November 2015 Supreme Court agrees to hear lawsuit challenging Texas’ pro-life law By Dave Andrusko

As widely, but not universally issue and lower courts have expected, the United States disagreed over the requirement Supreme Court agreed Friday that abortionists have admitting to take up a lawsuit brought by privileges at a nearby hospital a coalition of providers for situations of medical that challenges two provisions emergencies. HB2 also requires of H.B. 2, an omnibus 2013 that abortion clinics meet the Texas law. same building standards as However reluctant justices ambulatory surgical centers. may (or may not) have been It is noteworthy what to wade into the abortion was never challenged: the controversy, it made sense Pain-Capable Unborn Child for the High Court to hear Protection Act. Also not before Whole Woman’s Health v. Cole. Abortion is an important See “Court,” page 17 Frustrated with Congress? Elect a Pro-life President and more pro-life senators By Karen Cross, National Right to Life Political Director

According to a Gallup poll life legislation and it goes to released November 12, only the U.S. . Under most 11% of Americans approve of circumstances sixty votes are Congress – the lowest point this required for passage. We don’t year and one of the lowest ever. have 60 pro-life votes in the But pro-lifers are frustrated Senate. for a very different reason. Both The Pain-Capable Unborn houses of Congress have strong Child Protection Act (H.R. pro-life leadership, but their 36), which would protect from efforts have been stymied by abortion unborn children 20 pro-abortion President Barack weeks or older, easily passed Obama and an entrenched pro- the U.S. House, 242-184 abortion minority in the Senate. (238 Republicans and four Currently, the gridlock happens when the U.S. House See “Frustrated,” page 31 of Representatives passes pro- Editorials , PPFA, and Hillary Clinton What do abortionist Kermit Gosnell, , and Hillary Clinton have in common? Or, perhaps better put, what are the common threads that link a man convicted of three counts of 1st degree , the largest abortion provider in the known galaxy, and the pro-abortion frontrunner for the abortion-saturated Democratic Party’s presidential nomination? Some are obvious, others less so. Each judges human value on a sliding scale. Not just size and development but also the ability to protect oneself. Who can be more defenseless than the unborn child who depends not on the kindness of strangers, but his or her own parents? And what do Gosnell, PPFA, and Clinton tell those parents who might be wavering? You have only one life to live so extinguish that bothersome life inside you. Each--Gosnell, PPFA, and Clinton--is incapable of being embarrassed by behavior and language that in a less cruel world would have shocked normal people senseless. Gosnell, whose specialty was aborting huge babies, joked that one baby was so big he could “walk me to the bus stop.” In case you forgot, when police raided his home, they found it as flea-ridden and stench-filled as his Women’s Medical Society wondering, the added assurance, “Everything we provide is fresh.” abortion clinic--a place of unbearable smells where “You could In some respects, Clinton’s responses have been even worse. tell there was death somewhere.” What was Gosnell doing as When the nation was shocked by the release of the Center for police donned bio-hazard suits to investigate the basement Medical Progress videos, Clinton hedged : “I have seen pictures (besides calling himself a “nice guy” for providing a bottle of flea from them and obviously find them disturbing.” repellent)? Police crime scene investigator John Before you could say stalling-for-time, Clinton offered a full- Taggart said Gosnell sat at the piano and played Chopin. throated defense. “I defend, and I will continue to defend, Planned Various and sundry PPFA big-wigs were caught on undercover Parenthood, because services that Planned Parenthood provides are camera laughing about making enough money off of the baby parts broad, and necessary for millions of American women,” she said, of aborted babies to buy a Lamborghini. Another nonchalantly conflating for the gazillionth time family planning and abortion. told investigators posing as fetal tissue procurers, “We’ve just PPFA couldn’t be a billion dollar enterprise if it didn’t have been working with people who want particular tissues, like, you political muscle and politicians in their pockets. know, they want cardiac, or they want eyes, or they want neural. … Oh, gonads! Oh, my God, gonads.” And in case anyone might be See “Gosnell,” page 35 The importance of the 2016 elections Last month’s digital edition of National Right to Life News candidates (now whittled down to 14) competing, you would had a heavy emphasis on Planned Parenthood’s skullduggery. expect a disproportionate amount of attention to be pointed in As always, we will pay plenty of attention to the largest their direction. This is especially so because two non-politicians-- “provider” (what an odd choice of words) of abortion in this the Donald Trump and Dr. Ben Carson--are ahead in the polls and November edition, but if there is a major theme for this issue because pro-abortion Hillary Clinton is the odds-on favorite to be of the “pro-life newspaper of record” it is looking ahead to the the Democrats’ nominee. 2016 elections. But, ever and always, the tectonic plates are busy shifting Too early? No, as you can tell from the buzz about the Republican beneath the candidates’ feet. Whatever we think we know now, in debates and (to a much lesser degree) the Democratic debates, it’s a few months the reality will likely be vastly different. Let’s take not just political reporters whose juices are flowing. Clinton, for example. While it might try some/many people’s patience, the flip side is The former First Lady, senator from New York, and Secretary of that it signals that we are approaching the clubhouse turn on the State has impressive credentials, loads of money, and the backing eight bleak years of pro-abortion Barack Obama. While he will of the party and many of the big donors. On the surface, she faces always be remembered as the first African-American president, exceedingly weak competition, now down to former Maryland my guess is that, unlike other presidents, history will not be kind to him. See “Elections,” page 35 Naturally with a dozen and a half Republican presidential From the President Carol Tobias We must not allow the pro-life message to be silenced!

For example, for many years, men have Colored People. The NAACP sued and won been told that abortion is a “woman’s the first round in federal court. Fortunately, issue” about which they have no right to an appeal to a higher court was successful say anything. Senator Claire McCaskill in determining that Mr. Bomberger’s free (D-MO) elevated this demand for self- speech rights still exist. censorship with a recent video in which On the flip side of being told to shut up is she stated, "As one of just 20 women being told what you must say. Several cities currently in the Senate, it's important to me have tried to tell resource centers to encourage more women to run for office. what they can or cannot tell the women they But equally important is encouraging more seek to help. Fortunately, most of these men to sometimes just shut the hell up. It's laws have been overturned in the courts, The first amendment to the U.S. not that women don't value your thoughts, but these NARAL-inspired laws keep Constitution reads, “Congress shall make no it's just that we don't value all of them. getting passed. Just last month, the state of law respecting an establishment of religion, The world doesn't need your opinion on California took it to a new level. or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or everything. For example, what women do California passed a law to force pregnancy abridging the freedom of speech, or of the with their bodies. Hush." resource centers that offer medical services press; or the right of the people peaceably Responding to criticism on , she to give every client information about how to assemble, and to petition the Government wrote that the video was created as a joke. they may be eligible for free or low-cost for a redress of grievances.” But as several responding tweets stated, it family planning services, prenatal care, and So when Congress, under the guise of wouldn’t be so funny if a man had said the abortion from the state, along with a phone “campaign-finance reform,” tries to tell same thing to women. The defense that it number for where to get further information. individuals they don’t have the right to was a “joke” would sink like a lead balloon. Can you imagine a state government exercise their freedom of speech to oppose We know far too many men who wanted telling a Ford dealer that it has to tell candidates for office, we fight back. We to save their unborn children from abortion customers where they can buy a Honda? hope the courts will protect that right from but weren’t able to do so. Legally, men have Or forcing Taco Bell to tell customers it government encroachment. no right to protect their unborn children but only serves Pepsi products and that if they But what do you do when it isn’t Congress they should at least have the ability to speak want Coke, where they can find the closest trying to suppress free speech but other out about protecting those babies. This is McDonalds? individuals who just don’t like what you’re the United States of America, right? But this law is more serious than just saying? What is taking place on college campuses product competition. Pregnancy resource On November 12, Megyn Kelly of Fox News is another phase of the campaign to stifle centers have a moral objection to telling a interviewed both Alan Dershowitz (a pro- free expression. Pro-life groups have seen woman where she can go to kill her child. abortion liberal, lawyer, Harvard law their speech rights trampled, literally and This is a free speech issue and will be professor, and author) and Peggy Noonan figuratively. Flyers calling for the defunding argued in court on that basis, but for many (a pro-life conservative, author, and former of Planned Parenthood were torn down of the workers at these centers, it’s also an Ronald Reagan speechwriter). Both were at American University in Washington, infringement on their religious beliefs. expressing their concerns about how free DC. Students at the University of North Pregnancy help centers that do not offer speech is being restricted, or even shouted Carolina are able to write messages in chalk medical services are required to post, in down, because people don’t want their on sidewalks to share their opinions. But several clear and conspicuous places, “in feelings hurt. positive, life-affirming, messages left on no less than 48-point type,” a message that More than 20 years ago, Nat Hentoff, sidewalks by pro-life students were erased the facility “is not licensed as a medical author, columnist, and pro-life liberal wrote by other students who claimed the messages facility by the state of California and has no a book called, Free Speech for Me but would trigger violence. Pro-life displays are licensed medical provider” on hand. Not for Thee. That was a great prophetic often ripped apart or torn down. So who is A lawsuit has been filed against this summary of what seems to be happening acting violently? egregious edict and we certainly hope and in our country today. If your beliefs or Ryan Bomberger, an African-American pray for a victory. opinions are considered “offensive” to and founder of the pro-life Radiance We must be vigilant. We are the voice for someone, you’re supposed to be quiet, tone Foundation, got frustrated with the pro- voiceless, innocent unborn children and we it down, or just shut up. abortion position of the National Association cannot allow our beliefs and our opinions Pro-lifers are the victims of that thought for the Advancement of Colored People to be silenced. If we are not able to speak mentality --some would say Thought Police--far (NAACP). He began to refer to the group as for these little ones, the killing will continue too often. This takes many forms. the National Association for the Abortion of and, indeed, even increase. 4 November 2015 National Right to Life News www.NRLC.org Adoption: the hope for orphans around the world By Joleigh Little, Teens for Life and Region Coordinator, Wisconsin Right to Life

It is no small coincidence, in – a service by ignoring the are different than those they an HONOR it is to be entrusted my mind, that whoever created fact that adoption also means have known for nine months. with the life of another human? National Adoption Month brokenness – whether it’s a For children like both of my Whether that confidence is chose November to be that shattered relationship or a less- girls, adoption was precipitated placed in you by a birth family month, with its inherent focus than-stellar childhood that leads by abandonment. For Clara it or by the adoption hierarchy on blessings and thankfulness. a birth mom to contemplate happened at birth when she was in a foreign country makes no Because, you see, I’m that abortion as her only option, or left alone in a hospital NICU difference. Someone thought ridiculously sappy mama the heart-wrenching reality of at 29 weeks gestation, and for you were capable of raising a whose greatest blessings have a couple that cannot create and Annelise it happened at age two PERSON! come to her through adoption. In 2012, Bulgaria gave me My love for adoption, much a human. In 2016 China will like my love for my daughter, do the same. Mind. Blown! though, is not a gooey, blind (Because, you guys, I live with adoration that focuses only on me and I know I’m far from the warm fuzziness and the perfect!) photos of picture-perfect, doe- Adoption is also a gift for the eyed cherubs. I brought Clara children involved, although home when she was nearly three many may not feel like it when – after she spent her infancy they are ripped from the only and toddler years running an life they’ve known, plopped orphanage in Bulgaria. (Yes, into the arms of strangers who you read that right – the tiny, are often a weird color (from quick-witted and even quicker- their perspective,) and whisked tempered little pumpkin had a to a location that is completely staff of 12 doing her bidding unfamiliar to them, with new both morning and night.) sights, sounds, smells and Our first year home was… customs. tough. We were strangers If all of this seems brought together by the miracle contradictory, that’s because it that is adoption. She was a little is. Like every single other thing girl in need of a mom, and I was in life – marriage, jobs, family, a mom who needed a little girl. friendships… EVERYTHING, It’s the stuff of fairy tales, until adoption has its ups and downs. you factor in the daily reality of Adoption and attachment are blending two people who have hard for parents and children only just met into a family. who suddenly become family, Clara came with her issues – though they have no biological and none of them had to do with ties. Adoption and loss are hard her missing limbs and digits Joleigh and Clara Little for birth families who have to – those, in fact, are such non- say good-bye, for whatever issues that most days neither give birth to a child who shares and a half when she was left in reason. one of us even pays them a their DNA, both sides of the a train station. But you guys. Imagine second thought. If you asked adoption equation often have to All of that said, I get angry the alternative. Loneliness, her, she’d also say “Mommy wrestle with loss and grief. when people – be they fellow brokenness, despair, facing a came with her issues…” And let’s not forget the adoptive parents, pro-abortion future without an adult who has because I know I did. We all children who are at the very activists, or bitter adult your back – being trafficked, do, whether we want to admit heart of every adoption. If they adoptees– focus too much on left on the street to fend for it or not. were abandoned, for whatever the darker side of adoption. yourself or, even being brutally I say this because, so often, reason, their little bodies, hearts Because adoption, regardless killed before you are allowed to the hard parts of adoption get and brains know it, even if of what pain, grief or trauma draw your first breath. glossed over in our gigantic they’re too young to articulate makes it necessary, is a GIFT. Without adoption, our world love-fest, as pro-lifers, with it. Even babies lovingly carried It is a gift for a birth family to would be a far sight worse than the concept. (And don’t get and then placed into the arms of know that the child they created it is. If adoption didn’t exist, me wrong… NO ONE loves their new parents shortly after is being raised in a loving home. there would be literally no hope adoption more than this girl.) birth know that something has Adoption is a gift to the for orphans around the world, I don’t think we do anyone changed – that the voices and parents who receive a child – – most certainly not our cause bodies now surrounding them good grief, do you know what See “Adoption,” page 40 www.NRLC.org National Right to Life News November 2015 5 Adoption: A loving, life-saving, realistic alternative to abortion By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D., NRL Director of Education & Research

Editor’s note. November is Infant adoption has become aged 18-44 found 33.1% con- costs of $10,000 or more, at National Adoption Month. rarer since 1973. According to sidering abortion with 23.2% least half pay less than $5,000, We will continue to print ex- the U.S. Department of Health of those actually taking steps to with 29% paying nothing at all, amples of this life-affirmative and Human Services Adoption adopt a child. An adoption ac- according to the Chartbook. alternative all month. The fol- USA Chartbook, prior to 1973, tivist writing in 2008 said that While many of those paying lowing, we trust, is a helpful about 8.7% of never married there were more women seek- little or nothing to adopt are rel- overview. women who gave birth made ing to adopt unrelated children atives, this does not necessari- ly represent all those To get a good idea paying lower fees. of the broader pic- Twenty-two per- ture, to understand cent of those parents why pro-lifers feel adopting children adoption is such who are not related a loving realistic, did not pay anything life-saving alterna- either. tive to abortion, let’s About 80% of par- talk about some basic ents adopting chil- information and sta- dren after 1997 filed tistics about adoption for federal adoption in the U.S. tax credits that went Surveys and studies into place that year, on adoption aren’t as and about 13% of ad- frequent as research opted children had a in some fields. How- parent who reported ever a few govern- receiving some finan- ment statistics and cial assistance from a comprehensive their employer. national survey of With pre-planned adoptive parents in infant adoptions, typ- 2007 found out a ically adopting par- number of important ents cover necessary things. medical and legal According to fig- fees. ures from the 2007 Private agencies, National Survey of Children’s a plan for adoption. However than there were foster children some of them religious, can Health (NSCH), the 1.8 million that dramatically dropped to awaiting adoption (Katz, Wash- be helpful in facilitating adop- adopted children in the U.S. 1% in the 1990s. ington Post, 11/8/08). tions, guiding would be parents comprise about 2% of Ameri- While the HHS Chartbook A surprisingly high percent- through the process. They can ca’s child population. About a mentions the role of reproduc- age, 39%, of adoptions involve not only help with legal pa- quarter of these represent inter- tive technology such as in vitro children with special health perwork but assist in making national adoptions, with nearly fertilization giving childless needs. Race or ethnicity does the match and working out the equal amounts representing pri- couples the chance to con- not appear to be a significant transition. vate domestic adoptions (38%) ceive on their own, the abortion barrier either, with 40% of par- The 2007 NSCH survey or adoptions from foster care deaths of millions of babies ents adopting children of a dif- found that adopting parents (37%). who could have been available ferent race, ethnicity, or culture. were likely to be married, to be About a quarter are adopted for adoption also surely played People interested in adoption educated, to live in safe neigh- by relatives, and close to a third a role. may be intimidated by potential borhoods and to have health in- (32%) are adopted at birth or at There is great openness to costs, but this does not have to surance. The children in those least placed for adoption at one adoption in the American pub- be prohibitive. Though some month or less. lic. A 2002 survey of women adopting parents do indeed face See “Adoption,” page 29 6 November 2015 National Right to Life News www.NRLC.org A Mother’s death-defiant vow: “You’re going to do beautiful things with these beautiful hands” By Karen Cross, National Right to Life Political Director

Expecting their third son to and nurses whisked him away to open his eyes and “Look at existed as a sign of perfection be as healthy as his two older before I could even glimpse Mommy,” but he didn’t yet have in the midst of everything going brothers, David and Marie his body, let alone hold him. the strength to raise his eyelids. wrong. A death-defiant vow learned that their newborn Eager to see him and find out As I prayed, whispered, bloomed on my lips, “Someday, son, Reid, had a condition what was happening, I kept and sang, the vision of the I’ll teach you to play piano. I’ll called Myotubular Myopathy attempting to get out of the sweet hand in mine began to teach you how to make music. (MTM), a rare condition that recovery room bed, but due to compromises most of his the delivery trauma, my legs muscles and makes him unable crumpled under me every time. to breathe without ventilator Powerless and perplexed, I support. was forced to wait until David Despite being told Reid could secure a wheelchair to

Reid holding hands with his new younger brother, Paley, who had just come home from the hospital (five years ago). would “probably die within a transport me from the maternity year,” Marie said their goal was ward to the NICU, where I first “to help Reid be as healthy as saw my third son, encapsulated possible and live his life to the not by my own, loving arms fullest in his home, surrounded but by a hospital incubator. Reid's tender, beloved hands, both fragile and resilient, both tenuous and by the people who love him.” (If it is possible to be jealous tenacious in their grip upon life, could echo a song of flaming tongues, They were told “phrases like of an inanimate object, then I which declare "When I am weak, then I am very strong." ‘let nature take its course,’ and certainly was.) ‘we can put a DNR in his file The one meager satisfaction penetrate the sad, surreal daze You’re going to do beautiful before he goes home and then if of the ache to hold my child of my thoughts, like a wisp of things with these beautiful something happens…’” was accomplished by reaching clear light guiding me through hands.” Following are reflections by through a small window of a fog, then suddenly striking That these tender, beloved Reid’s mother after celebrating the isolette and grasping his me with their abnormal beauty hands, both fragile and her third son’s – thus the tiny hand, the only part of him and gracefulness. Motionless, resilient, both tenuous and nickname “Tertius,” which is that didn’t seem covered and he moved me. Breathing, he tenacious in their grip upon Latin for third – 8th birthday. invaded by alien tubes, IV lines, beguiled me. Helpless, he When “Tertius” was born as and wires. I vainly searched healed me. a floppy baby with respiratory for some kind of response from His long, slender fingers – See “Vow,” page 36 insufficiency, the neonatologist him, softly pleaded with him soft and silky as rose petals – www.NRLC.org National Right to Life News November 2015 7 The reality of human cloning By Paul Stark

In 2013, researchers at Oregon if successful, begins dividing as cells would be genetically fertility clinics). Cloning is the Health & Science University a new organism at the earliest matched to potential patients deliberate manufacturing of announced a major scientific (embryonic) developmental (whose genetic material human beings solely in order breakthrough. They had, for the stages. This new individual is could be used to create the to exploit and destroy them. It first time, successfully derived genetically (virtually) identical embryos). In 2007, however, is a total commodification of stem cells from cloned human to the person from whom the researchers found a way to human life. embryos. Today, the creation somatic cell was taken. It is a reprogram regular adult cells to Cloning also requires and destruction of cloned human clone. become virtually equivalent to harvesting large numbers of embryos takes place in several Theoretically, a cloned human embryonic stem cells. eggs from women. This process laboratories around the country. embryo could be implanted in a These induced pluripotent poses risks to women’s health Few people are aware of this and allowed to develop stem cells (iPSCs) are and can threaten their future research, the ethical problems into a fetus, infant, child, and genetically identical to the fertility. And the offer of prospective patients from payment for eggs can lead to whom they are derived. So the exploitation of low-income they have the same theoretical women. advantages as stem cells from cloned embryos—but without Cloning is dangerous the creation and destruction of embryonic human beings. Third, research cloning The advent of this ethical enables other morally alternative diminished the demand problematic activities. It lays for human cloning. Cloning the technical groundwork for research continued, though, cloning-to-produce-children, and the Oregon announcement which raises a host of ethical rejuvenated it. But there is no concerns. It could lead to fetal compelling medical rationale for farming—growing cloned human cloning. embryos to a later stage so it raises, or the disturbing so on. The Witherspoon report that their valuable organs can practices to which it could lead. calls this “cloning-to-produce- Cloning is wrong be harvested for research or The dangers are spelled out in children” (often dubbed transplantation. And cloning “The Threat of Human Cloning: “reproductive cloning”). Second, cloning for research technology may facilitate the Ethics, Recent Developments, Almost everyone opposes it, is unethical. The science of genetic engineering of children, and the Case for Action,” an and it is not yet practically embryology establishes that as it already has animals. important new report by the feasible. cloned embryos are living These are among the reasons Witherspoon Council on Ethics Alternatively, a cloned human human organisms; they are why the Witherspoon Council and the Integrity of Science. We embryo can be destroyed at the members of the species calls for a complete ban on ought to heed the warning. blastocyst stage (about five Homo sapiens at the earliest human cloning. MCCL helped days after creation) in order to developmental stages. Each of to pass such a ban in Minnesota What is cloning? derive stem cells for research us was once an embryo. And all in 2011, but it was vetoed by purposes. This is cloning- human beings—regardless of Gov. Mark Dayton. Cloning researchers employ for-biomedical-research age, size, appearance, location The threat is greater now than a technique called somatic cell (usually called “therapeutic (e.g., a petri dish) and method it was then. Human cloning nuclear transfer—the same cloning”). And, following the of creation—have intrinsic is unnecessary, unethical and process famously used to create breakthrough in 2013, it is value and deserve respect. They dangerous, and it ought to be Dolly the cloned sheep in 1996. happening right now. are not raw material to treat as stopped. It involves removing the nucleus a mere means to an end. They Editor’s note. The following from an egg and replacing Cloning is unnecessary should not be killed so that first ran in the September- it with the nucleus from a their parts can be used for the October 2015 issue of somatic cell (a regular body So what are the problems theoretical benefit of others. MCCL News. Paul Stark is cell, such as a skin cell), which with this research? First, it is Cloning is even worse than Communications Associate for provides a full complement of unnecessary. Scientists long ordinary embryo-destructive Minnesota Citizens Concerned 46 chromosomes. sought cloned human embryos research (which utilizes for Life (MCCL), National The egg is then stimulated and, because their pluripotent stem “leftover” embryos from Right to Life’s state affiliate. 8 November 2015 National Right to Life News www.NRLC.org Congresswoman Moved to Tears Recounting Stories of Students Who Were Coerced into Abortion By Lauretta Brown

(CNSNews.com) – At teaching on child development, to Planned Parenthood the day She cited these encounters a Capitol Hill briefing to because she had recently had a before.” with young girls in crisis announce the theme of March miscarriage. After complying The student was “about three pregnancy situations as her for Life 2016 “Pro-Life and with the girl’s request, Hartzler months along,” she said. reason for introducing a bill Pro-Woman Go Hand in learned the truth in a parent- “She had asked them, ‘Well Tuesday to recognize “National Hand,” Rep. Vicky Hartzler teacher conference later that what does it [the unborn baby] Pregnancy Center Week,” to (R-Mo.) cried as she related month. look like,’ and they had said recognize and raise awareness her experience as a teacher “Sherrie (name changed) to her, ‘Oh, don’t worry about for local crisis pregnancy discovering that one of her came in with her head down it. It’s just a blob of tissue,’” centers. students had been coerced into looking absolutely miserable Hartzler said. “Pregnancy Care Centers having an abortion. with her mother,” Hartzler said. The girl asked Hartzler for are a shining example of what “We looked at her grades and pictures of an unborn child three we should be doing more as talked about assignments.” months along, since Hartzler Americans—individuals and Hartzler recounted the mother taught child development at the communities working together saying, “‘Well I wanted to time. to protect and promote life,” thank you for giving Sherrie Hartzler gave the girl the Hartzler said at the bill’s another alternative assignment, information, “showed her the introduction. “These centers because you know when she different stages of development and the teams of dedicated told us she was pregnant, I told of a baby, and she looked at that people working tirelessly to her we are not having a child three-month-old unborn baby, assist women in need and save in this house, and then we’re and she said, ‘Mrs. Hartzler, unborn lives – they deserve our going to go down to the clinic, this isn’t a blob of tissue. This admiration and support. and we are going to take care of is a baby.’ “From medical help, that, and we did – whether you “She said, ‘Why would they guidance, housing and material like it or not.’” tell me that?’ Well, I didn’t have assistance, parenting lessons, Hartzler said the mother then an answer for that,” Hartzler emotional support, and Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R-Mo.) complained about her daughter recounted. “She said, ‘I don’t promotion of life over abortion, (AP Photo) “blubbering right now.” want to have this abortion,’ and roughly 2,500 pregnancy “I tell you it was all I could do her parent was encouraging her care and resource centers in Drawing on the pro-woman to restrain myself. I just wanted to do that, and fortunately, she America provide support and theme of the event, Hartzler to embrace the girl,” Hartzler had a neighbor that, that night care to millions of women each related some stories from her 11 said, crying as she recalled the took her to a maternity clinic and every year. It is an honor to years as a teacher in Missouri, experience. “It’s so important in the area, and she ended up dedicate a week to recognize which she said were “prime that we get to the kids and staying there, choosing life. their tireless efforts,” she examples of how the other side the parents with accurate “It is so important that we get added. is not really pro-woman even information as well.” knowledge out to people about though they claim to be.” Hartzler also told a story the truth about abortion and about Editor’s note. This appeared Hartzler recounted that she about one of her students, who baby development, and certainly, at cnsnews.com and is reprinted had a student who requested “shared with me that she was that’s one thing I’m working on,” with permission. not to attend a unit she was pregnant and that she had gone Hartzler emphasized. www.NRLC.org National Right to Life News November 2015 9 “I don’t think Planned Parenthood should get a red cent from the taxpayer” says new House Speaker Paul Ryan By Dave Andrusko If you had the chance to A first step was taken back in Under the bill, the amounts Pro-Choice America. watch Paul Ryan(R-Wi.) on October when the House passed denied to Planned Parenthood Naturally he was accused of even a couple of the Sunday the “Restoring Americans’ are reallocated to community being a warrior in the tiresome talk shows the weekend after he Healthcare Freedom health centers. “War on Women.” Ryan deftly became the newly elected pro- Reconciliation Act,” (H.R. When Mr. Ryan was sworn handled the bogus allegations life Speaker of the House (he 3762) which would block, in as the 54th speaker of the in his acceptance speech. was on five!), you could readily for one year, most federal House, he was the youngest “Our different faiths see why he is pro-life John payments to affiliates of the Speaker in 150 years. When he come together in the Boehner’s successor. Ryan is Planned Parenthood Federation was selected by Mitt Romney same moral creed. We smart, articulate, funny, quick of America (PPFA). to be his running mate in 2012, believe that in every on his feet, and aware that the As NRLC explained, the rest of the country had the life there is goodness; White House is still controlled H.R. 3762 is a special opportunity to see what pro- for every person, there by pro-abortion President is hope. Each one of us Barack Obama with Senate was made for a reason, Democrats more dedicated bearing the image and than ever to protecting Planned likeness of the Lord of Parenthood . Life. Asked about defunding “We have re- Planned Parenthood on “State sponsibilities, one to of the Union,” Ryan told CNN’s another. We do not each Dana Bush face the world alone. “I don’t think Planned And the greatest of all Parenthood should get responsibilities, is that a red cent from the of the strong to protect taxpayer. I’ve always the weak. The truest believed that, even measure of any society before these disgusting New Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, is how it treats those videos came out. But interviewed by CNN’s Dana Bush. who cannot defend or I believe we need care for themselves. to do our oversight. type of legislation called a lifers already knew about Paul “Each of these We’re just beginning “reconciliation bill.” This Ryan. great moral ideas is to start a committee means that it cannot be “Congressman Ryan has a essential to democratic to investigate Planned blocked in the Senate by the deep, abiding respect for all government, to the Parenthood. That’s filibuster, which has been the human life, including unborn rule of law, to life in important. So the main obstacle to previous children and their mothers, a humane and decent special committee on attempts to pass legislation to the disabled, and the elderly,” society. They are the Planned Parenthood, I defund Planned Parenthood. said National Right to Life moral creed of our think, should be in the Nevertheless, the bill faces President Carol Tobias. Ryan country, as powerful in driver’s seat overseeing formidable obstacles in the has compiled a 100% voting our time, as on the day this process.” Senate. record from National Right to of America’s founding. The bill would close the Life ever since he entered the They are self-evident (Ryan was referring to the largest pipeline for federal House in 1989. and unchanging, eleven undercover PPFA funding of Planned Parenthood, Our anti-life counterparts and sometimes, even videos released by the Center Medicaid, and apply as well to understood his track record presidents need for Medical Progress and the the Children’s Health Insurance just as well as we did. “Rep. reminding, that our creation of a special panel Program (CHIP) and the Title Paul Ryan’s extreme anti- rights come from under the jurisdiction of the V and Title XX block grant choice record shows just how nature and God, not House Energy and Commerce programs. These sources serious a threat Mitt Romney’s from government.” Committee to investigate account for roughly 89% of presidency would be for various allegations of misdeeds all federal funds that currently women,” said Nancy Keenan in See “Paul Ryan,” page 37 by Planned Parenthood.) flow to Planned Parenthood. 2012, then president of NARAL 10 November 2015 National Right to Life News www.NRLC.org Networks Skip Over Last SEVEN Planned Parenthood Videos By Katie Yoder

Editor’s note. This ran · Gosnell-Like Horror: airing Cecile Richards’ defense rallies held in late August – November 3. Abortion Worker of Planned Parenthood during except as a side note when CBS Describes Cutting a congressional hearing than tried to connect the event to It’s becoming a trend. Open Baby with showing the actual videos arson. The three broadcast networks ‘Beating Heart’ themselves. Citing information from MRC didn’t even hint at the latest From the beginning, the studies, both Sen. Mike Lee (R- Planned Parenthood video · VIDEO: Abortion liberal media raced to defend UT) and members of Congress released last Tuesday by the Workers ‘Would Just Planned Parenthood. In the first led by Rep. Louie Gohmert (R- Center for Medical Progress Take’ Baby Parts from 9 hours and 30 minutes of news TX) have slammed the media (CMP). During their evening Women – Without shows broadcast after the story for their lack of coverage on and morning news shows, Consent! ABC, NBC and CBS turned a blind eye to the undercover · SHOCK: Planned video that showed a Texas Parenthood Workers abortionist, Amna Dermish, Laugh Over Babies ‘All admitting how she will “strive Mixed Up Together in a for” intact baby heads and finds Bag’ aborted baby hearts “cute.” But, for the networks, Although they haven’t skipping over the videos covered a release since July exposing Planned Parenthood 31, the networks have, more is nothing new. recently, reported on the content The last time a network of a video – but only to attack mentioned the release of a GOP presidential candidate particular video came July Carly Fiorina after she broke, ABC, NBC and CBS, the videos. 31, when CBS This Morning challenged President Barack spent only 39 seconds on the The media similarly correspondent Julianna Obama and Hillary Clinton to first video. It took more than 24 stayed silent on the case of Goldman acknowledged the “watch a fully formed fetus hours before all three covered Philadelphia abortionist Kermit fourth video of a “Planned on the table, its heart beating, the story. In the week after the Gosnell. Gosnell’s trial, in Parenthood doctor in Colorado its legs kicking…” during the first video, the networks gave a which witnesses described baby discussing providing fetal Sept. 16 GOP primary debate. mere 9 minutes and 11 seconds abortion survivors “swimming” tissue for a fee.” to the story (in contrast, the nets in toilets “to get out,” attracted NBC last reported on a Media History devoted more than three times a scant 12–15 reporters. Only specific video July 30, while Since the release of CMP’s that to the Susan G. Komen after 56 days, multiple letters ABC – the worst of all three first video on July 14, the controversy, when the charity from members of the House of networks – last noted a video broadcast networks have temporarily decided to defund Representatives and a public July 16 (keep in mind the first proven hesitant to publicize the the abortion giant). outcry, did all three broadcast video came out July 14). story – and when they did, they ABC, NBC and CBS networks report on Gosnell. That means ABC, NBC refused to even utter the word prioritized animals over Methodology: MRC Culture and CBS haven’t covered “baby.” aborted babies, by covering watched the evening (Oct. 27) the release of the last seven Two months after the first the shooting of Cecil the lion and morning (Oct. 28) network videos filmed by the Center for video’s release, MRC Culture more in one day than they did news shows. MRC Culture also Medical Progress. found that ABC, NBC and these videos in two weeks and searched Nexis for “Planned In other words, ABC, NBC CBS had aired a mere 0.13% of in their reporting on birth of the Parenthood” in ABC, NBC and CBS refused to investigate the CMP footage during their National Zoo’s panda cubs. and CBS morning and evening headlines like these: news shows – or 1 minute, 13 Not only that, but also they news show transcripts. · Full Video: Planned seconds of more than 16 hours. refused to cover the tens Parenthood Partner In early October, MRC Culture of thousands of Americans Editor’s note. This appeared Jokes about Shipping discovered that the networks speaking out against Planned at newsbusters.org and is Intact Baby Heads spent more time combined Parenthood during nationwide reprinted with permission. www.NRLC.org National Right to Life News November 2015 11 Fox 46 interviews mother whose chemical abortion was reversed Baby now five months old By Dave Andrusko

Mega-kudos to Fox 46 WJZY What progesterone Walker’s parents and Walker, through my mind, I just killed in Charlotte, North Carolina does, the treatment who is incredibly cute: my baby, I have a little girl at for its terrific story about we give her, is it puts “Anytime we go home, how is it fair that I just Dr. Matthew Harrison and a extra hormone into somewhere, everyone took an innocent child’s life?” 5-month-old baby boy named her system, the natural says that baby, there’s she told Melugin. Walker who was saved by a new hormone that’s already something special That’s when the story technique that may, if started in her system, and it about that baby,” becomes what Melugin says promptly enough, be able to floods her system with Barnes says. “And some people might consider a reverse the effect of RU-486. progesterone so the I’m like, ‘If you only “miracle.” To understand the reversal, abortion pill doesn’t knew.’” Barnes goggled options about it’s essential to remember that work.” In some ways the story is possibly reversing a chemical RU-486 is actually a two-drug not so different. Barnes and abortion and “found a link technique. In brief what the Melugin personalizes the her boyfriend already had a to abortionpillreversal.com, abortion reversal process does story by talking to Walker’s daughter and when she became which said her pregnancy could is to counteract the first drug, , before the second one, , is ever given, by giving massive dosages of progesterone. The Fox 46 story, presented by Bill Melugin, focuses on Dr. Harrison, who works at Novant Health’s Rowan County Regional Medical Center in Salisbury, N.C. Dr. Harrison, along with Drs. George Delgado and Mary Davenport, are at the forefront of this exciting new development which they call the “Emergency Abortion Pill Reversal Kit.” Dr. Harrison told Melugin “The way the abortion pill works is it [mifepristone] essentially starves the baby by blocking the mother, Autumn Barnes. He pregnant again in 2014, there possibly be saved if she acted natural hormone that’s begins his piece by saying that were bills to pay. quickly.” in the woman’s body, Dr. Harrison “I never thought that I Skeptical (to put it mildly), which is progesterone, has found a way to save would be okay with having an she called the number anyway. thereby breaking the lives before they ever abortion,” Barnes told Fox 46. They found her a doctor connection between the come into this world. “I grew up with a Christian in Fayetteville who had an placenta and the uterus Believe it or not he’s family, and that’s wrong, that’s Abortion Pill Reversal Kit. disrupting nutrients to pioneered a way to so wrong.” Timing is everything–even the baby, causing death. reverse the effects of But thoroughly scared, without taking the second pill, …This is followed 48- the abortion pill, and it she went to Raleigh without the reversal must be started 72 hours later with works. telling anyone and took the Cytotec [misoprostol] mifepristone. “When I got into See “Reversed,” page 38 which induces labor. Melugin sat down with the truck it just kept running 12 November 2015 National Right to Life News www.NRLC.org Baby born missing most of brain turns two, says first word By Nancy Flanders

In March 2013, Emma little hand. I was in total shock.” and although doctors said he was giggling, and then he said, Murray of Scotland was rushed Despite the doctors predicted would never progress beyond ‘Mummy’. He had literally to the hospital with what she prognosis for Aaron, after a the mental age of a newborn, copied what I was saying. I just thought was appendicitis. It week in the hospital, he was he loves to giggle and clap, and stared at him in shock, and then turned out, she was actually in still alive. He was then moved he recently said his first word: I just burst into tears. It was labor. But as she was beginning to Yorkhill Royal Hospital for “mummy.” such an emotional moment.” to process this news, she was hit Jill Yaz from the Association with a devastating diagnosis for for Spina Bifida and her son. As soon as baby Aaron Hydrocephalus told The Daily was born, both the doctors and Mail that it is “fantastic” how Murray knew something was well Aaron is doing, since most wrong. babies with holoprosencephaly “I was foggy from all the die before or at birth. Yaz says pain medication from the that Aaron’s life proves how birth,” Murray told The Daily much we still have to learn Mail. “But I could still see about the human body. that his head was very large. “[…] the body can surprise us My stomach was knotted with and do remarkable things.” Yaz anxiety, but all I could do was said. “[…] the fact that he has lie back and wait for some even survived is remarkable. answers.” It’s a testament to his mother’s Her baby was taken from her love that he is doing so well.” and rushed to the neo-natal No one knows what the future unit. A brain scan showed that has in store for Aaron, who has Aaron has holoprosencephaly, also begun saying “hello.” His a condition in which the brain family is grateful to have the doesn’t form. Aaron has only little boy they describe as happy a brain stem, which meant he and cuddly. They are planning could breathe and had limited a large Christmas celebration at functions, but doctors expected which they plan to give Aaron him to die at any moment, and Jack plenty of gifts to have telling Murray that her son had fun opening. only minutes, possibly hours to Sick Children where doctors “I was just playing with him live. performed surgery to place a in my front room,” explained Editor’s note. This appeared “I was absolutely heart- shunt in his head to drain fluid. Murray. “He was lying on his at liveactionnews.org and is broken,” said Murray. “He was Eight weeks later, Aaron had back on the carpet and I was reprinted with permission. hooked up to every machine proven he was a fighter, and he leaning over him clapping my and had a hat over his head so was sent home with his mother hands, and saying ‘mummy’ we couldn’t see the size of it. I and big brother Jack. to him over and over, really just sat by his cot rubbing his Aaron is now two years old drawing out the sounds. He www.NRLC.org National Right to Life News November 2015 13 Remind Everyone: Abortion Costs Lives!

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Holley Tierney was 23-weeks As Tierney explained Against the advice of doctors, I shouldn’t wait any longer as pregnant when the dance ‘I couldn’t believe Tierney was resolute that she my cancer could spread and I instructor felt a pain in her I was facing cancer would not start chemotherapy needed to start chemotherapy.” chest. She’d carried a sound while pregnant, it was until after the babies were born. Last August, Harlow and his system that day and attributed my worst nightmare. “Once doctors realised I sister Havana were delivered the pain to that. ‘I knew there was no wasn’t having a termination safely, weighing almost 3lbs But better safe than sorry, each. (Harlow is now 7lb, 10oz she went to the hospital in and Havana 6lb, 9oz.) Manchester, England, to have it “Seeing them for the first time checked out. was the best feeling in the world, Doctors initially thought I couldn’t believe they were Tierney had pulled a muscle. mine,” Tierney told Pickles. But they found a shadow on “But it was bittersweet as I kept the X-Ray, later a cancerous thinking I would never have mass: Tierney, 25, had Non- chance to watch them grow up.” Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, a rare A week after the twins were cancer that develops in the born, Tierney began chemo. As lymphatic system. a consequence she was sick and As she told Kate Pickles of lost her hair. the Daily Mail “It was heart breaking but I ‘I’m so thankful to the knew I needed to stay strong doctor in A&E that and positive for my babies,” she pushed for me to have told the Daily Mail. “’They had an X-ray and CT scan fought to stay alive and now I as I was just about to needed to fight for my life and be sent home with a that’s exactly what I’m doing.” pulled muscle, he has Tierney said she will begin saved my life.’ radiotherapy in 2016. By that time she will have completed “Doctors then advised Miss Holley said that seeing her twins for the first time was five cycles of chemo. She said Tierney, from Manchester, to ‘the best feeling in the world’ [Caters News Agency] she is “feeling hopeful.” terminate her pregnancy so It was the happiest day she could start chemotherapy,” way I could terminate they kept pushing for them to of my life when my Pickles wrote. my pregnancy when be born premature but I wanted babies were delivered “But she refused as they were I felt them kick, my my twins to reach 30-weeks safely, it was definitely already starting to kick and maternal instincts before I had a caesarean,” a risk worth taking, all chose to risk her life for her two had already kicked Tierney told the Daily Mail. I cared about was their unborn babies.” in.’ “’But at 29-weeks doctors said health. www.NRLC.org National Right to Life News November 2015 15 PPFA’s Cecile Richards assures Katie Couric all is well By Dave Andrusko

I will give Yahoo News this in that circumstance — with abort their fourth child was as about it. I look at the much credit. In its story about an unintended pregnancy–and undramatic, the no-big-deal positive response from Yahoo Global News Anchor not being able to make her own decision she makes it out to be. Planned Parenthood Katie Couric’s interview with decision about that pregnancy.” Family’s as big as it needed to be, employees……[etc., Planned Parenthood president #3. In the closest thing to so much for you kid. That’s it? etc., etc.] Cecile Richards, it mentions a real question, Couric asks, But I would suggest you that, oh by the way, Couric has “Are you concerned that anti- read what we posted last But how could that possibly donated to Planned Parenthood abortion activists are winning April. In that story we wrote be true? If it was “no big deal,” in the past. But that’s about the campaign for the hearts and about an interview she gave how and why could she tell “it it. Hard-hitting investigative minds of everyday Americans?” to Cosmopolitan in which was important to them that we journalism the story–and the talked about it”? interview itself–it was not. You know your mom is a The interview is everything big shot in the “pro-choice” you would expect. Puff piece movement, runs in powerful is too harsh. This interview has circles, and is joined at the hip only one agenda item: advance to the pro-abortion President of the narrative that Richards, the United States. who makes a half-million But while your mom has dollars plus, is the victim as talked about being non- is her wonderful, wonderful, judgmental; about how having wonderful organization. an abortion is easy as pie; There are three comments about “freeing women,” you worth quoting. didn’t know that she non- #1. “Roe versus Wade is on the judgmentally freed herself by ballot [in the 2016 presidential having an easy-as-pie abortion election],” Richards said. Katie Couric (left) interviews PPFA President Cecile Richards of your brother or sister. “Make no mistake. In fact, Of course that would be a everyone running , pretty much, big deal, which is why my and certainly the frontrunners What should be our response? Richards talked about her sympathies immediately went for the Republican nomination Pro-lifers are delighted that the interview with ELLE magazine out to Richards’ children. make Mitt Romney look like a GOP presidential ranks are that was published in October Finally, Richards denied the liberal when it comes to it, and filled with men and women 2014 in which she talked about possibility that “anti-abortion he said he wanted to overturn who are unequivocally pro-life. her own abortion. activists are winning the Roe versus Wade.” On the flip side, Democrats, led Richards said when she campaign for the hearts and #2. Asked about her own by Hillary Clinton, are as close opened up to ELLE, her minds of everyday American.” [abortion] procedure, Richards to Planned Parenthood as white children’s response to learning What else could she say? responded, “It was a decision is to rice. We will see over the they were short a sibling I could go through all the my husband and I made. It next year which perspective was really awesome. It’s evidence that we are winning was a personal decision. And the American people prefer: interesting, I just talked the “campaign” in both little we have three children that we the win-win pro-life alternative to my kids the other ways and very, very big ways. adore and that are the center or the pawing around in the day, and they knew I’d But you’ve already read about of my life. And we decided body parts of aborted babies as had an abortion, and that in National Right to Life that was as big as our family personified by Ms. Richards’s they were sort of like, News Today on many occasions. needed to be. That was really billion dollar organization. “Mom, it was no big Planned Parenthood, the the story. It wasn’t anything I don’t know and have never deal,” but I could also flagship of the anti-life more dramatic than that. But I met Richards, so I have no way tell it was important movement, is taking on water. can’t imagine a woman being of knowing if the decision to to them that we talked How long before it sinks? 16 November 2015 National Right to Life News www.NRLC.org 3801 Lancaster: American Tragedy hits the box office By Kristi Burton Brown Editor’s note. 3801 Lancaster Reports and complaints – “best for them as well as for and “traumatic.” One young is the address of Kermit including a highly descriptive our society.” He continues, woman–a rape victim–speaks Gosnell’s “Women’s Medical one by a former employee – “When you’re in a situation on film about what appears to Society” abortion clinic. were ignored. Dead women where there’s no good answer, be her at the were coldly pushed aside. sometimes you have to take the hands of Gosnell: While lilting, otherworldly Even the National Abortion answer that is less offensive, When they put the heart music strums in the background, Federation, dealing with the that is less traumatic, that is less monitor around me, that was the voice of Kermit Gosnell personal knowledge that expensive for you long-term.” when I decided, I can’t do this. comes through the phone. His … cousins contemplate how a man [But Gosnell said] “Stop bein’ who they are “quite sure” knew a little baby, stop bein’ a little right from wrong could commit baby,” and he’s poundin on my such atrocities. legs. Next thing I knew, I was Gosnell’s neighbors totally out of it. remember him, that he “took With tears streaming down to the children,” that he kept her face almost constantly, her snakes in a cage in his home. pain so palpable you can feel it, The police officers who first the woman says: stumbled into the formerly I went to him because as “Good Doctor’s” twilight zone a child I was taught that were puzzled by the foot-and-a- policeman and firemen and half length turtles who banged doctors were people that you up against their tanks in the could trust. And you can’t even waiting room. trust them anymore. It turns out reptiles weren’t As a result I can’t have babies. the only life forms Kermit I want a child, but I can’t have Gosnell liked to cage. that. … Every year that goes 3801 Lancaster: American past, I think of my baby that Tragedy opened in theatres I would have had. I just never last Tuesday. The chilling been violated to that extent. documentary poses a But the violation carried on. It host of questions that are wasn’t a violation that stopped. uncomfortable to consider. This is goin’ on for the rest of How did Gosnell become so my life. “very evil”? In the name of “access to Throughout American abortion,” women were abused, Tragedy, Philadelphia District sterilized, killed. Children Attorney R. Seth Williams rails were tortured, mangled, killed. against the inhumanity to man “Abortion access” led to one that was Kermit Gosnell. “My thing: death. comprehension of the English And yet, in a subtle way, language doesn’t and cannot American Tragedy leads us to describe the barbaric nature of the water where we must ask Dr. Kermit Gosnell,” he says. Gosnell’s clinic was the “worst Police officer: “Come up whether ‘normal’ abortion is Williams turns his ire towards abortion clinic” its inspector with your own conclusion how any different. an inept and corrupt state had ever entered, refused to many necks this pair of scissors Descriptions of regular, government that did nothing take action. potentially snipped. … I didn’t common, non-Gosnellian for years. And the “snipping” of necks think they would look as human accurately explain The film eerily goes through continued. as they were.” how babies in the first trimester a list of all the times Gosnell Gosnell, in a shocking Clearly, the women he bend in strange contortions, could have, should have, would statement, admits on film that violated (and the babies, could have been caught. If only those the abortions he performed they speak) dispute Gosnell’s See “Lancaster,” page 38 in power would have cared. – sometimes forced – were determination of “offensive” www.NRLC.org National Right to Life News November 2015 17 Abortions in Iowa drop by 9% in 2014, 40% since 2007! By Dave Andrusko

Thanks to Iowa Right to abortion has dropped 40%! Iowa Right to Life wrote said that when the 2015 Life, NRLC’s state affiliate, In 2007 there were 6,649 Certainly THIRTEEN numbers are published for reminding us of the news abortions performed in Iowa. In Planned Parenthoods Iowans will see an even that abortions in Iowa have 2014 the number had dropped closing in Iowa bigger drop. She noted the dropped not 10%, not 25%, to 4,020 abortions, according to since 2012 has had recent national controversy a significant life- over Planned Parenthood, saving impact. We fueled by videos that opponents are so grateful for say show agency leaders the hundreds of dickering over prices for parts volunteers who of aborted fetuses to be used for pray outside the research. remaining 13 Planned Those videos are making more Parenthood clinics women question the agency, she and Iowa City’s said. “They’re not comfortable Emma Goldman with where Planned Parenthood abortion facility. … is,” she said. Bowen also said she hopes Iowa Right to Life executive to see results from a bill the director Jenifer Bowen, was Legislature passed last spring, interviewed by the state’s requiring abortion providers largest and most influential to offer women the chance to not even 33% since 2007. the Iowa Department of Public newspaper, the Des Moines see an ultrasound image before The latest statistics shows that Health. That was a 9% decline Register. According to undergoing the procedure. the number of babies lost to from 2013! reporter Tony Leys, Bowen Supreme Court agrees to hear lawsuit challenging Texas’ pro-life law From page 1 the justices is a provision As the Houston Chronicle’s blocked Mississippi from by the 2007 decision upholding that requires the abortionist Brian M. Rosenthal wrote Friday, enforcing the law and extended the ban on the grisly partial- to be in the same room as the U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel of the restraining order in 2013. birth abortion technique. And woman receiving the chemical Austin “has twice struck down On July 29, 2014, a different if that weren’t enough, we’re (which is not the parts of the law, but both of those three-judge panel of the 5th told by Richard Wolf, Justice case with so-called ‘web-cam” decisions have been reversed by U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Anthony Kennedy “joined abortions) and that abortionists a New Orleans-based federal blocked the state from enforcing the plurality that concocted follow the protocol approved appeals court [the 5th U.S. the law. The panel split 2-1. the undue burden standard in by the FDA for the use of the Circuit Court of Appeals]. The Worth noting is how blatantly 1992.” two-drug “RU-486” took effect temporarily hostile some stories were to the A decision is expected next technique. before being put on hold by the Texas law while others (such year, probably in June, or H.B. 2 is best known to U.S. Supreme Court.” as the initial CNN story I read) whatever is the end point of outsiders as the bill pro- By contrast, under were much more down the the High Court’s term, right in abortion state Sen. Wendy Mississippi’s H.B. 1390, middle. the middle of the presidential Davis filibustered in 2013. passed in 2012, abortionists For example, USA Today contest. Wolf also decreed Although pro-life Gov. Rick are required to have admitting wrote about how the “tough new “a renewed focus could help Perry quickly called a special privileges at a local hospital, but, restrictions were …”forcing Democrats next year” . session and the bill was unlike Texas’s H.B. 2, the law doctors to have admitting Pro-lifers say that “renewed signed into law, Davis used does not require that abortion privileges at nearby hospitals focus” will help us remind the the enormous publicity as a clinics meet the standards of and requiring clinics to meet public just how radically out of springboard to what turned out ambulatory surgical centers. standards for outpatient surgery the mainstream Hillary Clinton, to be a disastrous campaign to At the eleventh hour Judge centers” and “ threaten….” the likely Democratic nominee, succeed Perry. Daniel P. Jordan temporarily States were “emboldened” is on abortion. 18 November 2015 National Right to Life News www.NRLC.org Senate Democrat Fumbles, Calls Pregnancy Help Resolution “Political Football” By Jay Hobbs

A resolution introduced in Her objection was in about this resolution that I’ve characterized the resolution U.S. Senate that would honor response to Senate Resolution offered today,” Lee said on the celebrating their work, the work of community- 312, authored by Republican Senate floor Tuesday. “Nothing “another effort to pander to supported pro-life pregnancy Senator Mike Lee of Utah, divisive whatsoever. This the extreme Republican base centers was blocked from which would thank the nation’s simply seeks recognition of the by using women’s health and receiving unanimous support 2,500 community-supported great work that is performed constitutionally protected rights last Tuesday, as Democratic pro-life pregnancy centers and by the men and women who as a political football.” Senator Patty Murray medical clinics for their service staff these pregnancy centers. Murray’s opposition follows (Washington) denounced it as a to women and men in difficult There is nothing about it that suit with her Democratic “political football.” pregnancy situations. is a political football. Nothing colleagues at the state levels in Murray, who has received Mirrored in the House of about it that is designed to Illinois and California, the latter over $50,000 in campaign Representatives by House drive a wedge. If calling for of which recently passed a law contributions from Planned Resolution 510, the motions recognition of these brave and requiring pro-life pregnancy Parenthood, NARAL Pro- would designate the week noble men and women who help organizations to advertise Choice America and the Center of Nov. 8 as “National serve people at pregnancy for taxpayer-funded abortions. for — Pregnancy Center Week.” More centers across the country— The California law, known as if that’s divisive, we’ve got the “Reproductive FACT Act” significant problems.” is being challenged in court As the resolution points out, by local centers, as well as pregnancy help organizations Alliance Defending Freedom, that operate nearly exclusively Pacific Justice Institute and on the basis of financial National Institute for Family support from within their own and Life Advocates (NIFLA). communities are responsible “What we are seeing here is for over 200,000 lives saved a radical disconnect between from abortion every year. the pro-abortion agenda of the Offering free, confidential Democratic party and the very services to women and men citizens these lawmakers have facing unexpected or difficult been elected to represent,” Jor- pregnancies, pregnancy help El Godsey, Vice-President of volunteers give over 5.7 million Heartbeat International, said. hours of uncompensated time “Pregnancy help organizations to their communities each year. exist because their local Each day, an average of communities want them there 6,500 people visit a pregnancy and appreciate the heroic work help location, totaling over 2.3 they are doing each and every million served every year—just day. No woman should have under the amount of customers to face a pregnancy alone, including an $11,750 gift from importantly, the resolutions visiting a Planned Parenthood and they don’t have to, thanks Planned Parenthood in 2004 would raise awareness of the on an annual basis. to these caring organizations that totaled more than radically life-saving work of nonprofit The resolution would become and the compassionate people pro-abortion Representatives pregnancy centers and medical the first passed at the federal behind them.” Nancy Pelosi (D-California) clinics, as well as nonprofit level, following 24 state-level While the Senate version and Debbie Wasserman- adoption agencies and resolutions honoring pregnancy of the resolution has been Schultz (D-Florida) maternity homes and commit centers in 18 states, most delayed, the House Energy combined—plus another their respective legislative recently in Colorado. and Commerce Committee is $500,000 from EMILY’s bodies to “support the important Despite the wide reach of reviewing its resolution. So far, List, called the resolution a work of pregnancy care and pregnancy help organizations politically motivated attempt resource centers across the and the value they bring to See “Fumbles,” page 39 by Republicans to “stand in the United States.” the community at virtually way of progress.” “There is nothing divisive no cost to taxpayers, Murray www.NRLC.org National Right to Life News November 2015 19 Support for physician-assisted suicide requires a blind eye to past, present, and future abuses By Dave Andrusko

I’ve known bioethicist Art to more accurate, there hasn’t reported. As NRLC’s Jennifer of death candidates Caplan for over 25 years. been in the United States and Popik, JD, has written have been referred During that time span we won’t be in the future. In the two states for psychological have corresponded back and No one, including Caplan, living under this law evaluation. forth many, many times. He could miss that the euthanasia/ the longest, Oregon … held positions that differ from assisted suicide train had long and Washington, What is even National Right to Life’s from since left the only-when-the- provide evidence that more disturbing is mildly different to radically, patient-is-terminal-and-in-pain safeguards are not that in Washington whole-heartedly different. station. It is running wildly off working is mounting. and Oregon, death Why do I mention this? For track. There are state- certificates are not two reasons. Caplan is, as he So what is Caplan’s answer to issued reports that permitted to give is often described, the “go-to” his own recitation of the grim provide evidence of suicide as the case bioethicist whenever the media of death. Moreover, is looking for an “objective” in those states the perspective on just about every health department imaginable issue that falls under must destroy the the (self-appointed) purview of required underlying bioethicists. reporting paperwork And second, because Caplan after only one year. is seemingly omnipresent–on This makes both network and cable television, potential litigation, on op-ed pages, in news stories, and identifying true and more specialized academic numbers of suicides publications–his views carry very difficult. weight. There was never any doubt One other extremely that Caplan would eventually facts–people are not terminally non-terminally ill important consideration. go public with what clearly (to ill, they want to die because persons receiving lethal Caplan is persuaded that anyone reading his comments) they can’t stop grieving for their prescriptions. Further, the lesson of Oregon and was his private opinion: that lost spouse, they seek assisted there is nothing in Washington is that only a whatever reasons there were suicide because they are going existing law in any relative handful of people will previously to oppose legalizing blind or deaf, for starters? Two state that requires avail themselves of the deadly physician-assisted suicide, answers. doctors to refer concoction. That “handful” experience had taught us (or First, before introducing patients for evaluation will be in the thousands, now at least Caplan) that legalizing these abuses (and others) by a psychologist that California has legalized assisted suicide would not Caplan says, “We have seen a or psychiatrist to assisted suicide. unleash an anti-life genii which little bit of that behavior take screen for depression But note: the rationale for would wreak widespread place in and Holland,” or mental illness. physician-assisted suicide havoc. meaning zipping down the There is also no such has already morphed out of At NRL News Today, we slippery slope. requirement in any pain and terminal illness as reposted a terrific response from A “little bit”? Wow! current proposal in any requirements to just about any Nancy Valko which offered Second, none of that stuff state. justification they can offer. a fine-grained critique of the could happen here in the United The doctors can Moreover, if the last 25 years bottomless well of dubious States. Physician-assisted make a referral, but has taught us anything, it is that assumptions Caplan relies suicide is working swimmingly nearly never do. In the “right to die” in all its many on. She honed in on the very in Oregon and Washington fact, according to iterations, cannot be limited to shaky unpinning of Caplan’s state. the Oregon’s official the competent or even to adults. argument in “More States But it isn’t–indeed, there is no state reports, in 17 Again, to quote Popik Approve Physician-Assisted way to know if the “safeguards” years of legalized (referring to a proposal defeated Dying. Is This Risky?“: that are working because of the way doctor-prescribe there is no slippery slope. Or, the deaths are reported, or not suicide, a mere 5.5% See “Blind Eye,” page 39 20 November 2015 National Right to Life News www.NRLC.org High stakes for upcoming hearing on Kansas Dismemberment Abortion ban By Kathy Ostrowski, Legislative Director, Kansans for Life

On November 9, Kansans for According to state reporting abortions are “laden with the Gonzales that abortionists do Life submitted an amicus curiae data, Kansas has seen a rise power to devalue human life…” not have any right to demand (“friend of the court”) brief in in such horrific abortions, In his dissent to the U.S. certain procedures: “Physicians support of Kansas Attorney from 584 in 2013 to 637 Supreme Court’s 2000 are not entitled to ignore General Derek Schmidt, who is in 2014. All three abortion Stenberg v. Carhart decision, regulations that direct them appealing a lower court decision businesses in Kansas offer Justice Kennedy observed that to use reasonable alternative that blocked implementation of such “procedures,” with one in dismemberment abortions, the state’s first-in-the-nation admitting on national television “The fetus, in many cases, dies Unborn Child Protection from that a dismemberment abortion just as a human adult or child Dismemberment Abortion Act. costs around $2,000.00 would: It bleeds to death as it is A hearing before the full, torn limb from limb. The fetus fourteen-member state Court THE TRUTH OF can be alive at the beginning of Appeals is scheduled for DISMEMBERMENT of the dismemberment process December 9. The fact that this Although pro-abortionists and can survive for a time while appeal of Shawnee District (and nearly every media outlet) its limbs are being torn off.” Court Judge Larry Hendricks’s refer to these abortions as D&E Barbarism is exactly what decision is being expedited to abortions, D&E is actually a the Kansas and Oklahoma the full court, instead of a three- broader term. D&E encompasses legislature intended to stop the removal of baby body when enacting the Unborn parts—whether parts are torn off Child Protection from of still-alive unborn children or Dismemberment Abortion taken off unborn children already Act, yet both states have been dead through the intentional blocked by court injunctions Shawnee County District Court administration of a feticide or from going into effect. Judge Larry Hendricks by the snipping of the umbilical cord. The Kansas and Oklahoma LOWER COURT ADOPTS procedures. The law need not Acts bar dismemberment that ABORTION POSITION give abortion doctors unfettered is performed on a still-living In Judge Hendricks’ decision choice in the course of their unborn child. to issue an injunction in June medical practice.” Abortion attorneys claim that blocking the Act, he declared The abortionists’ argument women’s health demand this that it that the Dismemberment Kansas AG Derek Schmidt barbaric procedure. This was 1) would be an unacceptable Abortion ban restricts a also their claim when it came limitation (“undue burden”) on “common” method is actually member panel, is extremely to partial-birth abortions, which the so-called right to abortion a plea that they be allowed to unusual and shows the high the U. S. Supreme Court rejected created by Roe in 1973 (as the keep methods that are more stakes involved. in their 2007 Gonzales ruling. abortion attorneys interpret it) expeditious and profitable for The Unborn Child Protection Gonzales upheld the federal and them. from Dismemberment Abortion law protecting unborn children 2) violates an even broader Kansans for Life’s amicus Act was enacted in Kansas this from partial-birth abortions based “right” to abortion that the judge brief amplifies why this past April. Days later Oklahoma on the government’s “interest says exists in our 1859-adopted Act conforms to the U.S. enacted the same law. in protecting the integrity and Kansas Constitution. Supreme Court’s position In a dismemberment ethics of the medical profession,” The argument that Kansas that some abortion methods abortion, the abortionist and on the “premise . . . that the has any right to abortion are unacceptable and “will continually reaches into the State, from the inception of the as enshrined in our state further coarsen society to mother’s womb with a variety pregnancy, maintains its own Constitution has repeatedly the humanity of not only of sharp-edged metal clamps regulatory interest in protecting been rebutted and called “a newborns, but all vulnerable and tools, yanking off parts of the life of the fetus that may fantasy” in filings from the and innocent human life, the child and pulling them out, become a child . . . . Attorney General. making it increasingly difficult piece by piece, and placed in Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote Furthermore, the U.S. to protect such life.” a tray. that D&E (dismemberment) Supreme Court said in www.NRLC.org National Right to Life News November 2015 21 2015 Election Day Results: Kentucky, Mississippi, , and Virginia By Karen Cross, National Right to Life Political Director November 3, 2015, was abortion on demand, and (D) in the 13th Senate District. five-member redistricting election day in a handful will ration lifesaving medical In addition to McAuliffe’s commission, which is made of states. Voters headed treatments. support, McCabe was supported up of the court-appointed to the polls in Kentucky, Outgoing pro-abortion by Planned Parenthood, the chair, two Democrats and two Mississippi, New Jersey, Ohio, Governor Steve Beshear nation’s largest abortion Republicans. Pennsylvania, and Virginia. (D) recently claimed that provider, NARAL Pro-Choice “Extreme special interests Following is an overview of Democrats will “make this America, and the pro-abortion poured millions of dollars into the election results, by state. [Obamacare] a major issue and group EMILY’s List. In July, Pennsylvania judicial races, will pound the Republicans into EMILY’s List put pro-life running dreadful TV ads which Kentucky Governor the dust with it.” Senator Black “on notice” when maligned candidates who Despite recent pre-election they targeted him for defeat. would have brought integrity polls showing otherwise, Virginia State House Black defeated McCabe 52% and honor to the bench,” said National Right to Life- and Senate to 47%. Maria Gallagher, legislative endorsed candidate, Matt In a blow to pro-abortion “VSHL is hopeful that the director for Pennsylvania Pro- Bevin (R), defeated pro- Governor Terry McAuliffe pro-life tenor of the elections Life Federation. abortion Attorney General Jack (D), Republicans retained their will encourage the members “What was perhaps most Conway (D), 52% to 44%. slim 21-19 majority in the state of the General Assembly to telling were the outrageous Independent candidate Drew Senate. The state Assembly take hold of this opportunity attacks against women Curtis garnered 4% of the vote. maintained its nearly two- to work even harder to get new candidates who believe in protective pro-life legislation interpreting the law as written, passed,” said Olivia Gans rather than making laws from Turner, president of Virginia the bench,” Gallagher noted. Society for Human Life. “Even “This was an unusual election in the face of opposition from cycle and a difficult year for a pro-abortion governor, the judiciary. Election 2016 in clearly the voters of Virginia Pennsylvania will be a whole are sending a message to him. different ball game – and pro- Passing laws like the Virginia lifers will be ready for it.” Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act will save babies’ Mississippi Governor lives after 20 weeks, when they Pro-life Governor Phil Bryant can feel pain.” (R) soundly defeated Robert Gray (D), 66% to 32% to win a New Jersey State House second term. and Senate Voters in New Jersey gave Louisiana Governor the state Assembly their largest Louisiana voters will Democratic majority since 1979. determine their next governor on November 21. There will Pennsylvania Judicial Races be a runoff that day between In what has been called “one National Right to Life-endorsed of the biggest court shake-ups U.S. Senator David Vitter in recent history,” Pennsylvania (R) and state Rep. John Bel Matt Bevin is a military vet to-one Republican majority, voters elected Democrats for Edwards (D). They are vying and businessman. He and his keeping both houses under pro- all three state Supreme Court for the open seat vacated by wife, Glenna, are the parents of life leadership. positions, giving Democrats a pro-life Governor Bobby Jindal nine children. Gov. McAuliffe targeted the majority on the court. who is running for president. A major focus in Bevin’s 13th senate district race, a race This is significant for many campaign was his opposition being watched statewide. Pro- reasons, one of which is Look for updates in future to Obamacare, which provides life state Senator Dick Black redistricting. The party that National Right to Life News government funding for (R) overcame a challenge by controls the Supreme Court and National Right to Life insurance plans that pay for pro-abortion Dr. Jill McCabe appoints the chair of the News Today. 22 November 2015 National Right to Life News www.NRLC.org British abortionist who agreed to sex-selection abortion given slap on the wrist By Dave Andrusko

In a stunning decision, nothing to do with the results successful prosecution,” the was so far away from stunning because the of the newspaper’s undercover Telegraph’s John Bingham what you knew to be punishment was so investigation. reported. true, that the panel inconsequential, the license of As NRL News Today reported, The GMC concluded that concluded you must a British abortionist who agreed the Crown Prosecution Service Rajmohan acted dishonestly have realised at the to abort a baby because the (CPS) dropped the case, because he agreed to record a time that your actions mother did not want a girl was claiming it ‘was not in the false reason. (Actually he came would be considered suspended for three months. public interest to pursue.” up with the bogus explanation.) as dishonest by the The decision in the case of But faced with a private ‘Despite you ordinary standards Dr, Palaniappan Rajmohan prosecution by pro-lifer Aisling apparently believing of reasonable and was rendered by the General honest members of the Medical Council (GMC) medical profession.’ which heard evidence between October 5 and October 20. Paul Curtis, who chaired the According to the Daily hearing, wrote: Mail, the decision was based “The panel is in no entirely on his dishonesty– doubt that your actions listing that the abortion was have brought the sought because the girl was medical profession into too young–not on the fact that disrepute and would be Rajmohan was caught red- considered deplorable handed in an undercover sting by fellow practitioners. by the Telegraph. “As such, the panel “As part of The Telegraph is satisfied that your sting, a pregnant woman, Abortionist Palaniappan Rajmohan conduct is sufficiently known as Ms. A, visited Dr. serious as to amount to Rajmohan and told him she misconduct. wished to have an abortion Hubert against Rajmohan that the request “The panel has because he and her husband and Manchester abortionist for a termination determined it is in did not want to have a baby Prabha Sivaraman (who was of pregnancy was the public interest girl,” reported Sophie Jane also videotaped agreeing to being based on the to suspend your Evans. “In response, the doctor a sex-selection abortion), the gender of the foetus, registration with allegedly said: ‘That’s not fair. CPS jumped back in, not to you immediately immediate effect in It’s like female isn’t investigate further, but to quash volunteered to Ms order to maintain it?’” the case. A the alternative public confidence in A probe was launched “It is the second time in two reason ‘too young for the profession.” by the police and GMC. years that the CPS has blocked pregnancy’ and sought Rajmohan had originally faced a prosecution against the pair her agreement to this For all that, Rajmohan a criminal charge, but the despite acknowledging that reason. received a slap on the wrist. legal system wanted little to the evidence could lead to a ‘That false reason www.NRLC.org National Right to Life News November 2015 23 Reducing unborn babies to medical waste: how the pro-abortion mind works By Dave Andrusko

This story analyses a bizarre the medical waste. I And in that moment, but maybe it was a spaghetti piece that ran on a prominent avoided it because it my pro-choice position squash. Both weigh about 1 pro-abortion website, was irrelevant to my crystallized. pound. Rhealitycheck.org. work. But I think part While it was shaped I guess Littlefield reasons The irony is that “The Day I of me also avoided like a baby, what I (to use the term in its loosest Learned Aborted Fetuses Aren’t it because I thought was looking at was possible fashion) that because People” bears no relationship to seeing fetal tissue might not a person. It was the patient hadn’t given the [rh]reality. None, at least not the diminish my allegiance a fetus. A fetus my fetus the go ahead to become reality that 99% of us occupy. to my patients patient had chosen not a baby, she could also feel You may find an occasional Oh, you mean you feared to make into a baby. I unattached as well. syllable in Amy Littlefield’s you might feel a tinge of felt no attachment to Her attention, even now, is on piece that tangentially bumps compassion for the child whose it. Relieved, I stepped the woman and thus (well, sort into how almost all of us body has just been torn apart? into the recovery room of thus) the aborted fetus was not understand our lives but that is Nah, not a chance. to check on my patient. a “person.” It was medical waste purely by accident. So, you’re probably Years later, looking which you can incinerate or pass back on this moment, along to “tissue procurement it’s still the patient I companies” who can peddle think about, not the intact baby parts to the lovely fetus. folks who experiment on fetal Her life was what lungs and hearts and livers and mattered. brains for a living. I honestly don’t know exactly Indeed, had the patient so how to respond. The “fetus” wanted, Littlefield’s colleagues wasn’t a “baby” because the could have induced a premature “patient” (the mother) had delivery so the patient could

So what was the day like wondering what I was when Littlefield discovered that wondering when I got to the last “aborted fetuses aren’t people”? three paragraphs of her essay: We learn that “in my former how again did you figure out work,” Littlefield worked as (“learn”) that “aborted fetuses an abortion clinic counselor. aren’t people”? Here it is: “I often avoided seeing what Yet even as I took we called the products of part in hundreds conception—the tissue that of abortions as a results from the union of egg counselor, I think and sperm,” she tells us. on some level, I still “chosen not to make [“it”–the bond with the baby who would To be clear, this is not wondered if seeing baby] into a baby.” die either in delivery or from because that might gross her second-trimester fetal What if the patient decided non-attention after her birth. out but because (a)“For me, tissue could shake the fetus-not-made-into-a-baby Why not? After all. for the embryo—or fetus, in later my pro-choice views. was an orangutan? What if she Littlefield, all that mattered was stages of pregnancy—was Then one day, I was decided the beating heart was a the patient. irrelevant,” and (b) “I wanted offered the unusual miniature Interstate Battery? I have no conclusion except to focus all of my attention on opportunity to see the What if she looked at her baby this. Nothing can shake the my patients.” fetus of a patient who (whoops, fetus), now close to a ”pro-choice views” of people Later she elaborates: had been close to 22 foot long, and decided it was a like Littlefield. Still, in the clinics weeks pregnant. With ruler? Which makes them very, very where I worked, I some trepidation, I Sure the “fetus” may have scary and very, very dangerous tended to avoid seeing accepted. I looked. been “shaped like a baby,” people. 24 November 2015 National Right to Life News www.NRLC.org Man passes out in London theatre (hint: at Ruby Rae Spiegel’s play) By Dave Andrusko So a local British newspaper the “American 22-year-old can see how someone might “I met with a lot of calls it “A ‘hard-hitting’ play,” wunderkind.” have that reaction.” companies in New York but, geez, enough for a guy to The play’s name is “Dry Ah….yes, you could. and often they said ‘We keel over?! Land” and, we’re told, it is a Watts tells us this is not the love this play but we Yup, according to the “searing portrait of adolescent first time medics have been can’t do it because our London Evening Standard, last friendship and resilience called: audiences would not be Wednesday nite at 9:20 pm, to through crisis.” I’m sure it A young female OK with this.’ be exact. is, although the way Spiegel viewer collapsed “One company even Here’s how Matt Watts’ story explained the play it is more during its premiere asked if one of the starts: about the female star athlete The curtain fell taking advantage of the shy halfway through the awkward nerdy newcomer. performance of Dry But it is first and foremost Land at the Jermyn about Milly Thomas’ character Street Theatre last (and here are the missing seven night after the man in words) “who miscarries after his 50s collapsed. taking an abortion pill.” The auditorium Of course, it is not a was evacuated “miscarriage” at all, but rather with one audience a Do-It-Yourself, chemically- member dashing into induced abortion which has neighbouring Italian become an absolute obsession restaurant Getti in with the pro-abortion set. search of a doctor. “During the performance An off-duty nurse a middle-aged man in the from Great Ormond audience collapsed just after Street Hospital dining the depiction on-stage of a self- at the restaurant gave induced abortion,” a spokesman the casualty first aid as for the theatre said. paramedics arrived. “The man, believed The man collapsed at to be in his mid-fifties, A scene from Dry Land (Alastair Muir) about 9.20pm shortly keeled forward and his after a scene in which female partner stopped at Yale University scenes could be cut. the main character Amy, the show. The theatre in Connecticut and It was the abortion a high school student was evacuated and an several US theatres scene, so very pivotal. played by Milly Thomas ambulance was called. subsequently refused My philosophy is that [words omitted]. “After being assessed to host it. I’m trying to show the Blood spills across the in the ambulance the The Jermyn Street experience of abortion stage as Thomas, who man was taken to a warns ticket-buyers without shame.” appeared in Downton nearby hospital.“ the 90-minute play is Abbey, screams and not suitable for under Of course showing a graphic, writhes in anguish for So what provoked his 12s and “includes brutal, bloody play “without several minutes. response? Watts quotes the references to and shame” has its own rewards. Evening Standard Theatre critic scenes of a sexual or “It received a five-star review What seven words did I Fiona Mountford who said violent nature.” in when it omit? Does the name Ruby “There is a lot of stage blood premiered in New York,” Watts Rae Spiegel ring a bell? and it’s a very evocative and Spiegel plays the pity/brave writes, “and opened at the Jermyn We’ve twice written about powerful stuff. artist card. Watts tells us that Street Theatre on November 3, the woman Watts describes “It’s reasonably graphic. You Spiegel told What’s On Stage running until November 21.” www.NRLC.org National Right to Life News November 2015 25 “Atrocities against humanity”? Allow people to see the videos and judge PPFA’s behavior for themselves

By Dave Andrusko

In late October we posted on just happens to be, Whole Woman’s Health, also comes out first rather than the NRL News Today two stories like, the sweet spot,” in Texas] need prompting to normal head first–a “cephalic about the eleventh undercover he explains, saying laugh. presentation.” “Calvarium” video released by the Center for researchers “don’t Second if Barajas watched refers to the baby’s skull.) Medical Progress. The outrage want to be playing the entire video he would find Dermish: It was you experience at reading what ‘find the liver! Oh, lots of examples of brutally trunk intact, so usually the abortionist from the Planned it’s in eight pieces.’” insensitive language, the kind what I do, if it’s a Parenthood of Greater Texas at At another point, that will upset 99% of the breech presentation, Austin said is magnified many the guy brings up population, including most I’ll remove the times over if you actually researchers’ requests pro-choicers. To cite just two extremities first, the watch her, listen to her, and lower extremities, and observe her revealing body then go for the spine language. (See youtube.com/ and sort of bring it watch?v=ZkaZ YQ8ZGTE) down that way, and But to someone like Michael then— Barajas of the Houston Press, Buyer: You said it’s hard to suppress a yawn. if that’s a breech “ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER presentation? ANTI-ABORTION STING Dermish: If it’s a VIDEO” perfectly captures breech presentation, his “been-there, seen-that, lies, yeah, yeah. And if it’s lies, lies” attitude. cephalic I’ll try and get Really? That’s all there is to the cal[varium] first, it? Let’s see. but if I’m struggling Barajas takes especial getting the cal, usually interest because, he says, it’s a function of how this is the second CMP video good my dilation is, that features someone from often times it’s hard Texas. He quotes from a to get around the spokeswoman from Planned for intact fetal brains, examples. Dermish says cal. Especially the Parenthood, who offers up the to which [abortionist One of our POC 20 weekers are a lot usual “false claims” based on Amna] Dermish persons is really into harder versus the “a manipulated conversation” says, “I haven’t been organ development. 18-weekers, so at that response. able to do that yet.” Buyer: Oh really? point I’ll switch to Barajas writes “Maybe next time!” he Dermish: Yeah, she’ll breech, so. Anti-abortion activists responds, laughing, to pull out like kidneys, Buyer: Good. I was will likely point to a which Dermish says, and heart and like just curious what we couple of exchanges “Well, this will give heart we frequently might be working with. from the 12-minute me something to strive see at 9 weeks and she Dermish : I always video as evidence of, as for.” always looks for it. try and keep the trunk the Center for Medical intact just by function Progress puts it, Two things. First, the quote (POC refers to “products of of always trying to aim “Planned Parenthood’s is truncated and the sentiments conception”–unborn babies.) for the spine to bring it atrocities against about not having to look for a At that juncture, Ferrigno, down. humanity.” liver track very closely what who has had little to say, chimes tissue procurement companies in, “Well it’s cute. It is cute.” CMP calls examples such as Barajas then offers this: say is why they want intact fetal And then there is the jaw- these ”Planned Parenthood’s At one point, the organs. And as you watch the dropping exchange after atrocities against humanity.” undercover activist video, neither Dermish nor the the buyer asks about “the My strong suspicion is upon tells the clinic workers other abortion representative intactness” of the “specimen.” listening to Dermish, virtually that researchers want who was part of the conversation [To understand what Dermish is anyone not working for the fetuses at a later [Andrea Ferrigno, identified as saying, a “breech presentation” Abortion Industry might agree. gestation — “that the Corporate Vice President, means the baby’s feet or bottom 26 November 2015 National Right to Life News www.NRLC.org China’s new two-child policy will not end forced abortion or gendercide

Editor’s note. This analysis to end forced abortion, unmarried woman to have a there were 190 boys for every comes from Women’s Rights forced sterilization, or forced child. Regardless of the number hundred girls born. This study Without Frontiers. contraception. of children allowed, women stated, “sex selective abortion Coercion is the core of the who get pregnant without accounts for almost all the BEIJING, CHINA–In late policy. Instituting a two-child permission will still be dragged excess males.” October Xinhua News Agency policy will not end forced out of their homes, strapped Because of this gendercide, reported that China will move abortion or forced sterilization. down to tables, and forced to there are an estimated 37 to a two-child policy for all The problem with the one- abort babies that they want. million Chinese men who will couples, “abandoning its child policy is not the number Further, instituting a two-child never marry because their decades-long one-child policy.” future wives were terminated Characterizing this latest before they were born. This modification as “abandoning” gender imbalance is a powerful, the One-Child Policy is driving force behind trafficking misleading. A two-child policy in women and sexual slavery, will not end any of the human not only in China, but in rights abuses caused by the neighboring nations as well. One Child Policy, including Sending out the message that forced abortion, involuntary China has “abandoned” its one- sterilization or the sex-selective child policy is detrimental to abortion of baby girls. sincere efforts to stop forced The reason given for abortion and gendercide in this adjustment is entirely China, because this message demographic: “to balance implies that the one-child policy population development is no longer a problem. In a and address the challenge of world laden with compassion an ageing population.” The fatigue, people are relieved to adjustment is a tacit admission cross China’s one-child policy that continuation of the one- off of their list of things to child policy will lead to Reggie Littlejohn, speaking at a Capitol Hill press conference on worry about. But we cannot Chinese human rights. (Photo credit: Reuters.) economic and demographic do that. Let us not abandon the disaster. The policy was women of China, who continue originally instituted for of children “allowed.” Rather, policy will not end gendercide. to face forced abortion, and economic reasons. It is ironic it is the fact that the CCP is Indeed, areas in which two the baby girls of China, who that through this very policy, telling women how many children currently are allowed continue to face sex-selective China has written its own children they can have and are especially vulnerable to abortion and abandonment. economic death sentence. then enforcing that limit gendercide, the sex-selective The one-child policy does not Noticeably absent from the through forced abortion and abortion of females. need to be modified. It needs to Chinese Communist party’s forced sterilization. There is According to the 2009 British be abolished. announcement is any mention no guarantee that the CCP will Medical Journal study of data Sign our petition to end of human rights. The Chinese cease their appalling methods of from the 2005 national census, forced abortion at http:// Communist Party (CCP) has enforcement. Women will still in nine provinces, for “second womensrightswithoutfrontiers. not suddenly developed a have to obtain a government- order births” where the first org/index.php?nav=sign_our_ conscience or grown a heart. issued birth permit, for the first child is a girl, 160 boys were petition Even though it will now allow and second child, or they may born for every 100 girls. In all couples to have a second be subject to forced abortion. two provinces, Jiangsu and child, China has not promised It will still be illegal for an Anhui, for the second child, www.NRLC.org National Right to Life News November 2015 27 Jahi Family: Examining Neurologist Finds She’s Alive By Wesley J. Smith

When last we visited the interaction between in December of 2013, Woof. That should be enough Jahi McMath case, a judge the hypothalamus based on the diagnosis to get the case beyond the gave her mother the chance (part of the brain), of brain death. Her pleadings stage and into the to file an amended complaint the pituitary gland, brain is alive in the collection and presentation of showing that Jahi is alive, with and the ovaries. Other neuropathological evidentiary proof. the assurance that if properly aspects of pubertal sense and it is not If the neurologist testifies to pleaded, evidence of life could development also necrotic. At this time, what the complaint says–and be brought She seems to have require hypothalamic Jahi does not fulfill if he or she has the credentials done just that. function. Corpses California’s statutory claimed–history could be From Thaddeus Mason Pope’s do not menstruate. definition of death, made. blog Medical Futility, quoting Neither do corpses which requires the Stay tuned… the amended complaint: undergo sexual irreversible absence 30. Since the maturation. There is of all brain function, Editor’s note. This appeared Certificate of Death no precedent in the because she exhibits on Wesley’s great blog at was issued, Jahi has medical literature of hypothalamic function www.nationalreview.com/ been examined by a a brain dead body and intermittent res- corner/426750/jahi-family- physician duly licensed developing the onset ponsiveness to verbal examining-neurolgist-finds- to practice in the State of menarche and the commands. shes-alive-wesley-j-smith of California who is an larche. experienced pediatric 35. Based upon the neurologist with triple pediatric neurologist’s Board Certifications evaluation of Jahi, in Pediatrics, Jahi no longer fulfills Neurology (with standard brain death special competence criteria on account in Child Neurology), of her ability to and lectroencephalo- specifically respond to graphy. The physician stimuli. The distinction has a sub-specialty in between random cord- brain death and has originating movements published and lectured and true responses to extensively on the command is extremely topic, both nationally important for the and internationally. diagnosis of brain This physician has death. Jahi is capable personally examined of intermittently Jahi and has reviewed responding inten- a number of her tionally to a verbal medical records and command. studies performed, 36. In the opinion including an MRI/ of the pediatric MRA done at Rutgers neurologist who University Medical has examined Jahi, Center on September having spent hours 26, 2014. This doctor with her and reviewed has also examined numerous videotapes 22 videotapes of Jahi of her, that time has responding to specific proven that Jahi has not requests to respond followed the trajectory and move… of imminent total 34. The female body deterioration menstrual cycle and collapsed that involves hormonal was predicted back 28 November 2015 National Right to Life News www.NRLC.org A pro-life conversation guide for the holidays By Paul Stark

Editor’s note. Yes, it is amazing. bathtub. The question at hand as each of us, only at a much are equal in having basic Even though Thanksgiving is is whether the unborn, like a earlier stage of development. dignity and a right not to be weeks away, you already see toddler, deserves full moral This fact is uniformly affirmed killed without just cause. Christmas decorations and respect and ought not be killed by embryology textbooks and ideas for presents. The following for the convenience or benefit leading experts. (3) Know how to respond to remains my favorite advice how of others. If so, killing the Morally, no relevant common objections to promote the cause of life in unborn by abortion, like killing difference exists between Claims by abortion advocates an effective and non-offensive a toddler for the same reasons, human beings before and after about the number of women manner. My only suggestion is a serious moral wrong. birth. Unborn humans differ who died from illegal abortions might be to move (7) up to (1). from older humans, such as are wildly overstated, as (2) Know how to articulate newborns, in their size, level NARAL co-founder Dr. The holiday dinner table the pro-life argument of development, environment Bernard Nathanson frankly offers a natural forum for The pro-life position is that and degree of dependency— admitted. According to the congenial (hopefully!) elective abortion unjustly remember the helpful acronym Centers for Disease Control, conversation about current takes the life of an innocent SLED—but none of those 39 women died from illegal events and issues. Defenders human being. This position is differences are significant in a abortion in 1972, the year before of unborn human life Roe v. Wade, while should be prepared 24 died from legal to take advantage of abortion (abortion opportunities when had been legalized in they arise. Here are some circumstances some suggestions to in some states). help you effectively Maternal mortality discuss abortion with improved in the family members and decades preceding friends who may not Roe as a result of share the pro-life advances in modern view. medicine having nothing to do with (1) Know how to legal abortion. clarify If you cannot the issue answer a challenge, When faced with don’t let it fluster an argument or you. Be honest and reason for abortion, say you will get back ask yourself whether to the challenger it works to justify after thinking and killing obvious examples of supported by modern science way that would justify killing reading more about the issue. rights-bearing human beings, (showing that what abortion the former. For example, a such as newborn babies, kills is a human being, a five-year-old child lacks the (4) Know facts about fetal toddlers, teenagers and adults. member of our species) physical and mental abilities development If not, it assumes that the being together with a foundational of a 10-year-old, but she is no In addition to knowing that killed by abortion, the unborn moral principle (the equal less valuable and deserving of the life of a human organism, (i.e., the human embryo or fundamental dignity and right respect and protection. a human being, begins at “fetus”), is not an intrinsically to life of every member of the Each of us has a right to life conception (see above), it is valuable human being, like human family). by virtue of what (i.e., the useful to know some details toddlers and teenagers—that The science of embryology kind of being) we are, rather about the development of is, it simply assumes the very tells us that the unborn from than because of acquired human beings in the womb. conclusion it must defend. conception is a distinct, living characteristics or abilities that These facts bring home for For example, a woman should and whole human organism—a only some human beings have not have a “right to choose” member of the species Homo and others do not. So all human See “Conversation,” page 40 to drown her toddler in the sapiens, the same kind of being beings, including the unborn, www.NRLC.org National Right to Life News November 2015 29 Prepare to Win in 2016: Register to Vote By Karen Cross, National Right to Life Political Director

We’re one year out from unborn children is with their and every life saved is priceless. West Virginia church. Fifteen election day: November 8, vote. The impact pro-life If you have never voted, or if people including the pastor 2016. In fact, we’re only voters make in sending pro- you have moved since you last and his wife registered to vote! months away from the first life candidates to Congress, voted, you will need to register They meant to register after presidential primary elections! the White House, and their to vote. If you will be 18 years they moved but had not found old by November 8, 2016, you the time. can register to vote. In a close race, a few votes You can register to vote may make a difference. on-line by going to https:// Remember, lives are at stake, ssl.capwiz.com/nrlc/e4/ and elections have consequences. nvra/?action=form&state=/ Dire consequences when the Are your pro-life friends White House is inhabited by prepared? a pro-abort who vetoes life- As an ambitious pro-lifer – affirming legislation. by virtue of the fact that you’re Make a difference for 2016. If reading this article, I consider you’re not registered to vote, do you an ambitious pro-lifer – it now. Once you’re registered, you will want to be sure all of or if you’re already registered, your pro-life friends and family make sure your pro-life friends are ready to vote. are registered as well. An even more ambitious It makes a world of difference pro-lifer will organize a voter to those whose lives depend on registration drive in their us. church or community. Look for updates in future Are you prepared? state capitols is immeasurable. Some years ago, a local pro- National Right to Life News One of the most important Research demonstrates that life chapter organized a voter and National Right to Life ways anyone can help save pro-life legislation saves lives, registration drive in a small News Today. Adoption: A loving, life-saving, realistic alternative to abortion From page 5 homes were more likely to be read to, to public assistance, and achieve greater fi- attend church, and to participate in extra- nancial stability. curricular activities. Those parents over- Adoption affirms the unborn child’s whelmingly describe relationships with right to life, allowing each baby to enter their children as “very warm” and say that the world as a blessing for another fami- they would make the same decision again. ly. Adopted children do well in school and There are challenges and conflicts in any show high levels of self-esteem, optimism, relationship, but adoption appears to offer social competency, and feelings of securi- significant benefits for everyone involved. ty. They are less likely to be depressed, use Adopting parents, obviously, have the alcohol, and engage in vandalism, theft, joy, challenge, expense, and reward of group fighting, and use weapons. [1] loving and raising a child, watching him In this month celebrating adoption, let or her succeed, stumble, and eventually us honor and thank those many wom- grow into responsible adulthood. en and men who have stepped forward, Adoption can be good for single moth- opened their hearts, and given these kids ers facing crisis pregnancy situations as a chance. well, offering them a viable alternative if they are unable or un- willing to raise their children themselves. Pregnant mothers who [1] This material from a literature synthesis by Patrick Fagan, of allow their child to be adopted are more likely to finish school, the Marriage & Religion Research Institute, in an 11/29/10 report obtain a higher level of education, attain better employment, avoid “Adoption Works Well.” 30 November 2015 National Right to Life News www.NRLC.org Aston University study is “sheer propaganda” Editor’s note. This comes sex-selective abortion and by the service provider – not the clinic was real help and from our pro-life British friends aborting disabled babies. independently sourced. support–something that they at the Society for the Protection It is factors like these–as well The interviewees/respondents are not offered in BPAS clinics– of Unborn Children. If you as the poor level of academic are not distinguished between in short, a genuine choice. have time to read the “study,” rigour shown in the study’s women undergoing abortions The poor quality of the “study” which you can access from the final report– that raises serious and others – the parents, girl- stands in contrast to much of the SPUC analysis, you’ll quickly questions as to why anyone friends, partners, or perhaps research that other members of understand that it is wildly should take this study at face abusers of the clinics’ clients the university produce. It does biased, beginning with the hoax value. – who might well have an not even include a copy of an that the BPAS comment form is interview questionnaire as used “non-directive.” by the clinics. “BPAS” is an acronym for Nor does it include any the British Pregnancy Advisory proper statistical breakdown of Service. Aston University is responses. located in Birmingham, England. “Flawed from the outset” Eleanor McCullen stands outside Planned Parenthood “The approach is flawed in Boston every Tuesday and from the outset in failing to Wednesday. The lead plaintiff encompass the perspective in a case before the Supreme of women who took up the Court, McCullen says her offer of help from pavement- constitutional rights are violated counsellors and decided to keep by a law that requires her and their babies. other anti-abortion protesters to “It is also worth noting the Eleanor McCullen stands outside Planned Parenthood in Boston every remain outside a 35-foot buffer Tuesday and Wednesday. The lead plaintiff in a case before the Supreme context in which the authors zone marked by the yellow Court, McCullen says her constitutional rights are violated by a law that have chosen to publish their paint on the sidewalk around requires her and other anti-abortion protesters to remain outside a 35- report. The page on which they the clinic's entrance. foot buffer zone marked by the yellow paint on the sidewalk around the have published their findings is Eleanor McCullen stands clinic’s entrance. accompanied by a photo that outside Planned Parenthood appears to be a crowd of 100 in Boston every Tuesday and “Poor quality of research” interesting perspective on those or more people in a continental Wednesday. The lead plaintiff offering women alternatives, street holding banners in Polish in a case before the Supreme Paul Tully, SPUC’s General but whose views are likely to or Czech. Court, McCullen says her Secretary, was unimpressed by distort results, and make the “This gives a misleading constitutional rights are violated the study: assertion in the first paragraph impression of pavement by a law that requires her and “This ‘report’ represents above, that the presence of anti- counsellors (who typically other anti-abortion protesters to a regrettable effort to prop abortion activists “represents a operate solo near a clinic remain outside a 35-foot buffer up a political initiative by a significant source of distress” entrance, with 3 or 4 supporters zone marked by the yellow commercial private medical hardly supportable on the data. standing a few yards away paint on the sidewalk around service – an abortion clinic praying). The use of the terms the clinic’s entrance. chain – designed to protect 75% of responses ignored “protest” and “demonstration” BPAS is one of the largest commercial interests. are inaccurate and misleading. abortion chains in the country The poor quality of the “Further, the study itself “The authors have also been and has been actively lobbying research is painfully evident notes (paragraph 8) that only very clear about their personal for “buffer zones” which would from reading the report, which about a quarter (perhaps less?) support for BPAS’s political ban pro-life counsellors from blandly admits many of the of the respondents said that campaign for buffer zones, and peacefully offering women gross flaws – the use of leading it was inappropriate to allow have been making that case in alternatives outside abortion language in the questions, the anti-abortionists to stand near the press. It is hardly surprising clinics. They support abortion reliance of the commercial clinics. Perhaps the other three- that this ‘report’ is nothing but on demand for any reason all provider to supply data, etc. The quarters recognised that what sheer propaganda.” the way up to birth – including data, such as it is, is provided they were being offered outside www.NRLC.org National Right to Life News November 2015 31 Autos for Life races towards the end of the year! Can you help? By David N. O’Steen, Jr. The Holidays are just around vulnerable. Please don’t miss directly to helping the National number, condition, features, the corner, and 2015 will this opportunity to qualify for a Right to Life Educational the good, the bad, etc.) along be over before we know it! tax deduction by donating your Foundation spread the truth with several pictures (the more, We want to thank the many used vehicle. There is still time about abortion and defend the better), and we’ll take care generous donors who donated for you to participate this year! the lives of unborn babies. of the rest! 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Democrats). However, in the This is the best opportunity U.S. Senate, 60 votes were to place a pro-life bill on the required to take up the bill. Only president’s desk. If we had a 54 senators (51 Republicans pro-life president, he or she and three Democrats) voted to would sign the bill into law. take up the bill. Simply put: for pro-lifers, More recently, the U.S. what is needed to alleviate this House voted (240-189) to frustration with Congress is to defund Planned Parenthood, elect a pro-life president, elect the nation’s largest abortion more pro-lifers to the U.S. provider, in the Restoring Senate, and maintain pro-life Americans’ Healthcare Freedom leadership in both houses. Reconciliation Act (H.R. 3762). Because it is a budget Look for updates in future reconciliation bill, it cannot be National Right to Life News and NRL Political Director Karen Cross appeared on EWTN Nightly News to filibustered in the Senate, so National Right to Life News. discuss Hillary Clinton's pro-abortion record and only 51 votes are required. pro-life prospects in 2016. 32 November 2015 National Right to Life News www.NRLC.org Adopted abortion facility worker -- It’s ‘difficult’ seeing 26-week aborted babies By Sarah Terzo This quote is from an it so much harder to look at about feet in over its abortion facility worker at twenty-six weeks my adoption. That head in a baggie, who was herself adopted. than at thirteen could have been there’s just that Her facility had recently weeks. I don’t me. You know, brief moment of “this could have been me,” which I fundamentally believe is okay. She should have had a right to choose that, and I, being a religious person, believe that things happen for a reason… It’s much more difficult when you see a twenty-six week face. The aborted babies she is talking about would be a week older than the one in the photo. From Wendy Simonds Abortion at Work: Ideology and Practice in a Feminist Clinic. (New started doing abortions up know what makes had my natural Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers to the 26th week: handling the tissue mother had access University Press, 1996) There’s lots of so much harder…. to abortion, this days when it’s For me, there’s easily could have Editor’s note. This ap- really, really a lot of probably been me. And when peared at liveactionnews. hard… I don’t some hidden guilt you’re, you know, org and is reprinted with know what makes that I’m not willing putting a fetus’s permission. www.NRLC.org National Right to Life News November 2015 33 Germany Legalizes Assisted Suicide-As Long As It Is “Free” By Nancy Valko

Editor’s note. This appeared Why Germany? about the famous study of the and problems of euthanasia/ on Nancy’s blog at http:// The law is a surprise to many, willing participation of nurses assisted suicide in European nancyvalko.com/2015/11/11/ especially since Germany has titled “Killing while caring: the countries like the Netherlands, germany-legalizes-assisted- long been sensitive to the issue nurses of Hadamar.” Belgium, Luxembourg and suicide-as-long-as-it-is-free/ of euthanasia following its Switzerland show the danger history in World War II when What can we expect? of first accepting a supposedly While the UK Parliament the Nazis used the practice to Former Justice Minister “limited” assisted suicide law. overwhelmingly defeated a kill over 200,000 people with Brigitte Zypries said the new For example, the Netherlands physician-assisted suicide mental and physical disabilities German assisted suicide law now uses lethal injections to bill in September 2015, less as well as millions of Holocaust “will open an era of great legal dispatch infants with disabilities than two months later the victims. uncertainty” and will certainly and adults of any age even German parliament has passed Actually, the 1945 Hadamar be appealed to the Federal without physical illness or a law legalizing some assisted Trial involving euthanasia by Constitutional Court. consent. Belgium has done suicides. As Reuters News healthcare professionals at the But If efforts to stop the planned organ donation after reported: euthanasia by lethal injection “The bill, which was with the Ethics Committee upheld with 360 out of of Eurotransplant even 602 votes, criminalizes formulating recommendations organizations that for organ donation after assist patients in euthanasia. And Switzerland terminating their own has a booming business with lives for profit. It is assisted suicide organizations meant to prevent the like Exit and Dignitas even commercialization though a study showed that of the procedure as a 16% of assisted suicide deaths “suicide business.” in Switzerland are of people However, single who have no underlying illness. instances of suicide assistance – by a doctor Conclusion or relative – do not As the late Richard John contradict the new law. Neuhaus wisely said, ” I believe A husband who helps in the slippery slope the same his terminally ill wife way I believe in the Hudson to die would not be A memorial to Nazi euthanasia victims River. It’s there.” prosecuted. But until we are ready to “Commercial” assisted Hadamar psychiatric clinic German law fail, the law will recognize the potent logic about suicide would be punished by was the first mass atrocity trial doubtless be expanded in the the disastrous and unintended up to three years imprisonment, in the US zone of Germany future as other countries in consequences when we legalize even if doctors allegedly following World War II. As Europe have done. “just a little bit” of legalized perform the procedure to a nurse, I was particularly Although ignored or dismissed medical killing, we may find that relieve suffering. horrified when I first read in the US, the expansion the slippery slope has no bottom. 34 November 2015 National Right to Life News www.NRLC.org Legal Woes Force Klopfer to Quit Doing Abortions at His Last Operating Abortion Business Klopfer Dropped His Appeal of the State’s Decision to Not Renew His Operating License in South Bend

Editor’s note. NRL News revealed multiple additional and safety hazards at his Gary safety of women who sought Today has written many stories deficiencies, including facility. Despite being barred abortions from him in Gary, about longtime itinerant Klopfer’s failure to abide by from doing abortions in Fort Fort Wayne and South Bend, abortionist Ulrich Klopfer Indiana’s 18-hour notification Wayne, Klopfer continued to and we’re relieved he is finally and the state of Indiana. The law that requires a woman see patients there and referred being shut down. Hoosier following, from Indiana RTL, to give her voluntary and them to South Bend for their women deserve better. We explains that as of November extend our appreciation to the 6, Klopfer would no longer be Pence administration and the able to do abortions at his only ISDH for refusing to sweep remaining abortion facility, Klopfer’s shady practices under Women’s Pavilion in South the rug. It’s a good day for the Bend, Indiana. health and safety of Hoosier women.” Indianapolis–Longtime Jeanette Burdell, Executive Indiana itinerant abortionist Director of St. Joseph County Ulrich Klopfer, will no longer Right to Life, stated, “No other be able to do abortions at medical facility would be able his only remaining abortion to get away with the things facility, Women’s Pavilion Women’s Pavilion has been in South Bend, Indiana. The doing for years. Women’s lives facility must cease doing are at risk when abortions at close of business is administered improperly, on Friday, November 6. medication is expired, staff Klopfer dropped his appeal of Ulrich Klopfer (WSBT photo // Jade Birch) is under-trained and infection the Indiana State Department of control is lacking, to name Health’s (ISDH) June decision informed consent and view the abortion procedures. but a few of the facility’s to not renew his South Bend fetal ultrasound and hear the Even though Klopfer does not problems. And when abortions facility operating license. That fetal heartbeat, at least 18 hours have a licensed abortion facility on 13-year-old girls aren’t decision came on the heels of before an abortion. Indiana law in the state, he still has an reported in a timely manner as two complaints by the ISDH to allowed Klopfer to continue active Indiana medical license. required by law, children are in revoke his South Bend facility doing abortions while he However, that could change danger of sexual abuse.” operating license. Klopfer was appealed the ISDH’s decision on December 3 when Klopfer “We have been working for scheduled to appear before to not renew his operating appears before the Indiana many years to call attention an administrative law judge license. Medical Licensing Board. to the Women’s Pavilion’s starting November 4, in a Klopfer, an Illinois resident, Klopfer faces an disregard for the health and hearing that could have taken operated abortion facilities for administrative licensing safety of women in St. Joseph up to three days. decades in Gary, Fort Wayne, complaint by the Indiana County, and to ensure that Dr. The ISDH filed the first and South Bend. Klopfer lost his Attorney General’s office Klopfer and his facility are held complaint to revoke Klopfer’s Fort Wayne back-up physician of 1,833 alleged abortion- accountable for the substandard South Bend operating license with admitting privileges, related violations. The Medical conditions and health code in January. According to the required by an Allen County Licensing Board could strip violations at the clinic,” said complaint, the facility was ordinance and state code, in Klopfer of his medical license Tom Gill, President of St. charged with violating Indiana December 2013, rendering him or take other disciplinary action Joseph County Right to Life. Code 16-21 and multiple health unable to do abortions in Fort against him. “We commend all of those and safety rules. In June, the Wayne in 2014 and 2015. “Years of shoddy abortion individuals, organizations and ISDH filed a second complaint In June, Klopfer surrendered practices have finally caught up institutions that have worked to revoke Klopfer’s South Bend his operating license for his with Dr. Klopfer,” said Cathie side-by-side to bring about operating license, following a Gary facility. The surrender Humbarger, Indiana Right this positive, life-affirming and license complaint investigation followed the release of an to Life’s Vice President of health-endorsing outcome for of the facility by the ISDH. alarming report by the ISDH Policy Enforcement. “Klopfer our community.” The June investigation showing deplorable conditions compromised the health and www.NRLC.org National Right to Life News November 2015 35 Kermit Gosnell, PPFA, and Hillary Clinton From page 2 What else do they share in the womb rather than inside. Should she become president, planning is an important part common? Many things but let’s What’s the big deal? it’s not like Hillary Clinton of women’s health,” Clinton end with this. PPFA terminates the lives of would enter the Oval Office told Smith. “And reproductive In a real sense listening over 320,000 unborn babies as some sort of brain-washed health includes access to to Gosnell and Planned each and every year. Practically Manchurian candidate. She abortion that I believe should Parenthood and Clinton is like a public service (never mind needs no persuasion. She knows be safe, legal, and rare.” monitoring the needle on a the millions and millions that exactly what abortion is. To She believed then, and she seismograph. It shows you both pour into the already over- her it is a positive good, which believes now, that “broader the up-down motions of the pro- flowing Planned Parenthood is why Clinton is so eager to human development” is tied to abortion mind at work and the coffers from aborting unborn export abortion abroad. “women’s reproductive rights,” destruction they’ve unleashed. children). That the slaughter of At a 2009 House Foreign as she explained in her March What everyone else would over 1 million unborn children Affairs Committee hearing, 7 speech marking International interpret (if they were made each year is gradually toppling pro-life Congressman Chris Women’s Day. aware!) as an earthquake is the edifice of respect for all Smith, questioning Clinton Gosnell, Planned Parenthood, not even a tremor to them. So vulnerable life--the campaign about whether euphemisms and Hillary Clinton. The Gosnell slits the spinal cords for physician-assisted suicide (such as “reproductive health”) executioner, the face of the of babies he deliberately aborts is no coincidence--is either are code for abortion. “We Abortion Industry, and the alive. He killed them outside ignored or denied. happen to think that family protector. The importance of the 2016 elections From page 2

Gov. Martin O’Malley and seems bound and determined Democratic Socialist Senator to give reasons to solidify that Bernie Sanders (VT.) And, assessment. The latest is a story as we have already seen, at she continues (for reasons that the drop of an imaginary hat, make sense only to her) to offer Clinton’s campaign will scream up--that around1975 she tried to “sexism.” join the Marines. (And, no, I am But as last Saturday’s debate not making that up.) in Iowa illustrated, Sanders Paraphrasing CNN’s Jeff no longer appears content to Zeleny we are to believe that at be Clinton’s punching bag. almost 27 years old, this Yale- Granted, a slightly more feisty educated lawyer, a woman who Sanders is very unlikely to had worked for two anti-war derail the Clinton presidential candidates, who had just moved express, but it does remind us to Arkansas and whose husband, that there are gaping holes in Bill, was about to become the Clinton’s resume that go beyond state attorney general, walked our single-issue focus. into a Marine recruiting office Moreover, If you remember to ask to join? The contempt for back in late September a USA voters’ intelligence is palpable. Today/Suffolk poll asked for Please take time to read (for a single word that describes starters) the stories that relate each contender. The most frequent response for Clinton was directly to the 2016 elections on pages 1, 21, and 29. “liar/dishonest,” followed by “untrustworthy/fake.” Things are going to pick up momentum over the next two months. And with each month (sometimes with each week), Clinton You want to be prepared and we will do our best to help you.

36 November 2015 National Right to Life News www.NRLC.org Appeals Court rejects challenge to California law against assisting suicide By Dave Andrusko

On October 29 a three- San Diego Superior Court California’s law against assisted that had failed numerous times, justice state appeals court Judge Gregory Pollack who suicide on July 27. “You’re including in 2015. That session upheld a lower court decision dismissed a lawsuit challenging asking this court to make a new has not yet ended. that flatly rejected a challenge law,” Judge Pollack said at the Judge McDonald “said to California’s law against time. California courts have assisted suicide. The backdrop, of course, is consistently interpreted the “We believe prescribing that on October 5, California law to apply to doctors, and a lethal dose of drugs to a Gov. Jerry Brown signed the Legislature has never terminally ill patient with the legislation to legalize doctor- objected to those rulings, knowledge the patient may prescribed suicide. In the according to Bob Egelko of use it to end his or her life fine print is that the law does the San Francisco Chronicle. goes beyond the mere giving not take effect until 90 days “McDonald also said the right of advice and encouragement after adjournment of a special of privacy protects individuals and falls under the category of legislative session on health but not their doctors.” direct aiding and abetting,” said care. Jon Eisenberg, the attorney Justice Alex McDonald in the It was during that special for the three plaintiffs, said 3-0 ruling. session–called to address the he will ask the state Supreme The Fourth District Court state’s Medicaid budget–that Court for an immediate review. of Appeal’s decision upheld Justice Alex McDonald proponents resurrected a bill A Mother’s Death-defiant Vow: “You’re going to do beautiful things with these beautiful hands” From page 6 life, could echo a song of his whimsical creations, his unexpectedly pregnant again, a chance of having Myotubular flaming tongues, which declare fairy-like fingers dance joyfully geneticist encouraged them to Myopathy, but he has a 100 “When I am weak, then I am through mediums of clay have an amniocentesis because percent chance of being loved.” very strong,” never fails to woo or paper or string, such as Marie carried the gene that Today, Paley is a bright, my soul with wonder. pictured here with his...hmm could cause her baby to have happy, deeply-loved five-year- Our bruised-though- let’s call it a “bunny balloon MTM like his older brother, old living with Myotubular unbroken “reed” makes music anchor.” Reid. The geneticist suggested Myopathy. with his hands when he plays they could “keep their options Reflecting on the impact all the keyboard or instrumental Marie says, “He may be open.” of her children, especially Reid apps on his iPad, when he differently-abled from healthy Marie refused the and Paley, have made on her reaches out to express curiosity, kids, but he is full of constant amniocentesis and declared life, Marie said, “I’ve become trust, and affection. And when wonder and joy!” to all the people in that room, more grateful and full of awe of he makes visual music with When Marie was “Our son may have a 50 percent the simplest things.” www.NRLC.org National Right to Life News November 2015 37 “I don’t think Planned Parenthood should get a red cent from the taxpayer” says new House Speaker Paul Ryan From page 9 Those pro-lifers who knew like him. All of these a “swing district” but gavel over to new Speaker him best–Wisconsin Right to qualities have allowed mostly Democratic. Ryan, the most visible and Life–sang his praises. Here’s him to continue to be important position in the House what then-executive director re-elected with over To pro-lifers it is very of Representative remained in Barb Lyons wrote when he 60% of the vote in a reassuring that when retiring strongly pro-life hands. joined Romney: district that is, at best, Speaker Boehner handed the When Paul Ryan first ran for Congress in 1998, he was a very young 28 — boyish and eager. He came to a Wisconsin Right to Life interview with his clean-cut button- down shirt and fresh approach to public life. WRTL-PAC endorsed him for his fervent and sincere right-to- life convictions, but thought him perhaps too young to succeed. But succeed he did and Ryan has been over- achieving ever since. Who is Paul Ryan? Fervently pro-life, amiable, tons of character, principled, honest, charismatic, man of integrity, fantastic communicator, devoted husband and father. This is the man we met in 1998 and he has not changed, just grown in stature and maturity. People know Paul Ryan and 38 November 2015 National Right to Life News www.NRLC.org Fox 46 interviews mother whose chemical abortion was reversed From page 11 within 72 hours to negate the heartbeat was like oh scream for the first when he grows up,” impact of the first chemical my goodness that’s my time, that was the she said to Melugin. . baby, and he’s safe, and happiest moment, well “Being able to hold “It then became a waiting he’s alive and hopefully one of the happiest him and count this toes game to see if her pregnancy he’s healthy.” moments of my life and tickle his feet, it’s was saved,” Melugin explained. Fast forward the compared to the first just special because of Two days later when she went clock many months, time.” what happened and in for an ultrasound, Barnes got and at 10:28 p.m. Walker, the baby that my decision I almost her answer. on May 18th, 2015, almost never was, is made. I want to try to “So I looked to the Walker was born. He now 5 months old. share our story just to right and I saw the came a month early, let people know this is screen and the nurse but he was healthy. Barnes readily admits she available, I did almost said there’s your baby’s “He was perfect, and (and Walker) were lucky: make a mistake.” heartbeat,” Barnes he was a miracle,” “I was definitely given You can watch the story at said. “I was so happy, Barnes said. “When a second chance, and www.fox46charlotte.com/ I think my smile was they laid him on my [Walker] was too, who news/local-news/44018071- contagious. Seeing his chest and I heard him knows what he’ll be story. 3801 Lancaster: American Tragedy hits the box office From page 16

“wrung like a dishcloth, twirled exclaims over the man who was acceptable if the police officers alone? and squeezed,” until their bodies “allowed to butcher women, to had found five jars of preserved How can we comprehend are sucked, backbone last, into butcher babies, and nobody did 12-week-old baby feet or entire such loss, such death, such an a catheter. In the popular D&E a damn thing about it!” The bodies of 6-week-old babies? Is American tragedy? procedure, little feet (like those police officers still have yet to a human a human at any age, at 3801 Lancaster: American in Gosnell’s jars) are ripped off, get over what they saw firsthand every age? Tragedy wades into deeply too, along with little legs, little – will they ever? Should they? Did the age of these babies disturbing waters, taking its arms, little stomachs, and little We open up the cabinet, and when executed by Kermit captive audience along. And heads. Babies in every trimester we see five jars of feet. They Gosnell make the difference, yet, when we consider that of abortion are documented were small, but they were or the fact that their humanity all this happened in a typical trying to swim away from the defined. I mean, the toes, the was ignored, controlled, and American city – Philadelphia, instruments, mouths open in a ankle, the, the soles of the feet. taken from them? Do we mourn the City of Brotherly Love – horrified silent scream. You knew. the loss of these children only how can we think ourselves Is this Gosnell, or is this Once you saw the feet, you because we can see their frozen exempt? abortion? And do we really knew, you knew like I said bodies on film, or because they Find out where you can see want to answer? As one of the before, that this was different are children who were killed? American Tragedy. police officers on scene puts it: from any job we’ve ever Are we willing to face the “It’s just something you never handled. fact that children among us are Editor’s note. This appeared thought about. What is the Is this what the devaluing of killed at the rate of more than at liveactionnews.org and is abortion process?” human life, the dehumanization one million every year, more reprinted with permission. On the film, an official who of those smaller and less than 3,000 every day, more is clearly distraught over the developed than us leads to? than 125 every hour, more than nightmare at 3801 Lancaster Would it really have been more two every minute – in the U.S. www.NRLC.org National Right to Life News November 2015 39 Senate Democrat Fumbles, Calls Pregnancy Help Resolution “Political Football” From page 18

Rep. Vicky Hartzler has been “It’s in the thousands of lives center, giving their time to it’s not the least bit joined by 21 co-sponsors in the they save from the pain of keep the lights on, to answer divisive. [It] doesn’t House after introducing the bill abortion every year. The the phones, and to help young discuss anything that’s Nov. 3. millions of teachers, soldiers, women find the hope and the the least bit con- “The real measure of their nurses, friends and spouses courage to choose life. troversial.” significance isn’t in the whose lives and contributions “I encourage anyone words of a floor speech in the to our communities we might within the sound of my Editor’s note. This appeared , or in the never have known had it not voice to read Senate at pregnancyhelpnews.com. outcome of a vote,” Lee said of been for the unassuming heroes Resolution 312, and pregnancy help organizations. down at the local pregnancy they’ll discover that Support for physician-assisted suicide requires a blind eye to past, present, and future abuses From page 18 in Massachusetts which has a “surrogate” to admit it (because it weakens only about a third since been reintroduced) could direct doctor- your argument), you have to of patients in both Even more prescribed death take into consideration what the states were concerned shockingly, State courts for those unable to primary driving force behind about inadequate pain have ruled time and make decisions for assisted suicide is saying. control. again that if competent themselves, such Here’s what Barbara Coombs “It’s not as simple people have a right, as patients with an Lee, executive director of as pain,” Coombs Lee the Equal Protection advance Alzheimer’s. Compassion and Choices, said said. “Everyone gets Clause of the United Caplan subscribes to a belief in a story published in April in to identify their own States Constitution’s in a different kind of American USA Today. definition of suffering.” Fourteenth Amend- Exceptionalism. That is, Both Oregon and It is sad to see an old sparring ment requires that the forces that have sucked Washington found that partner knock himself out with incompetent people countless other categories participants had three his own arguments. But it is far be “given” the same of people into the assisted- major concerns: loss of sadder that Caplan’s support “right.” Under the suicide vortex in Europe will autonomy, diminishing for what he calls “physician- Massachusetts state be powerless here. We are ability to engage in the assisted dying” will help pave constitution, this safe, safe, safe from the human activities that make the way in the United States for would also be the condition. life enjoyable, and loss exactly what he insists cannot case. Consequently, But even if you don’t want of dignity. Meanwhile, happen here. 40 November 2015 National Right to Life News www.NRLC.org A pro-life conversation guide for the holidays From page 28 many people the humanity of no one ultimately regrets not (7) Be winsome or whether or not she has a the unborn child. For example, having an abortion, many, Pro-lifers must be kind, right to life. If a pro-choice the heart begins to beat about many (though of course not all) respectful, fair-minded and advocate says he is personally three weeks after conception, women now deeply regret their willing to listen and respond opposed to abortion but before many women even decision in favor of abortion. A thoughtfully to those who thinks it should remain legal, know they are pregnant. At 2011 meta-analysis published disagree. Don’t call someone ask why he is opposed; note about six weeks, brain waves in the prestigious British “pro-abortion” in conversation, that the reason for personal can be detected. By 20 weeks, Journal of Psychiatry—”the since it is usually inconsistent opposition (abortion kills a a wealth of evidence indicates largest quantitative estimate of with how he sees his position human being) is precisely that unborn children can mental health risks associated and can turn him off to the reason abortion should experience excruciating pain. with abortion available in the productive dialogue. Show not be permitted under law. The stunning complexity of world literature”—found an 81 compassion toward pregnant (I recommend the “tactical prenatal human development is percent increased risk of mental women facing difficult approach” developed by Greg “beyond any comprehension of health problems among women circumstances and women who Koukl and used in Ch. 9 of any existing mathematics today,” who have had abortions. have undergone abortions. Scott Klusendorf’s The Case says renowned medical imaging for Life.) expert and mathematician (6) Know about (8) Ask questions You probably won’t change Alexander Tsiaras. alternatives to abortion and Instead of relying just someone’s mind on the spot. compassionate support for on blunt assertions—and But you can have a friendly (5) Know how abortion can women putting the burden of proof conversation and give him or hurt women Both motherhood and on yourself—ask strategic her something to think about. The health risks of adoption are ethical, life- questions to poke holes in That should be your goal. abortion, both physical and affirming options. Some 3,000 someone’s position and get psychological, are very well pro-life pregnancy care centers him thinking. Make him defend This appeared on the documented. Familiarize across the United States stand his claims. For example, if blog of Minnesota Citizens yourself with a few facts. ready to help pregnant women he says a baby becomes a Concerned for Life (MCCL), For example, many studies in need. Many programs are person after birth, ask how National Right to Life’s state suggest that abortion can available to help women and a mere trip through the birth affiliate. Paul Stark is MCCL increase a woman’s risk of others deal with the aftermath canal, a shift in location, can communications associate. breast cancer. Moreover, while of abortion. change who/what someone is

Adoption: the hope for orphans around the world From page 4 and little hope here at home I have heard more than one Secondly, please don’t just I firmly believe that if for birth mothers who truly, for of you bemoan the fact that trumpet adoption as the solution you’ve ever uttered the phrase whatever reason, cannot parent adoption is harder than it to abortion and then forget to “adoption, not abortion” the children they carry. looks, and even mock National BE a part of that solution. If and you haven’t adopted or So as members of the right-to- Adoption Month as being too you have felt led to adopt – supported someone who is life community, my charge to you, positive. Just because you are do it. It’s on your heart for a adopting, you need to check if I may be so bold, is twofold. in the trenches with a child who reason, and whatever is holding yourself. First of all, be very mindful of doesn’t see you as the gift that you back can very likely be Adoption is everywhere these how you speak about adoption. you are to them, doesn’t mean surmounted. It really can. days, but it’s still not nearly Don’t act like it’s perfect – that adoption should be bad- If you’re not in a position to common enough in our world. nothing in life is. Don’t act like mouthed. adopt, please find someone who Somewhere between 147 it magically makes abortion go I know it’s hard. TRUST ME, is doing it and offer support, and 153 million children are away. It doesn’t. Don’t act I KNOW! It’s not wrong to let be it financial (adoption is orphans. As a movement, we are like it will instantly heal all of people know that sometimes expensive); emotional (okay, intimately aware that adoption is the broken places in anyone fairy tale endings take decades I probably mentioned this – absolutely a better alternative to involved. It won’t. and sometimes they don’t incorporating a small stranger, a crisis pregnancy than abortion. But please, also be mindful happen even then. It’s okay often an angry and/or sad one, But let’s not stop there. that you’re not speaking to be transparent. Just please into your family is the hardest Let’s become advocates for negatively of the most don’t, in your quest to “show the work you’ll likely ever do); or adoption – and for the children beautiful solution available to other side” of the glossy photo, even physical (offer to bring a who so desperately need it to children who need a family. I demean the very thing that made meal, babysit the other kids, or give them a family. And let’s am speaking, especially, to you a mom or a dad. Even if just give a really big hug when think – always – before we adoptive parents here. you’re having a hard day. it’s needed). speak on this important issue!