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Low birth rate a problem? Making abortion illegal seems like a good idea to me. I’m skeptical that Korea (or any abortion nation) would actually pull it off, though.

Anna Choi

Unless Koreans have more kids, their nation could disappear. A dynamic gynaecologist has a plan to reverse the trend by applying the existing laws on abortion.

Korea has the second-lowest birth rate in the world – so low that the government has reversed years of pressure on couples to have just one or two children. It now desperately wants to raise the birth rate. But why not reduce the abortion rate, asks obstetrician and gynaecologist Anna Choi. Her lobby group, Gynob, has created quite a stir with its demand that abortion be criminalised and abortion doctors prosecuted. We interviewed Dr Choi via email. Read more…

Susan B. Anthony List reports that the pro-life Democrats who are holding up health care over abortions are making the politically astute judgment. The public does not want federal funding of abortions.

At least three-in-five voters in these eight congressional districts agreed that “Abortion and abortion funding have no place in healthcare legislation.” Additionally, more than 70% of voters agreed in four of the districts surveyed (Ohio-06, Ohio-16, Indiana-08, and Indiana-09).

· At least two-thirds of voters in each Congressional District opposed “using tax dollars to pay for abortions” and in all districts majorities “strongly opposed.” Furthermore, in three districts opposition reached 80% (Ohio-06, Ohio-16, and Indiana-08).

“In the name of women’s rights.” That always gets me. Apparently only children who are wanted get to have any rights of their own. The rest don’t count.

by Carolyn Moynihan

Spain may be floundering economically and its birth rate one of the lowest in Europe, but that has not stopped its government passing a law to eliminate more unplanned and imperfect babies before birth. Read more…

The California Human Rights Amendment will amend the California Constitution and define human rights beginning at conception, and it will ensure that a pre-born baby of any age has the same equal rights and protection under law as adults.

Print petitions and collect signatures to get this important measure in the November election! View the flier for more information.

This article in the New Oxford Review follows nicely on my posts about the CA Human Rights Amendment. After going on about the inconsistency of some people in the pro-life movement, (an argument I haven’t got time for, frankly), he makes this observation:

It could be called the Personhood Movement. It would have a very specific goal: legal recognition of the personhood of the human individual from fertilization onward, with accompanying absolute legal protection. Read more…

I appreciate the author’s attitude on how ridiculous this is. Since when is it okay to usurp parental authority over a ten-year-old and teach them the “pleasures of sex”? When was sex ever a good thing for any child? Please, let’s teach children NOT to have any self-control. Let’s tell them to sneak around their parents so they can “do it,” get STDs to share with others, get pregnant, and have more abortions all for the sake of sexual pleasure. Fantastic idea, Planned Parenthood. Way to help them become responsible, healthy, well-adjusted adults. And I’m sure all parents would love their kids to start having sex as soon as possible. Get real!

Idiots.

Marcia Segelstein – OneNewsNow Columnist -

The International Planned Parenthood Federation is the umbrella organization for 180 Planned Parenthood organizations around the world. It recently released a report called “Stand and Deliver: Sex, health and young people in the 21st century.” The term “young people” refers to anyone over the age of 10.

The IPPF report includes a list of “Young People’s Human Rights.” Among them are the following: Read more…

If they found this happening at this one abortuary, who’s to say it’s not happening elsewhere, possibly even worse? I wouldn’t be at all surprised.

Charlie Butts – OneNewsNow

State investigators have shut down a West Philadelphia abortion clinic for the second time in two days.

The investigation was launched after a woman died in November from an excessive amount of pain killers believed to have been administered by an unlicensed staff member at the Women’s Medical Society facility. Cheryl Sullinger of Operation Rescue tells OneNewsNow about the grim results.

“When they got into that abortion clinic, they found unsanitary and deplorable conditions, including dried blood on the floor,” she shares. “But more horrifically, they found dozens of aborted babies who had been frozen — and some of those babies [may go back as far as] 30 years.”

The state has suspended the license of the abortionist, Kermit Gosnell, declaring him to be “an immediate and clear danger to the public health and safety.” Sullinger is grateful for that.

Keep reading.

I am totally on-board with the CA Human Rights Amendment. I have been deeply influenced by the Rev Walter Hoye, African American pastor of Oakland, and tireless defender of the unborn. To me, in this essay, Rev Hoye sounds like William Lloyd Garrison, American abolitionist of the 19th century and editor of The Liberator. I did my radio show today on this topic, including this billboard campaign in GA. There are simply too many parallels between slavery and abortion to overlook.

Tax payers still funding abortions. But abortuaries are closing.

Charlie Butts – OneNewsNow -

The number of abortion clinics in America continues to drop, but a mega-abortuary still receives government funding.

Operation Rescue has been tracking the number of America’s abortion clinics through its Project Daniel 5:25. The organization has recorded that two-thirds of them have shut down over the years. Since last December, another five clinics have closed their doors, leaving the number of abortuaties totaling at 710. Read more…

This is cool that these states are working toward making abortion illegal and aim to create a real threat to Roe v. Wade. Let’s just hope and pray it works.

Charlie Butts – OneNewsNow -

Signatures are being submitted as Mississippi voters seek the opportunity to decide on a Personhood amendment, and Colorado residents may once again have the chance to determine when a person is legally a person.

The Mississippi petition drive needed a little over 89,000 valid signatures to put the issue on the ballot, and Les Riley, head of the Personhood Mississippi campaign, reports that results in that area have surpassed requirements. Read more…

Not long ago the Ruth Institute did a poll on the leading cause of death among African Americans. The correct answer, you got it: abortion, by far. Clearly, according to this FOX news article, Ruth is not the only one who has noticed.

ATLANTA — The message on dozens of billboards across the city is provocative: Black children are an “endangered species.”

The eyebrow-raising ads featuring a young black child are an effort by the anti-abortion movement to use race to rally support within the black community. The reaction from black leaders has been mixed, but the “Too Many Aborted” campaign, which so far is unique to only Georgia, is drawing support from other anti-abortion groups across the country. Read more…

My favorite lines come at the very bottom of this article: “Bravo, Dominican Republic, for showing the big, powerful, developed world how to govern with sanity and reason. And for reminding us what we can’t not know….but somehow forgot.”

Here’s more of the article by Sheila Liaugminas:

Imagine how we got to this point. In one generation, we’ve gone from abortion being unthinkable to the majority of civilized society, to the defense of human life being a controversial issue. I don’t know about you, but when I just let an idea sink in, the clarity and simplicity of its truth stands out. Read more…

Currently South Dakota law requires abortionists to tell women that they are killing their babies. Wow. Wouldn’t it be great if more states did that?

Charlie Butts – OneNewsNow -

The Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is being asked to rule on South Dakota’s informed consent law.

The Eighth Circuit ruled the first time that South Dakota had a right to require abortionists to tell women that they were actually killing a human being. But this time, the Eighth Circuit will be asked to consider a lower-court ruling that struck down the provisions that require abortionists to tell women they have a legal relationship with their unborn baby and that there is a risk of depression and suicide associated with abortion. Read more…

I knew things were bad in China thanks to its one-child policy, but this article points out horrible consequences that probably few people know about. And yet, sadly, it doesn’t look like China has learned enough to change its ways, still!

Constance Kong

The Government’s 2020 vision has been blind-sided by a think tank’s report on its population policy disaster.

To say that China’s one-child family policy has been a disaster is an understatement. A report released earlier this month by the nation’s top think tank – the Communist Government’s Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) – says that the policy has created a huge gender imbalance with significant implications for future social stability. Read more…

This is gross. Have I given the impression that I’m not fond of Planned Parenthood yet? The latest news was that they were sending birth control and condoms to Haiti! “Sorry you lost 200,000 of your people. Here’s a way to be sure you don’t have any more!” And now using fishy means to try to cut the numbers of poor Ecuadorians. We tax payers had better not be funding this garbage.

Charlie Butts – OneNewsNow -

Planned Parenthood Federation is using children to provide birth-control shots to other children in Ecuador.

The organization is training teenagers — “peer promoters,” they are called — to go into rural areas populated by indigenous people, make contact with other children (ranging in age from 11 to 19), and convince them to let them inoculate them with Depo-Provera, which is birth control. According to Global Health Magazine, the program “meets the needs of a particularly underserved and hard-to-reach group, with a new contraceptive method, in a new way.” Read more…

Ah, the greed. Although, I find it hard to believe that they turn people away for lack of funding. Don’t they charge people sufficiently to cover the expenses? One would certainly think, and yet, if they are turning people away, I’m glad to hear that. 

Charlie Butts – OneNewsNow -

California Planned Parenthood pays its top executives extremely well while also claiming to receive insufficient funding for its patients.

Planned Parenthood has told California legislators that the clinic has to turn away as many as 10,000 people per month because they do not have sufficient funding. Meanwhile, California Catholic Daily has revealed that the state Planned Parenthood CEO is paid nearly $295,000 annually while others receive a salary in the $200,000 range. Also noteworthy are the benefit packages enjoyed by these well-paid executives. Read more…

The American Spectator has a point by point reply to Ted Olson’s unpaid advertisement in last week’s Newsweek. Many of Jeffrey Lord’s arguments use the analogy with polygamy. Every argument made today for removing the gendered requirement for marriage can be used tomorrow to remove the “two persons” requirement for marriage.  His bottom line argument is one that we don’t hear often enough: the analogy with abortion, and the political convulsions Roe v Wade has caused. Read more…

This news is old, but I must say I think it’s a good idea.

Charlie Butts – OneNewsNow -

Volunteers for the Pro-Life Action League are Christmas caroling at abortion clinics this weekend.

It’s the seventh year for the event which will be conducted at abortion clinics in the Chicago area. Spokesman John Jansen shares why they do it. “Our purpose is just to go and bring hope and bring joy to places of darkness, places of death, places of despair,” he explains. Read more…

Way to go, Dr. Sang-duk Shim and the doctors who have joined you to fight abortion in Korea. Way to be courageous despite opposition on many fronts.

From Mercatornet.com

A Korean gynaecologist explains why he abandoned a lucrative procedure and is campaigning to reduce abortions.

South Korea has one of the highest rates of abortion in the world, even though abortion is technically illegal there except in a few rare circumstances. According to official government figures, there are 340,000 abortions each year, although one parliamentarian has estimated that there may be as many as 1.5 million. At the same time, Korea’s birth rate is the second-lowest in the world – 1.19 births per woman — and some Koreans fear that their very survival as a nation is in doubt.

That is the background for a courageous decision by a 50-year-old Seoul obstetrician and gynaecologist, Dr Sang-duk Shim, to stop doing abortions and to lobby the government for a dramatic reduction. He has even received death threats for his stand. MercatorNet conducted this email interview with him: Read more…

Martyn Drakard, Mercatornet.com

Ugandan attitudes towards homosexuals have a lot to do with their attitudes towards fertility.

A three-day international conference on family planning took place in the Ugandan capital of Kampala last month. More than 1,000 health workers from 59 countries applauded a US$12 million grant from the Americans for launching a family planning drive in Uganda, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania and Kenya, as well as Indonesia and Pakistan. Everyone was relieved that President Obama had rescinded George Bush’s Mexico City policy which had banned funding agencies which provided abortion services or counselling. Read more…