“On Wednesday afternoon, two days ago, the House voted to approve a bill that would pull about $450 million in federal funding from Planned Parenthood. The bill—passed by the Senate late in 2015—will now head to President Obama’s desk. This will mark the first time a bill defunding Planned Parenthood has made it to the president’s desk in more than 40 years. This is the eighth time Congress has voted to defund Planned Parenthood in the last year.”
“Wednesday’s vote reflected the deep partisan divide on these issues: All but three Republicans voted in favor of the bill, and all but one Democrat voted against it. Federal law already prohibits using Medicaid or other federal funds for almost all abortions, so this bill would prevent patients from using their Medicaid coverage at Planned Parenthood for other healthcare services—like cervical cancer screenings, tests for sexually transmitted diseases, or contraceptive services.”
“Obama has already vowed to veto any legislation that would defund Planned Parenthood, but congressional Republicans are encouraged by the symbolism of sending this bill to the White House. They’re also already planning a veto override vote for later in January. To successfully override a presidential veto, both the Senate and the House would need a two-thirds majority.” (The above in quotationed editorial, published by MotherJones.com on 7th January 2016—By Hannah Levintova
|The following Blog by Chris Briscoe.
Something has to be done to get the truth out there that what society calls a “fetus” is actually a person with feelings and dignity, and human rights. Look at this picture of a 12 week baby; you cannot deny it is a person, a fellow human being, yet, in all 50 States of the U.S., it is perfectly legal to kill! Since abortion became legal in 1974, in the court case, Roe v Wade, giving the so called “human-right” of a mother to chose to end their pregnancy, over 50 million human beings have felt the pain of having their lives taken from them. The United States marked 40 years of legalized abortion in all fifty states, for an abortion, at any time, for any reason throughout pregnancy on January 22nd, 2014, the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision. Since that time, when abortion was legalized, until now, in 2016, there have been in the U.S. alone, approximately 58,612,545 abortions that have destroyed the lives of unborn children! And worldwide abortions, that figure climbs to 1,400,964, 930! More than all the world wars and civil wars combined! (These figures courtesy of http://www.numberofabortions.com)
But what about their rights and dignity, and who hears their cries and feels their pain when their little bodies are burned by chemicals, or smashed, or vacuumed up by an incinerator, or even their brains, heart, or other organs are extracted for harvesting? They are most persecuted and ignored group in the U.S.A. Whether you are in the group who is denying that Planned Parenthood are harvesting babies organs, you cannot deny that since that 1974 Court ruling, now over 58 million human beings have had their lives extinguished in the U.S. alone.
We don’t know the circumstances surrounding each little life, neither do we know the stress that the mother and father were facing, when they felt compelled to abort their child, when they were probably not given proper counselling that there are agencies that are willing to support the unwanted child and to support the pregnancy, but one thing we do know: now is the time to begin the ending of this brutality; and also, to stop mothers who are using abortion as just another form of contraception, which is immorale! And to treat this problem as both a social and political problem, and urge politicians like President Obama to stop stripping these little fellows of their God-given rights when they give absolute subservience to the abortionists.
And we need to protect the little fellows who survive abortion procedures against any more violence – little fellows much older than this little fellow. But the scandal is President Obama striked down a law that would have made it illegal to leave one of these little fellows in an abortion dish unattended, or to deny them the same medical treatment, as any of us would receive, if they managed to survive an abortion procedure, or anyone would face prosecution if violence was exerted against them!
That law is called “The Born-alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.”
The Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, sponsored by Congressman Trent Franks would make failure to provide standard medical care to children born alive during an abortion a federal crime. It would also apply stronger penalties in cases where an overt act is taken to kill the abortion survivor.
But the Obama administration says President Barack Obama would veto the measure. The position statement explaining the opposition to the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act says the pro-life bill “would impose new legal requirements related to the provision of abortion services in certain circumstances, which would likely have a chilling effect, reducing access to care.” But I would ask the question, “Mr. Obama, what about the chilling effect that the baby feels when facing death and the pain of death? Why do you only support abortionists, absolutely, no matter if it results in the death of babies like this little fellow?”
As Congressman Chris Smith explains that, this has Obama on record once again opposing care for babies born alive who survive abortions. Obama clearly either believes that killing babies after they are born is a reasonable part of an abortion or he fears that abortion companies like Planned Parenthood would stop doing abortions before they would be willing to comply with a requirement to save the babies that survive them. The White House has issued a Statement of Administration Policy vowing to veto a new pro-life bill the House of Representatives has voted on, but which the President vetoed ,which would have held the Planned Parenthood abortion business criminally liable for harvesting body parts from aborted babies who are technically still alive.
“Late yesterday the President demonstrated that his subservience to Planned Parenthood is absolute and without question,” said Smith. “Blindly following the orders of Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion provider in the country, the President issued an extreme unequivocal statement that he would veto the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, a bill that simply says a child that survives an abortion must be given the same care as any other premature baby born at the same gestational age, and forbidding acts of lethal violence against such babies.”
The center for Medical Progress has released 10 videos catching and exposing Planned Parenthood officials selling aborted babies and their body parts. One of the most shocking videos caught the nation’s biggest abortion business harvesting the brain of an aborted baby who was still alive.
In an interview with CNSNews.com prior to the House’s passage of a reconciliation budget plan that includes defunding Planned Parenthood for one year while redirecting those taxpayer funds to healthcare centers that do not provide abortions, Smith said it is not “moral for Congress to permit federal funding of an organization that aborts” 327,653 babies in a year, according to the abortion business’ most recent annual report.
“I think both the most recent scandal underscores the cruelty of Planned Parenthood and their willingness to use different methods of dismemberment in order to get body parts, I mean this is very macabre in my opinion,” Smith said in reference to the recent videos exposing the organization’s apparent practice of selling the body parts of unborn babies.’
For forty-two years mothers and fathers have swallowed the lie that this is a “fetus”, a “pre-human” which, in the name of convenience and adults human rights, can be disposed of! Well, as you can see from the picture, this is a fully human person.
Please could you think about this issue more deeply and imagine if you would still support abortion if you were one of those babies of 55 + million human beings.
Please, also write and lobby Congress to support this bill and to write and sponsor another bill which would make it illigal to use abortion as a form of contraception. That would be a start to end this bloody carnage.
Finally, let’s think how we can reach the mothers and fathers who feel compelled to abort their child, those many parents who are afraid for the future who think they cannot afford to bring a child into the world – for let’s remember that this problem is not just a political problem, but is also a social problem, the biggest social problem society is facing!
BUT HERE’S THE GOOD NEWS
And let’s try to reach out and help those couples who feel desperate, even afraid and compelled to contact such organizations as Planned Parenthood. Let’s tell them that there are organizations like “Online For Line” (whose website can be reached as well as their counselors at Onlineforlife.com) that can help, if the parents contact them, which offer free counseling, and a free appointment with Professionals, where they can be shown an ultra-sound of their child. And if they chose to continue with their pregnancy, they can be given full support, even full help with contacting adoptive agencies, if they decide that they do not have the means to look after their child. But, of course all these kind of options are far better than the option of killing, which should not be an option, in a truly civilized nation.
And most importantly, after the life of the child has been saved, or rather, before it is ended, we need to tell people that the one person who can break that vicious cycle of fear is Jesus Christ, because he is the only religious leader who is God and man. He is Man enough to know what it’s like to feel excruciating pain and stress, but God enough to enter our hearts and dispel all fear and bring the wonderful peace and healing of God. Unless you receive Jesus Christ’s Spirit into your heart, you will not know this by experience. He invites everyone with the words, “Taste of God’s goodness and see that He is God.” Jesus Christ promised, as recorded by his disciple called John, in the Bible, John 14:27: “My peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be worried.” (this means the peace that God gives, enters our hearts and is a tangible peace which we can feel, and which ministers peace to us in the midst of the storms of life, and calms our fears. Please try reading the book of John for it is the only Gospel book written by Jesus’ disciples to a non-Jewish audience like you and me, then ask God, “If you are truly God, then show me the power of your love by entering my heart and opening my spiritual eyes, and showing me I need you more than anyone in my life, to give me peace in all directions.”)
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH 