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One of GFL’s readers recently raised a question about the Pro-Life view on the issue of the death penalty.

While the Pro-Life movement includes issues such as abortion, euthanasia, and embryonic stem cell research, it does not specifically address the death penalty.

In reality, the issues of abortion and the death penalty operate on completely different grounds. Abortion takes the life of an innocent human being under the belief that they are valueless and have no personhood. The death penalty punishes a criminal by taking the most valuable and important thing they have – their life.
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Just released this morning, here’s the latest installment of The Rosa Acuna Project, a series of undercover investigative videos from UCLA student Lila Rose and Live Action:

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When we answer calls coming into our parent organization, Pro-Life Action League, we say, “Pro-Life Action League,” yet we receive a surprising number of phone calls asking if we perform abortions. When this happens, we refer the caller to a pregnancy resource center, or spend some time talking about their decision and the dangers of abortion.

But yesterday, one of my co-workers got a call that alerted us to something beyond simply “surprising”: A woman in Minnesota told us that our phone number and address are listed on a mailing she had gotten for “The Home Abortion Kit” [pdf].

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Earlier this week, a news story broke about a high school in Washington state that helped a 15-year old girl get an abortion at Planned Parenthood without her parents’ knowledge:

Shockingly, at this point it appears that nothing the school did was illegal.

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Last week, authorities made a shocking discovery while investigating a West Philadelphia abortion clinic run by Kermit Gosnell where a woman died following an abortion in November 2009.

In Gosnell’s office, they found two dozen frozen fetuses.

On Sunday, Gosnell’s license was suspended, with the suspension order detailing “deplorable and unsanitary conditions” that made his practice “an immediate and clear danger to the public health and safety.”

Today, on the pro-choice blog RH Reality Check, Rachel Larris has a post on Gosnell and the woman who died at his facility in November (the woman is identified by the Philadelphia Inquirer as Karnamaya Mongar).

Who does Larris blame for the woman’s death?

Why, pro-lifers, of course.

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Just released this morning, here’s the seventh installment of The Mona Lisa Project, a series of undercover investigative videos from UCLA student Lila Rose and Live Action:

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Lila Rose shared some big pro-life news this week.

Lila, who just last month shared about her groundbreaking undercover investigations of Planned Parenthood at our TeenSpeak conference, has shone a light on the web of deceit that surrounds Planned Parenthood clinics across the country.

Now her work is getting the attention of authorities in Alabama, where Lila and her team at Live Action filmed one of their undercover videos.

Here’s what Lila had to say: (more…)

Last summer, Elizabeth Trisler of Ohio won the National Right to Life Oratory Contest at the group’s convention in Charlotte, NC.

After she won, her representative in the Ohio House, John Adams, made arrangements for Elizabeth to accept an honorary resolution in honor of her accomplishment. (These sorts of resolutions are often given at the beginning of Ohio House legislative sessions to winners of sports championships, academic contests, etc.)

Elizabeth was supposed to have been presented with her resolution on February 3. But a few days beforehand, Ohio Speaker of the House Armond Budish—who is pro-abortion choice—said he “had a problem with the subject matter”, and pulled the plug.

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In a development that reopens the whole controversy surrounding their deceptive arrival here, it has recently been disclosed that Planned Parenthood is planning an expansion at their Aurora site. They are seeking permission from the City of Aurora to boost their parking by a whopping 27 spaces, an increase of nearly 40%.

I'll go on and explain the entire situation—including the deception going on here—in a moment, but first (more…)

This morning as I was waiting to catch the train to get to work, I was approached by a guy named Robert Marshall, who is planning to run for the U.S. Senate seat now held by Roland Burris. He asked if I would sign a petition to put his name on the Democratic primary ballot.

So I asked him the first question I ask anyone who tells me he’s running for office:

Do you support a woman’s right to choose?

The first question I used to ask was: “Are you pro-life?” But I soon realized that this is the wrong question to ask, because (more…)

This two and a half minute video is one of the simplest and clearest explanations I’ve seen of why President Obama’s (and the entire “pro-choice” movement’s) vision for health care reform includes taxpayer funding for abortion—even if he never uses the word “abortion”:

In solidarity with our friends at the pro-life youth organizations Stand True, Students for Life of America, and Survivors, we join them in calling all students to take a stand against abortion in a special way this Tuesday, September 8.

On that day, President Barack Obama will address America’s returning students in a speech welcoming them back to the classroom.

This Tuesday, we’re asking pro-life students to wear plain T-shirts with “Abortion Is Not Health Care” written in large letters across the front to protest the President’s current support for nationalized health care that will include taxpayer funded abortions. Or, if you are not able to make your own shirt, simply wear a shirt that already has a pro-life message.

And, if you’re asked to fill out a survey during or after the talk, respectfully ask the President to take a stand against the killing of unborn children.

Finally, if you face opposition from your school, the attorneys at the Alliance Defense Fund are prepared to help — their phone number is 1-800-835-5233.

Just put out by Justice for All, this is one of the best pro-life videos I’ve seen in a while:

[HT: Jill Stanek]

There is an interesting article on LifeSiteNews this week about Belmont Abbey, a North Carolina Catholic college that’s been accused of sexual discrimination by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) because it refuses to provide insurance coverage for contraception for its employees.

In other words, a Catholic college is being accused of discrimination for applying the teachings of the Catholic Church.

Whatever happened to the separation of church and state?

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For years, pro-lifers have been talking about how dangerous the abortion industry is, due in no small part to the fact that it has fewer regulations governing it than legitimate areas of medical practice.

This lax oversight is what allows many abortionists to actually break the law — and although some do get caught, many don’t.

It’s also what allows abortionists like Leroy Carhart to set up shop in some really dingy places (something pro-choicers don’t like to be reminded of).

I recently looked up the regulations on abortion facilities in Illinois (the state I live in, and where our office is located). Here, many abortion facilities are governed under regulations for pregnancy termination specialty centers (PTSCs). PTSCs are one subset of ambulatory surgical treatment centers (ASTCs).

I’ve listed below some of the regulations for ASTCs generally that PTSCs (abortion clinics) do not have to follow: (more…)