laws’ and other loved ones’ deaths. And she wants an investigation, The Federalist reports.

New York has the highest COVID-19 death count and one of the highest death rates in the U.S. According to NBC News, as of Wednesday morning, New York had 34,263 reported deaths.

However, Cuomo has refused to take responsibility for the high death numbers.

“The fact that this governor refuses to accept responsibility for his actions makes our grief and anger far worse,” Dean wrote recently at USA Today. “I know I speak for many when I say we need a non-partisan investigation on both the state and federal level so that this never happens again.”

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Dean blamed news outlets for failing to hold the Democrat governor accountable, too.

“The fact that [Cuomo] is going on every single program and barely gets asked the question about the nursing homes makes our grief worse,” she continued. “I am not here because of where I work or who I voted for. I am here to support all of these wonderful people that are now part of my family because we need answers as to what happened and why it happened.”

Here’s more from The Federalist:

On March 25, Cuomo mandated that hospitals discharge elderly patients with COVID-19 back to nursing homes, like the ones where Dean’s in-laws were staying. The order extended for more than a month, leading to the infection of thousands of vulnerable people in close quarters with contagious co-residents.

While New York’s nursing home death count policy is under scrutiny for potentially underestimating the number of actual infections and deaths, at least 6,660 people have died since the beginning of the pandemic in New York nursing homes and assisted living facilities.

Dean said Cuomo’s order should be a huge story, but few are reporting about it.

“Twenty percent of our lost loved ones are from nursing homes. And, it’s because Governor Cuomo, and several other governors, by the way, in different states, forced COVID-recovering patients into nursing homes,” she said.

Four other Democrat governors also ordered nursing homes to take coronavirus patients: New Jersey, California, Pennsylvania and Michigan. These five states have some of the highest nursing home death numbers, according to data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

In early June, AARP reported more than 43,000 nursing home residents and staff died from the virus, representing more than one third of all known deaths in the U.S. at the time.

“While dire, this figure is an undercount, experts warn, because not all states are publicly reporting data yet,” according to AARP. “In many states, more than half of coronavirus deaths are connected to long-term care facilities.”

Dean has been working hard to raise awareness and urge lawmakers to investigate Cuomo’s actions. Earlier this week, she participated in a protest with other grieving families in Brooklyn.

“[We] want an apology and answers from @NYGovCuomo about his tragic nursing home order. We also want an independent bipartisan investigation with subpoena power. We’re not going away,” she wrote on Twitter Tuesday, sharing a video of the protest.

Like so many others, Dean said she wants to know why the governor put vulnerable nursing home patients at risk, why he did not use the other makeshift hospitals for COVID-19 patients instead and why the state still has not released the total number of nursing-home deaths linked to the virus.

“This is not political. It’s about accountability @NYGovCuomo,” she wrote on Twitter. “We won’t stop.”

Abortion Activists Destroy Cross Display That Memorializes Babies Killed in Abortions

Wed, 21 Oct 2020 17:03:16 GMT

Vandals destroyed a pro-life cross display this week at an Arkansas church, the latest in a growing string of vandalism and other violence against pro-lifers.

According to the Magnolia Reporter, Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church in Magnolia set up 150 white crosses on its lawn earlier this month to raise awareness about the victims of abortion. The crosses represent the number of unborn babies who are aborted every hour in the U.S.

On Monday night or early Tuesday morning, however, someone vandalized the display, knocking over many of the crosses and a banner, the report states.

Volunteers with the Knights of Columbus fixed the display Tuesday afternoon, according to the report.

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Violence by pro-abortion activists has become increasingly common. LifeNews.com recorded more than 100 reports of assault, vandalism, harassment and other incidents in 2019. Our news outlet began tracking these reports after pro-life organizations expressed alarm about an uptick in violence in recent years.

Reports this year include:

Washington, D.C. – Video: Pro-Life Student Group Reports Multiple Assaults by Abortion Activists at Women’s March Protest (Students for Life)

New Mexico – Video: University of New Mexico Staff Erase Pro-Life Student Chalk Display (Students for Life)

Minnesota – Pro-life Students and Teachers Harassed in Three Separate Events in October (Students for Life)

Texas – WATCH: Abortion Activists Caught Destroying Pro-Life Display That Says “Unborn Lives Matter”

Louisiana – Vandals Steal Pro-Life Signs in Five Louisiana Cities (Louisiana Right to Life)

Washington, D.C. – Abortion Activist Punches Pro-Life Woman Holding Sign Supporting Amy Coney Barrett

Mexico – Abortion Activists Throw Molotov Cocktails at Police, Smashed Windows During Mexico City Protest (Reuters/AFP)

Canada – Pro-Life Sign Splattered with Paint, Vandalized Twice in British Columbia (Vernon Morning Star)

New York – Church Memorial for Aborted Babies Knocked Over (Catholic News Agency)

Colorado – Pro-Life Billboard Vandalized Twice in One Week (Golden Transcript/Colorado Community Media)

California – Leftist Protester Arrested and Charged With Firebombing Republican Women’s Group Office

Oregon – Antifa Activists Assault Pro-Lifer Who Painted “Baby Lives Matter” in Front of Abortion Clinic

Tennessee – BLM Activists Vandalize Church’s Sign Saying “Unborn Lives Matter”

New York – Andrew Cuomo Threatens President Trump With Harm if He Visits New York: “He’ll Need Bodyguards”

Washington, D.C. – Pro-life Leader, Senator Harassed by Mob after Leaving White House (videos by Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life of America, and U.S. Sen. Rand Paul)

Delaware – Delaware Man Charged with Pulling Gun on Pro-Lifers Outside Planned Parenthood (Associated Press)

England – Pro-life MP Receives Death Threat after Voting against Pro-Abortion Bill (The Christian Institute)

Florida – Man Sentenced for Death Threats against Pro-Life Christian Organization (Fox News)

Wisconsin – Black Trump Supporter Bernell Trammell Murdered in Front of His “Vote Trump” Signs

Tennessee – Planned Parenthood Activists Charged with Criminal Trespass, Coronavirus Violations as Lawmakers Debate Pro-Life Heartbeat Bill

Indiana – Abortion Activist Charged with Rioting, Disorderly Conduct (WPTA 21/Created Equal)

Ohio – Pro-Life Billboard Vandalized in Middletown (Journal-News)

Scotland – Pro-Life Lawmaker Receives Violent Death Threat After Voting Against Abortion

Canada – Pro-Life Billboard Smeared with Paint by Vandals near Kelowna (CastaNet)

Germany – Pregnancy Center Vandalized, Windows Smashed (Pregnancy Help News)

Oregon – Vandals Destroy “Pro-Trump. Pro-Life” Campaign Sign in Man’s Yard (Washington Times)

Texas – Pro-life Christian Threatened with Gun outside Fort Worth Abortion Facility (Fort Worth Star Telegram)

Texas – Abortion Worker Gives Pro-Lifer Bag of Vomit from Sick Woman During Coronavirus Outbreak (Operation Rescue)

California – Pro-Life Billboard Vandalized in San Francisco (Prolife Across America)

Washington state – Abortion Activists Punch Pro-Life Student in the Face, Egg Others Praying Outside Planned Parenthood

Washington state – Abortion Activists Masturbate, Throw Glass and Yell “Hail Satan” at Students Praying Outside Abortion Clinic

Mexico – Pro-Abortion Feminists Smash Windows, Try To Break into Church Where Children Are Worshiping

Washington, D.C. – Video: Abortion Activist Threatens to Pepperspray Pro-Life Advocates at Georgetown (TFP Student Action)

Mexico – Radical Feminists Smash Car Windows, Set Buildings on Fire, Injure 65 People During Pro-Abortion Protest

Washington, D.C. – Chuck Schumer Threatens Gorsuch and Kavanaugh if They Uphold Pro-Life Law: “You Will Pay the Price”

Washington state – Video: Students Vandalize Pro-Life Chalk Display at Western Washington University (Students for Life)

California – Hundreds of Pro-Life Fliers Stolen at Cal-Poly ahead of Pro-Life Speaker’s Talk (Students for Life)

Ohio – Video: Mom Threatens to Shoot Pro-Life Advocate on Sidewalk (Created Equal)

New Hampshire – Man Arrested after Allegedly Assaulting 15-Year-Old Trump Supporter (Townhall)

California – Bernie Sanders Supporter Allegedly Vandalizes, Tries to Set Fire to GOP Office (KRCR News)

Florida – Man Arrested After Driving Van Into Table Full of Trump Supporters

Germany – Radical Pro-Abortion Feminists Vandalize Churches, Set Fire to Vehicle

Florida – Abortion Advocates Destroy Display of 1,000 Flags to Mourn Babies Killed in Abortions

Indiana – Pro-Life Ads Vandalized in South Bend, Second Time in 3 Months (Pregnancy Help News)

Washington, D.C. – Video: Student Swipes Pro-Life Sign from Daily Caller Reporter’s Hands

Washington, D.C. – Abortion Activist Threatens to Slit Pro-Life Student’s Throat at March for Life (Students for Life)

Guam – ‘Protect Unborn Babies’ Display Vandalized at Catholic Church (KUAM News)

Mississippi – Cross Display Vandalized, Crosses for Unborn Smashed into Pieces

Germany – Radical Feminists Set Pro-Life Columnist’s Vehicle on Fire

Netherlands Approves New Policy Allowing Doctors to Euthanize Children

Wed, 21 Oct 2020 16:19:12 GMT

Once a society accepts the noxious notion that killing is an acceptable answer to human suffering, the definition of “suffering” never stops expanding.

The history of euthanasia in the Netherlands proves that maxim. The Dutch have allowed doctors to kill sick patients since the ’70s, taking an approach of quasi-decriminalization. Euthanasia was formally legalized in 2002. Over the decades, Dutch doctors “progressed” from euthanizing the terminally ill who ask for it, to the chronically ill who ask for it, to people with disabilities who ask for it, to the mentally ill who ask for it, and even to people with dementia who are unable to ask for it (as long as they left written instructions requesting it). The Dutch have also conjoined euthanasia with organ donation, creating a utilitarian impetus for lethal injection for both despairing patients and society. There have even been joint euthanasia killings of elderly couples who don’t want to experience the grief of widowhood.

Now the country is getting ready to allow little children to be euthanized. When euthanasia was first legalized, 16 was the age limit. Later, it was lowered to 12. Now, the government is proposing legislation that will allow pediatric euthanasia starting at age 1. From the NL Times story:

For the children referenced in the new policy, doctors are only allowed to give palliative care, like sedation, or withhold nutrition over an extended period of time until the patient dies. Doctors describe this as “a gray area” between normal palliative care and active life termination, he said, and they have been calling out for more regulation. . . . [Health Minister Hugo] De Jonge said his proposal will protect the interests of children, and will afford more transparency to the “gray area.”

Four points bear making here. First, the story notes that young children can already be killed via slow-motion euthanasia, known in bioethics parlance as “terminal sedation.” Unlike legitimate pain control, terminal sedation aims to cause death by keeping the patient in an artificial coma and withholding all sustenance until the patient dies of dehydration (thirst) in about two weeks. This is not the same procedure as “palliative sedation,” an ethical pain-controlling technique that puts the patient into lesser or deeper levels of sedation as the patient requires. The purpose of palliative sedation is to maximize the patient’s comfort. In such cases, death comes naturally from the underlying condition—not from the sedation or withheld food or water.

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Second, given the steady expansion of euthanasia eligibility in the Netherlands over the years, there is no reason to believe that the “terminal diagnosis” restriction will be followed—much less stick—for long. Some mentally ill people who are killed would otherwise live a normal lifespan, but that fact has been used as a justification for killing because it means the patient could experience many years of suffering.

Third, doctors already euthanize terminally ill and seriously disabled babies—that is, they commit infanticide—thanks to a bureaucratic checklist known as the Groningen Protocol. If a three-week-old baby with, say, spina bifida can be killed in the Netherlands without legal repercussions, eventually it will be permissible to kill children who become seriously disabled (particularly if the disability is cognitive).

Finally, the Dutch frequently justify expanding euthanasia eligibility by claiming they are merely coloring in “gray areas” to permit greater certainty and transparency. Yet these redefinitions of the law only go in one direction—increasing the number of people eligible for lethal injection. Besides, transparency does not transform an act that is immoral into somehow being moral. It just makes the entire society complicit.

The Netherlands won’t be the first country to permit child euthanasia. Belgium removed all age restrictions a few years ago. We know, based on government reports, that children as young as nine have been killed by doctors. One assumes their parents gave the go-ahead. But children are not so many pets to be put down when the owners think the time has come.

Pediatric euthanasia may soon come to this side of the Atlantic. Canada permits lethal injection euthanasia for adults—known as “medical assistance in dying” (MAID). As the country is preparing to expand its eligibility criteria, some hope that will include children—perhaps without parental consent. An article published last year in the Journal of Medical Ethics supported pediatric euthanasia. It was written by doctors who practice at a Toronto children’s hospital. Since Canadian children considered sufficiently mature may legally refuse life-extending care without parental consent, the doctors wrote, they should also be allowed to request a lethal injection. From “Medical Assistance in Dying at a Paediatric Hospital”:

If . . . a capable [legally underage] patient explicitly indicates that they do not want their family members involved in their decision-making, although healthcare providers may encourage the patient to reconsider and involve their family, ultimately the wishes of capable patients with respect to confidentiality must be respected. If we regard MAID as practically and ethically equivalent to other medical decisions that result in the end of life, then confidentiality regarding MAID should be managed in this same way.

Can you imagine visiting your sick child, only to learn that hospital doctors killed her without your knowledge or consent? The rage and agony would be unimaginable.

So what is the bottom line? Once a society embraces killing as an acceptable answer to human suffering and redefines assisted suicide as a “medical treatment,” the culture’s entire mindset shifts. Helping suffering people live ceases to be the overriding objective: These patients are rarely offered suicide prevention. Instead, death becomes the imperative, and not just for adults but eventually for sick and disabled children too—perhaps with organ donation thrown in as a plum to society.

It’s all so disheartening. As Canadian journalist Andrew Coyne once wrote about the growing popularity of euthanasia: “A society that believes in nothing can offer no argument even against death. A culture that has lost its faith in life cannot comprehend why it should be endured.” When the euthanasia death angel comes for children, who can say he is wrong?

LifeNews Note: Wesley J. Smith is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute. His latest book is Culture of Death: The Age of “Do Harm” Medicine. This originally appeared at First Things.

Four Newborn Babies Die Because Government Lockdowns Prevented Transfer for Surgery

Wed, 21 Oct 2020 15:27:45 GMT

Four Australian newborns have died after being denied lifesaving heart surgery and a transfer due to COVID-19 travel restrictions, according to 9News Australia.

It happened in the city Adelaide, where the the equipment needed to do lifesaving heart surgery doesn’t exist and the emergency transfers to Melbourne’s Royal Children’s Hospital was not possible due to the travel restrictions created by the pandemic, according to 9News in Australia.

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Adelaide is reportedly the only capital city in the country that doesn’t have its own “cardiac treatment or external oxygenation machines (ECMOs) available for babies and children,” per ABC Australia.

Authorities have requested urgent action following the babies deaths to purchase an ECMO for the Adelaide’s Women’s and Children’s Hospital

“How many more deaths of babies and young children will staff be forced to endure before the Minister for Health [Stephen Wade] cuts across this unnecessary procrastination?” Professor John Svigos shared of the move he said the hospital’s board needed to approve 18 months ago when it was presented.

“We spend $5 million a year transferring patients,” he added. “It would cost about $6 million to set it up and then $1 million a year to run it.”

“The death of any patient is extremely distressing to all of us and to all of our staff here at the network,” Women’s and Children’s Hospital chief executive Lindsey Gough shared.

“We do take it very seriously and I want to reassure all of the public that our services here are safe and of a high-quality standard,” she added.

The hospital’s medical director of the division of medicine, Gavin Wheaton, admitted if the hospital had an ECMO “in some cases, it may change the outcome.”

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Bill Maher Trashes Amy Coney Barrett’s Christian Faith: She’s a "F—— Nut”

Wed, 21 Oct 2020 15:05:35 GMT

Bill Maher claimed that Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett was a “f—in’ nut.” Now he’s produced the evidence: speaking in tongues.

Last Friday, the comedian not only referred to speaking in tongues as “babbling” on Real Time with Bill Maher, he also criticized the practice with profane words: “It’s not wrong to call out nuts when sh-t is nuts.” He concluded the show by proclaiming that Democrats “won’t make Barrett’s religion an issue – but they should, because being nuts is relevant.”

Deadline.com wrote about Maher’s gibes in an article that included a video segment of his mainly anti-Catholic rhetoric. Maher derided Barrett’s charismatic Catholic group, People of Praise, for speaking in tongues, complaining that “now it’s on the court!”

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Maher continued his attack on People of Praise by exaggerating their religious fervor and beliefs, saying: “she was raised in an extremist Catholic community called ‘People of Praise.’” The term “extremist” should be reserved for religions that condone destructive, fanatic behavior such as airline hijackings and suicide terrorism to promote their beliefs.

He was also certain that Barrett would criminalize abortion. He stated that she’s “been groomed since birth to overturn Roe vs. Wade. She’s like the Terminator, a robot programmed to fulfill one task, except she wasn’t sent from the future, she was sent from the past.”

Bill Maher is just another left-wing nut who hates faithful Catholics, particularly Amy Coney Barrett. Because she practices her faith, he’s scared that she’ll help overturn the court decisions he loves. Maher can’t stand orthodox Catholicism, so he spews out mindless rubbish to discredit it. That is the usual reaction of a leftist whenever they hear or see something they disagree with.

LifeNews Note: Sergie Daez is Staff Writer for MRC Culture at the Media Research Center where this originally appeared.

Hillary Clinton Releases Ironic Pro-Abortion Video: "Vote Like Our Lives Depend on It”

Wed, 21 Oct 2020 14:02:49 GMT

Lives do not depend on abortions. Abortions destroy lives.

But abortion activists are twisting words to claim that women need to abort their unborn babies to be healthy and free.

This week, a new pro-abortion campaign ad featuring Hillary Clinton mimicked language from the pro-life movement and claimed that Americans should “vote like our lives depend on it.”

Spectrum News reports the pro-abortion group Eleanor’s Legacy Action Fund released the ad this week in New York state.

Clinton, a pro-abortion Democrat who lost to President Donald Trump in 2016, did not mention abortion in the ad.

“No matter what issue you care about, it’s on the ballot,” Clinton said in the video. “We should be voting like our lives and our rights depend on it, because you know what? They do. Make a plan to vote all the way up and all the way down the ballot.”

While Clinton’s message was general and vague, the goals of Eleanor’s Legacy Action Fund are clear. Its mission is to “recruit, train and fund pro-choice Democratic self-identifying womxn” running for state and local offices in New York, according to its website.

Brette McSweeney, who runs the pro-abortion group, said they hope the ad will increase voter turnout in New York, according to the report.

“When we all vote, we all win. It’s that simple,” she said. “This is the most consequential election of a lifetime. … The Action Fund is working to ensure that every New York voter has the complete and accurate information to know that their vote matters and that they have many options on where, how, and when to vote this year.”

The problem is that to McSweeney and other abortion activists, “we” does not include unique, living human beings inside their mothers’ wombs. Pro-abortion groups advocate for the destruction of unborn babies’ lives in abortions, and the Democratic Party supports their agenda.

Elections are important because lives are at stake. Since 1973 when the U.S. Supreme Court forced states to legalize abortion on demand, 62 million unborn babies have been aborted. Today, about 800,000 unborn babies are aborted every year in the U.S.

The Democratic Party has adopted an increasingly radical stance on abortion. In 2016 and again in 2020, the DNC approved a platform that supports abortions without restriction and taxpayer funding of abortions.

Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden supports those same anti-life goals. He recently said he believes in a “woman’s constitutional right to choice under any circumstances.” During the coronavirus shutdowns, he even called elective abortions an “essential medical service.”

In contrast, the Republican Party supports protections for unborn babies. Its platform “affirm[s] that the unborn child has a fundamental right to life which cannot be infringed.”

President Donald Trump developed a strong pro-life record during his first term. Among other things, he took multiple actions to end taxpayer funding to the nation’s largest abortion chain, Planned Parenthood, and to stop taxpayer funding of scientific research that uses aborted baby body parts.

Liberals Call Christian Actor Chris Pratt a "White Supremacist” Because He Didn’t ...

Wed, 21 Oct 2020 13:13:43 GMT

Every other day, we’re bombarded with news about a celebrity lecturing us to vote out Donald Trump. At this point, it’s practically a relief to see an actor or singer not ordering us to vote for Biden come November. Unfortunately, as Chris Pratt proves, that’s all you need to be canceled nowadays. Or worse, remaining quiet gets you labeled as a MAGA supporter.

On October 18, the Biden campaign announced an online fundraiser titled “Voters Assemble!” featuring the directors and cast of the comic-book movie Avengers: Endgame. The press release read:

With the fate of our democracy at stake, Kamala Harris has called on America’s favorite superheroes to host what could be the most ambitious crossover event in grassroots fundraiser history. Hosted by the Russo Brothers, the event will feature Don Cheadle, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Paul Rudd, Mark Ruffalo, and Zoe Saldana — you don’t want to miss this one!

In light of this announcement, many Twitter users noticed names notably absent from the fundraiser, namely that of Chris Pratt. Even though other actors, including one of the film’s most notable stars Robert Downey Jr., were not included, this was apparently enough for people to label Pratt a “white supremacist” and a “MAGA dummy.”

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Keep in mind, Chris Pratt has never openly endorsed Biden or Trump, though records show he previously donated to President Barack Obama in 2012 and to Representative Tulsi Gabbard’s 2020 presidential run. Considering that and the fact that his wife Katherine Schwarzenegger-Pratt has come out in clear support for Biden, it’s a huge leap to suggest he’s a full-blown Trump supporter. The Twitter harpies might as well punish him for not clapping loud enough at rallies.

Jezebel writer Joan Summers set out to read the tea leaves on Pratt’s political leanings and her findings on the Republican side of the ledger are hilarious. One 2012 tweet she found “emphasizes Pratt’s political flexibility with ‘EITHER WAY,’ coupled with the extremely Republican energy of ‘respect’ and ‘allegiance.’” Later, she wrote, “There is a variety of data points that read Republican, like his insistence that both parties are equally just, his emphasis on unity, and his deluded belief that blue-collar white men haven’t had their moment in the Hollywood sun.” However, ultimately, she decided Pratt’s political pronouncements were too vague to come to a conclusion either way, which she found “much more frightening,” presumably in same the vein as how it’s not enough to not be racist, you must be obnoxiously anti-racist.

Of course, this isn’t the first time Chris Pratt has come under fire from leftists. Over the past few years, the actor has been slammed for wearing a Gadsden flag T-shirt as well as attending a church which has been labelled an “organization that hates a certain group of people [LGBTQ].” Most recently, he even mocked the celebrity endorsed PSAs via an Instagram post telling people to vote…for his movie Onward at the People’s Choice Awards.

In other words, he appears to behave like a normal person keeping his opinions to himself, putting faith in God, and having a good laugh now and then. And we all know how much the left hates that.

I don’t know who Chris Pratt will be voting for come November 3, and, for what it’s worth, I hope it stays that way.

LifeNews Note: Lindsay Kornick writes for Newsbusters, where this originally appeared.

Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers Helped Almost 2 Million Women With Abortion Alternatives

Wed, 21 Oct 2020 09:36:30 GMT

The Charlotte Lozier Institute (CLI), the research arm of Susan B. Anthony List (SBA List), released the findings of a robust study of approximately 2,700 U.S. pregnancy centers (affiliated with national networks and/or smaller parent organizations) to calculate their extraordinary medical, education, support, and material service contributions in 2019.

The new report, “Pregnancy Centers Stand the Test of Time,” the second in “A Legacy of Life and Love” report series, is based on national survey data provided by major pregnancy center networks (Care Net, Heartbeat International, and the National Institute of Family and Life Advocates) and a host of smaller networks. Prepared by CLI Associate Scholars Moira Gaul, Mai Bean, and Jeanneane Maxon, the report features an historical overview of early medical care established in pregnancy centers 35 years ago, emerging areas including outreach to victims of human trafficking and abortion pill reversal, high standards of care as a centerpiece of services, continued care at maternity homes, estimated total value of services, physician spotlights, and powerful stories of individuals and families the centers have helped.

Key findings in the new report include:

2,700 pro-life pregnancy centers nationwide served almost two million people in 2019, at an estimated value of nearly $270 million.
These are some of the vital services typically provided at virtually no charge:
- Almost 732,000 pregnancy tests
- More than 486,000 free ultrasounds
- 160,200 STI/STD tests
- More than 291,000 clients attended parenting and prenatal education programs
- More than 21,000 clients received after-abortion support
- More than 881,000 students attended sexual risk avoidance education presentations
- Nearly 1.3 million packs of diapers
- More than two million baby outfits
Personnel facts:
- 68,832 workers serve pregnancy centers, including nearly 3,800 licensed medical staff (25% of paid staff)
- Eight in 10 (53,855) of these workers are volunteers, including more than 6,400 licensed medical volunteers (12% of total volunteers)
- Over 10,000 licensed medical workers provide care, as staff and volunteers
Percentage of centers offering the following services:
- Material items – 94%
- Parenting/prenatal education – 86%
- Ultrasound – 79%
- After-abortion recovery – 72%

In addition, a growing percentage of centers offer sexual risk avoidance presentations to youth (36%), STI/STD testing (30%), STI/STD treatment (21%), childbirth classes (27%), and breastfeeding consultations (19%).

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CLI’s prior research reveals that an overwhelming majority of Americans, regardless of whether they self-identify as “pro-life” or “pro-choice,” consider pregnancy centers a valuable community resource. Post-visit surveys indicate centers have extraordinarily high rates of client satisfaction.

“Pregnancy centers exist to serve and support mothers in the courageous decision to give their children life, even under the most difficult circumstances,” said Chuck Donovan, president of the Charlotte Lozier Institute, the research arm of Susan B. Anthony List. “This report calculates the impact of their mission of love in concrete terms. Thousands of centers around the country provide a multitude of free services for millions of women, as well as tens of thousands of men, saving communities millions in tax dollars annually. Eight in 10 people involved at pregnancy centers are volunteers, an extraordinary example of igniting points of light in the darkness. Thirty-five years have now passed since the introduction of life-revealing and life-changing ultrasounds into pregnancy centers, and their medicalization continues to grow and thrive. All Americans benefit from these resources in communities everywhere across our national landscape.”

She Had an Abortion But Learned She’s Still Pregnant. Now She’s Choosing Life for Her Baby

Tue, 20 Oct 2020 23:31:44 GMT

Rosa* had a dream. In her dream she saw Jesus and He told her, “You have two months.”

The 35-year-old Bogotá, Colombia, resident was shocked by her dream. Rosa pondered it over and over, wondering what it could mean.

What was as strange to her as the dream was that Rosa noticed she had continued pregnancy symptoms – strange, because she had gone to one of the abortion facilities in her neighborhood and had an abortion.

The week after Rosa’s abortion, the local 40 Days for Life group had begun its vigils in her neighborhood of Teusaquillo, which has more than 30 abortion centers. The group prays for the 40-day pro-life vigil in front of two of the largest abortion centers.

Since she was still having pregnancy symptoms, Rosa returned to the abortion clinic. Personnel there examined her and determined she was still pregnant. Understanding that her baby was still alive, Rosa was shaken by the staff’s request to perform a second abortion.

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She felt so much confusion and fear. The abortion staff’s pressing Rosa to have another abortion procedure only added to her anxiety. They certainly were not answering her many questions of how she could still be carrying a baby after undergoing an abortion.

Once more they pressed and Rosa said, “No! Let me go for a walk to think about this.”

It was then she encountered a volunteer from 40 Days for Life. A conversation was begun, and the volunteer asked, “What do you need? Are you okay?”

40 Days for Life is an internationally coordinated 40-day campaign that aims to end abortion locally through prayer and fasting, community outreach, and a peaceful all-day vigil in front of abortion businesses.

Rosa started crying. She told him about her situation. The abortion, the dream, the baby who was still in her womb, and all her confusion came spilling out.

The conversation continued for two hours. They prayed together. Rosa found clarity in that moment. All it took was someone to listen as she put the pieces together.

Truly the Lord had given Rosa a miracle. She would choose life for her child. In fact, Rosa joined with the 40 Days for Life effort and to this day is still praying with the group.

The next day Rosa went to a local pregnancy help center, where it was confirmed by sonogram that she was carrying a healthy baby.

The pregnancy help center immediately began to see to Rosa’s various needs with its services for counseling, getting her a job, food and other material aid.

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She just entered her second trimester.

Pamela Delgado, the interim Latin American Affairs Coordinator for 40 days for Life, confirmed Rosa’s testimony.

“It was a whole miracle!” stated Delgado.

LifeNews Note: Kim Hayes is a writer for Pregnancy Help News. She has been a teacher, author, speaker and facilitator for marriage and family issues and married for over 35 years to Jeff, with four grown children. Kim’s counseling experience included 21 years as a volunteer consultant and trainer at Pregnancy Decision Health Centers. She was the Athletic Director of Columbus Crusaders Youth Sports ministry for 15 years. Kim has written several books, including the latest release, Prodigal Rewind: The Grateful Son. This originally appeared at Pregnancy Help News. Rosa’s name has been changed to preserve her privacy.

There is No Reason for Pro-Life Christians to Vote for Pro-Abortion Joe Biden

Tue, 20 Oct 2020 22:34:39 GMT

I don’t know who Bonnie Kristian is but reading her piece, published in The Week on October 12, tells me some people whose opinions I have long respected are either being snookered or so dislike President Trump they’ve placed their critical thinking capacities in hibernation.

Can’t figure out whether her piece—“The Supreme Court deal is done”—is more cynical or circular. The gist of her piece is how the “Evangelical Left” (to whom abortion may or may not be particularly important but not a deal breaker) hopes to peel off enough of the White Evangelical vote to tip the election to pro-abortion Joe Biden.

It goes like this…..

*President Trump is insufficiently [fill in the blank] to warrant all-out support from Evangelicals. By implication, pro-abortion Joe Biden must be better at [fill in the blank]. Consequently, some Evangelicals will take the Blue pill and live in blissful ignorance that they helped elect a man who, along with his party, is not only off-the-charts pro-abortion but also rabidly hostile to first amendment protections.

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*Put another way, President Trump isn’t good enough to warrant their vote. Famed Christian broadcaster Dr. James Dobson answered that in the October letter he sent to his 800,000 supporters:

I have heard from dozens of friends and acquaintances in recent weeks who tell me they will base their decision solely on a candidate’s rhetoric, tone, style, or likeability. Does that describe your thinking process? …

With all respect, this election isn’t about you. It certainly isn’t about me. It is about our kids and grandkids. It is about those who are yet to come, if they are allowed to live. This vote has awesome implications for future generations and the nation we love. It is about our Constitution and the immutable, God-given rights it protects. It is about values, and truth, and greatness, and hope. That is why the notion of choosing a president based on frivolous personality characteristics is so unfortunate.

*Those who’ve found Kristian persuasive do make one unassailable point: not every Evangelical who voted for President Trump in 2016 did so with complete conviction. Guess what? That applies to every category of human beings voting for any candidate. Some we love with all our hearts and souls. Some we tolerate. Most are the middle.

But for pro-lifers and most Evangelicals (I happen to be both), they vote both offensively (because of how much they like a candidate and believe he or she will accomplish) and defensively (to ward off what the pro-abortion candidate would bring). That obviously was true with President Trump.

He made a series of promises which he has faithful kept. He has rightfully earned the mantle of the most pro-life president ever!

We also knew that a “President Hillary Clinton” would come after the defenders of unborn babies—you and me—with a vengeance. It was true in 2016, it is even truer in 2020.

*So Kristian simply says ignore all that. Concentrate, instead, on this. In effect, Evangelicals made a bargain with the devil four years ago. He came through (solid Supreme Court nominations) and to “save our souls,” Evangelicals ought to cut and run in 2020. Granted, her language isn’t quite that blatant, but you can’t miss the suggestion.

This is so stupid, she must really think very little of the intelligence of Evangelicals. To begin with, I would be surprised if 50% of the population, including his supporters, believes Mr. Biden will serve out his first term. Sen. Kamala Harris will be the power behind the throne—she and her allies in the Abortion Industry.

Moreover, while abortion is the preeminent issue for Evangelicals, religious freedom is paramount as well. They [we] can kiss that goodbye if Joe Biden becomes President. Dr. Dobson keenly understands the existential threat Biden and Harris pose to unborn babies and religious liberty.

*Finally (in another slap at the intelligence of Evangelicals), Kristian argues that if Trump wins another term and replaces the aging pro-abortion Justice Breyer on the Supreme Court, that is bad.

Pardon?

“The backlash would be intense,” she prophesizes . “Court-packing and/or a serious loss of legitimacy for the Supreme Court would become all but inevitable.” Two things.

First, there are different older justices who are not enamored with Roe v. Wade. They could retire. Guess who a President Biden would nominate?

Second, the same smears, the same charges of “court packing” are already on display in the confirmation battle over Judge Amy Coney Barrett.

We’ll revisit this topic more than once in the next two weeks. But please remember this parting thought.

From a story by Jon Ward, Senior Political Correspondent for Yahoo News:

Ralph Reed, a veteran Republican operative who has helped corral the evangelical vote for Republicans for the last 30 years, said he thinks white evangelical support for President Trump is likely to be higher in the 2020 election than it was four years ago.

“I think the 81 percent of the evangelical vote that Trump received four years ago is the floor,” Reed, president of the Faith and Freedom Coalition, said in an interview. “I don’t think it’s beyond the realm of possibility that he could end up in the mid-80s.”

Reed said that by Election Day his organization will have knocked on between 3.7 million and 4 million doors in a get-out-the-vote effort.

And he predicted that the efforts of his group, and others like it, combined with white evangelical enthusiasm for Trump, will produce votes from 5 million to 10 million white evangelicals who did not vote at all in 2016. Reed claimed that there were 31 million white evangelical votes for Trump four years ago.

Optimistic? Of course. But I would trust the judgment of a man who has fought the abortion war for decades far more than I would an anti-Trumper who wants the President defeated more than anything.

LifeNews.com Note: Dave Andrusko is the editor of National Right to Life News and an author and editor of several books on abortion topics. This post originally appeared in at National Right to Life News Today —- an online column on pro-life issues.

President Trump Signs Declaration Opposing Abortion, Supporting the "Preservation of Human ...

Tue, 20 Oct 2020 21:53:19 GMT

President Donald Trump’s administration continued to push back against global abortion advocacy this week with a declaration proclaiming that “the preservation of human life and the strengthening of family” are foundational to society.

The Independent reports United States leaders joined five other countries in signing the Geneva Consensus document Thursday.

The action sent a statement to the United Nations that the killing of unborn babies in abortions is not a “human right,” as the UN Declaration of Human Rights Claims, according to the report.

The Geneva Consensus states that countries should work to achieve “better health for women, the preservation of human life and the strengthening of family as the foundational unit of society.” The countries expressed their strong opposition to abortion and urged society to protect unborn babies’ right to life.

The other countries that signed the declaration were Brazil, Egypt, Hungary, Indonesia and Uganda, the report states.

This is not the first time the Trump administration has fought for unborn babies’ rights at the UN.

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In September, United States and Vatican representatives criticized the inclusion of language promoting “sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights,” including abortions, in a UN COVID-19 response resolution.

“My administration is advancing religious liberty, opportunity for women, the decriminalization of homosexuality, combating human trafficking, and protecting unborn children,” Trump told the UN General Assembly in September. “America will always be a leader in human rights.”

In August, U.S. Ambassador Andrew Bremberg also slammed the international agency for “perverting” human rights by advocating for the killing of unborn babies in abortions.

Bremberg criticized the UN for being “notably quiet” on the horrific reports of human rights abuses in China, including forced abortions through all nine months of pregnancy, infanticide and the placement of ethnic minorities in concentration camps.

Since 2017, Trump has defunded the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) of tens of millions of U.S. tax dollars because it pushes abortions on other countries and has worked with China for decades to implement its oppressive population control policies. Under the pro-abortion Obama administration, U.S. taxpayers gave more than $300 million to UNFPA.

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Andrew Cuomo: I Hold Trump Responsible for Every New York Coronavirus Death

Tue, 20 Oct 2020 21:11:50 GMT

Gov. Andrew Cuomo blames everyone but himself for the thousands of COVID-related fatalities in New York these past several months. A heartbreaking number of those deaths occurred in nursing homes. We’ve documented the nursing home tragedy time and again here at Townhall, and how Cuomo’s March 25 mandate likely played a significant factor in it. On that day, Cuomo ordered facilities to accept COVID patients if they had the resources to do so. For many family members who lost loved ones in New York elder care, it’s a no-brainer that Cuomo’s dangerous order killed.

But he and his administration deny it and have chosen to point fingers at President Trump, nursing home staffers or family members that caused the high rate of infections, not the mandate.

And now he’s come full circle in blaming President Trump.

“I hold Donald Trump responsible for every death in New York from COVID,” Cuomo said at his Tuesday press conference in Albany. “Because Trump lied. He lied. And in combination with his lies, he was incompetent. It was his lie that said this was nothing to worry about. Trump was patient zero in the United States.”

He later referred to Trump as “the super spreader that brought the virus to America.”

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Cuomo has also recently blamed Trump’s rhetoric for the negative economic impact on his state. For instance, while the country as a whole lost 6 percent of manufacturing jobs, New York City lost 19.5 percent. In the hotel and restaurant industry, the U.S. tallied a 22 percent job loss, compared to a blistering 49 percent in New York City.

If the president hadn’t been so focused on China and had enacted a European travel ban earlier, Cuomo argued, those numbers may not have been so high.

Gov. @andrewcuomo blames the term “China virus” for the restrictions he’s imposed on New York that have devastated the state’s economy pic.twitter.com/4iR2yBpaqk

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) October 19, 2020

Instead of providing real answers about the nursing home tragedy, Gov. Cuomo opted instead to write a book about his leadership during the pandemic. The ongoing pandemic.

The Cuomo administration often cites an internal New York Department of Health study that concluded the nursing home mandate had little impact on the death rate. Critics and grieving loved ones have been calling for an independent probe.

LifeNews Note: Cortney O’Brien is a Townhall web editor, where this was originally published.