Membership slides as Girl Scouts controversy continues

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Who are Girl Scouts role models?

Girl Scouts have undergone what they describe as a "complete transformation" starting in 2003 in order to make their programs and image more relevant to a diverse population. 

However, that transformation may have accelerated rather than slowed the tide with defectors citing the growing liberalism. Membership has dropped over 20 percent in the last decade with no end in sight.

"In trying to be more relevant, they've gone too far the other way," said Cheryl Brown, former CEO of a Girl Scout council in Arkansas.

Pro-life organizations agree.  Over the past weeks, many national pro-life organizations called for a national “cookiecott” of Girl Scout cookies, claiming that the Girl Scouts USA promotes a pro-abortion ideology.  GSUSA emphatically denies it and especially any connection to Planned Parenthood.

However, as early as 2004, then-Girl Scout CEO Kathy Cloninger confirmed in a Today Show interview that Girl Scouts works with Planned Parenthood nationally. “We have relationships with our church communities, with YWCAs, and with Planned Parenthood organizations across the country, to bring information-based sex education programs to girls,” said Cloninger.

Cloninger reconfirmed as much in an interview at Harvard in 2007: “And I feel like we cannot be the nation’s expert on girl issues without dealing with how issues of sexuality affect the girls of this nation. We believe parents are part of the discussion, but girl scouting needs to be part of education and discussion as well.”

Politifact.com of Texas says it was asked to check the accuracy of the claim that GSUSA promotes “pro-abortion women as icons for our children to emulate.” It concluded that Girl Scouts does not simply because the Girls Scout guide does not specify “any woman’s activism per abortion as a reason for singling her out.”

That logic is nonsense.  Holding up women as role models while hiding their history as abortion leaders only makes the selections dishonest, not unbiased. 

American Life League—the nation’s oldest Catholic pro-life group—and other pro-life organizations did not get it wrong. Unfortunately, the bigger story may actually be worse.

ALL double-checked its own facts and found that, of the 11 women discussed with the PolitiFact writer, 80-89 percent are not just pro-abortion, but celebrated pro-abortion leaders.

GSUSA selections include Betty Friedan, the founder of NARAL Prochoice; Pauli Murray, a founding member of the radically pro-abortion NOW; Rosa Parks, a past member of Planned Parenthood’s Board of Advocates, and two women (Hillary Clinton and Dolores Huerta) who won the Margaret Sanger Award “for leadership, excellence, and outstanding contributions to the reproductive health and rights movement.”

When asked about the imbalance, Kelly Parisi, spokeswoman for the New York-based Girl Scouts, said, “We’re not trying to be balanced because we’re not trying to promote a political agenda. We don’t vet these women based on their political beliefs.” She continued, “We are a nonpartisan, nonpolitical organization.”

Some critics say that is just parsing words.

“The Girl Scouts’ ‘no position’ means it is perfectly happy to promote well-known abortion rights activists as role models like Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan, Geraldine Ferraro (and on and on) as long as that woman has done some other good deed alongside her advocacy for the right to kill innocent children in the womb,” says Christy Volanski, a former troop leader whose two ex-scout daughters founded the website SpeakNowGirlScouts.com.”

She continued, “It does not mean they refrain from engaging in these issues; it means they are totally ‘indifferent’ to the sanctity of life in the womb and the dignity of marriage. And I find that very sad.”

Parisi’s also stated that the Girl Scouts “believe [abortion] is a private matter for girls and their families.”  That is not only at odds with Cloninger, it does not address why local troops openly work with abortion advocates and providers.

According to the Catholic News Agency, “The Girl Scouts have filled their national leadership team and board of directors with unwavering ideologues whose careers, nonprofit work, and philanthropic choices reflect a hefty commitment to liberal causes—same-sex marriage, gay and lesbian rights, abortion rights, comprehensive sex education, and ‘girl power’ feminism.”

Parisi is an example: Prior to GSUSA, she was vice president of marketing and communications for pro-abortion Ms. Foundation for Women.  MFW lists “reproductive rights and health” as a top priority. While there, Parisi reportedly channeled her outrage “at women's inequality and gender injustice” that she saw daily and was proud of her work in MFW helping Planned Parenthood to attack Susan G. Komen.

GSUSA’s current $393,000 CEO, Anna Maria Chavez, who succeeded Cloninger in 2011, has long been associated with pro-abortion politicians and policymakers.

GSUSA’s tack to the social left also includes an “all inclusive” policy that contains “insistence on being a voice for all girls, regardless of their . . . sexual orientation, or gender identity.”

Deb Taft, chief development officer at GSUSA, serves on the national board of governors for the Human Rights Campaign, the biggest gay lobby in the nation. She chaired HRC’s 2010 and 2011 New England Gala Dinners.

But put aside GSUSA leadership associations— if GSUSA is neutral on abortion, how can it refuse “to allow pro-life advocacy to count towards badge work” but “reproductive health” advocacy is specified as meeting GSUSA leadership program objectives?

GSUSA is the largest member and therefore a $1.4 million financial supporter to WAGGGS, the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Guides   WAGGGS  wants “To rapidly improve the status of the girl child… especially on sexual and reproductive health and rights.”

Once again, GSUSA dismisses the association as meaningless.

The more one looks at the fundamental transformation of the Girl Scouts, the more it looks like another fundamental transformation that is not what most Americans bargained for.

'Radicalized’ Girls Scouts of America triggers national cookie boycott

The leadership of Girl Scouts of America, once a trusted purveyor of American values, has been moving to the left for over a decade. However, GSUSA’s local and national growing partnership with abortion industry leader Planned Parenthood has raised the ire of local and national pro-life leaders to the point that they are now calling for a boycott of the iconic Girl Scouts’ annual cookie sale.

“I am offended that the Girl Scouts honor pro-abortion activists like Wendy Davis and Kathleen Sebelius and hold them up as leaders to be emulated by our young women and girls,” said John Pisciotta, director of Pro-Life Waco, who is spearheading the effort.

Wendy Davis is the pink-shoed legislator in Texas who (unsuccessfully) filibustered new health regulations in Texas that would disallow abortions of preborn babies after 20 weeks and would also require doctors who perform abortions to have hospital admitting privileges within 30 miles—in case surgical abortions go wrong.

A National Journal poll shows that a plurality of Americans support a 20-week ban.

Kathleen Sebelius, HHS secretary and former governor of Kansas, is so extreme in promoting abortion that her own bishop of the Catholic Church took the extraordinary measure of banning her from receiving the Church’s highest sacrament, Holy Communion.

Radical social movements strive to infiltrate organizations trusted by the opposition and convert them into proxies for their own agenda. Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger did it with her “Negro Project” that used trusted black leaders like Mary McLeod Bethune, W. E. B. DuBois, and Rev. Adam Clayton Powell Jr. to promote contraception and abortion as bettering the plight of poor blacks. In reality, the Negro Project was, from the start, largely based on eugenics. It was indifferent to the needs of the black community and more concerned with unchecked black fertility.

Today, we have what some might call Planned Parenthood’s “Girl Scout Project.” From local councils to senior leadership, GSUSA is becoming heavily involved in promoting what Judie Brown, president of American Life League, calls the contraceptive mentality—sex without conscience or consequence.

The organization MyGirlScoutCouncil.com offers dozens of links to events hosted by or promoted by local councils connected to pro-abortion advocacy. For example, on page 41 of the GSUSA publication Your Voice Your World, girls are encouraged to explore such organizations as the Population Council, a group that works internationally to increase access to abortion.

Many pro-family and pro-life groups feel GSUSA has been radicalized by liberal progressives and can no longer be trusted with the shaping of young girls.

“The Girl Scouts were once a trusted organization dedicated to character building in young girls and women. Now, GSUSA is abusing that trust,” said Brown. “Most parents and grandparents remain painfully unaware that GSUSA has introduced so-called ‘family planning’ ideology in its curriculum and promotes groups like Planned Parenthood to our daughters and granddaughters.”

In 2011, in the Denver Catholic Register, Denver Auxiliary Bishop James D. Conley observed that, in the last year, a growing number of parents and youth ministers have shared concerns with him over the Girl Scouts’ alignment with groups advocating abortion.

Conley urged parents to review the GSUSA and World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts. He said the exercise “may be a sobering experience” when families see the organization’s approach to “sexuality, ‘choice,’ and reproductive issues.”

For example, GSUSA participated in a United Nations workshop in 2010 where the Planned Parenthood sex education pamphlet Happy, Healthy, and Hot was distributed. The pamphlet instructs young girls not to think of sex as “just about vaginal or anal intercourse.” Rather, the pamphlet says, “There is no right or wrong way to have sex. Just have fun, explore, and be yourself!”

Two former Girl Scouts, Tess and Sydney, left the organization after eight years and created the website Speak Now: Girl Scouts after becoming aware of GSUSA’s involvement in the Girls Only Workshop at the United Nations. They stated:

Leaving Girl Scouts was not a casual, easy, or convenient decision. Girl Scouts was a huge part of our lives that included a bond with our best friends. . . . While we recognized the many good things about Girl Scouts, we had to ask ourselves: Will we stand for our beliefs, for the dignity of life, the sanctity of marriage, modesty, purity? Or will we remain true to Girl Scouts? We cannot see any way to truly do both.

“Girl Scout USA (GSUSA) is quick to assure concerned members that the national level of the organization has no partnership with Planned Parenthood. But GSUSA fails to disclose further relevant information,” says Christy Volanski, the mother of the two former Girl Scouts, and a former Girl Scout member and troop leader herself.

Volanski points to GSUSA’s membership in the Coalition for Adolescent Girls, “a collaboration of about 40 organizations, in which GSUSA joins international abortion provider Marie Stopes and many other pro-abortion organizations to address global issues affecting girls. The coalition’s agenda specifically advocates for abortion-related care and comprehensive sex education for adolescent girls.”

Is GSUSA hiding its abortion agenda? A search of the GSUSA website for the word “abortion” yields no results. However, a search for “family planning” yields four pages of results.

In addition, the GSUSA curriculum promotes pro-abortion icons like Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, and Betty Friedan, founder of NARAL, as role models to be emulated by Girl Scouts.

So what about the cookies?

According to Volanski, the GSUSA will try to assure you that all the proceeds from cookie sales stay local to benefit girls in their community. In reality, GSUSA makes millions of dollars each year through licensing fees paid by the baker.  



Moreover, while the girls themselves keep, on average, approximately 15 percent of the purchase price, the local councils—that introduce girls to a pro-abortion worldview—keep the lion’s share of the profit from cookie sales.

Combining Planned Parenthood with the Girl Scouts may prove to make a bitter cookie.

Paul Rondeau is the executive director of American Life League.

What liberal media (really) fear about Gosnell trial

Over the past months, the horror perpetrated on women and babies at Women’s Medical Society in Philadelphia, and the sensational serial murder trial of its operator Kermit Gosnell, continue to be totally ignored by mainstream media. Are they afraid to cover the story?

This blackout is necessary because the liberal media knows that Gosnell is far from the exception and the abortion industry cannot survive scrutiny.

For the most part, only Fox News, local Philadelphia media and pro-life outlets like LifeNews, LifeSiteNews and JillStanek.com doggedly reported the gruesome testimony. This includes filth, unlicensed staff as young as 15 years old administering drugs or sonograms, Gosnell’s bizarre collection of severed baby parts, and drains clogged with baby remains and blood.

Even after complaints from his own staff and others, Gosnell was only busted in what authorities thought was a pill mill raid. Instead, they found a scene belonging in Saw or Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

The Gosnell House of Horrors was replete with dripping bloody bags and filthy worn-out medical equipment. It even had a deranged doctor
talking about his latest baby victimbeing “big enough to walk around with me or walk me to the bus stop.” More than 250 criminal counts. You could not write more sensational stuff for a horror movie, let alone the news.

Yet, day after day, even with the macabre testimony about midnight abortions, pretend doctors and the “beheading” of babies born alive, the reserved-for-media section of the courtroom remained almost vacant.

Columnist and political commentator Kirsten Powers, a Fox News contributor, was so appalled at the lack of coverage that she wrote a USA Today piece saying so. The firestorm that ensued, with liberals and feminists now claiming they had covered the story, had Powers writing another column:

So, the continued misleading claims that the trial has been widely covered are empirically false—as is Carmon’s claim on CNN Friday that the only reason anyone is talking about this is because of Fox News, always the left’s go-to scapegoat. Unless Fox News owns USA Today, I’m not sure what she is talking about. It’s remarkable how quickly a story of a trial about decapitated babies and maimed women was overshadowed by liberal rage at Fox News and the “conservative media” who allegedly were hypocrites because they hadn’t been covering it, either. (In fact, Fox News has run 11 stories over the course of the three-week trial, while The New York Times so far has run just one piece, on A-17, the day the trial began. 

One reason floated for the abysmal coverage is that pro-life activists might distort the story and damage “women’s access.” How far journalism has fallen from “the people have a right to know.” Would one insane pulmonary surgeon who implants toy balloons for lung transplants endanger the entire surgical profession? Of course not.

I suggest that the real reason for a pro-choice media is that shoddy practitioners, abortion clinics, and regulators seem commonplace across the nation. Gosnell alone had 46 lawsuits, but continued to practice in broad daylight.

Covering Gosnell prompts the inevitable question, “Are there others?” Just this month, Planned Parenthood of Delaware suspended surgical abortions when filthy conditions became public. A  former employee said it was like a “medical twilight zone,” with an abortion practitioner who ogled and slapped patients, improperly cleaned instruments and more Gosnell-like deficiencies.

In December 2012, police in Muskegon, Michigan, accidentally discovered “filthy” and unsanitary conditions throughout Robert Alexander’s clinic, including “blood on the floor and walls in multiple locations.” Once again, not health inspectors but police investigating a reported break-in, stumbled upon the mess.

Alexander’s “care” for his facility was only exceeded by his care for women. He “perforated the woman’s uterus so badly that it was hanging on by two blood vessels,” wrote the OB/GYN who had to save her. “The decapitated head of a fetus was in the woman’s abdomen and the large intestine had been grasped and pulled away from its blood supply and into the vagina. The woman required a hysterectomy, colonoscopy, and several units of blood to save her life.”

Other “women’s reproductive healthcare professionals,” as Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry like to say, served 24-year-old Tonya Reaves, who bled to death at a Planned Parenthood in Chicago. A kindergarten teacher, 29-year-old Jennifer Morbelli from New Rochelle, New York, died at the hands of late-term abortionist LeRoy Carhart, caught on video describing a dying preborn baby as like “meat in a slow cooker.”

In fact, medical emergencies at abortion clinics are common enough that Operation Rescue has documented 23 nationwide just since the first of the year. But, as Planned Parenthood alone runs 173 surgical abortion clinics, it is logical that hundreds, even thousands, go unreported.

Babies born alive after botched abortions appear to be routinely murdered, left to die or helped along as in the case against Gosnell. ACLJ reports the CDC WONDER database reveals “that 362 infant deaths (i.e., first born alive) as a result of an attempted abortion have been reported in the most recently available 10-year period, 2001-2010.” Testimony alleges that Gosnell alone committed hundreds of post-birth abortion murders before he was accidentally discovered.

Although required by law, abortions performed on young girls who may be sexually abused or exploited often go unreported, leaving the girl at continued risk and her parents without the knowledge of what happened.  Suspected pimps, sex traffickers, and underage girls are coached by abortion clinic workers on how to fill out forms in such a way as to avoid reporting laws.

“Law enforcement and child protection services (CPS) in Kalamazoo, Michigan have declined to investigate at least ten cases of possible child-rape unreported by a local abortion clinic,” reports Catholic Exchange. Anne Norton, a pro-life sidewalk counselor, claims that she “witnessed an 11-year-old girl taken into  the [Planned Parenthood of South Central Michigan] abortion clinic for a pregnancy test, where she tested positive. Norton interviewed the girl’s mother, collected witness statements, sworn affidavits, and other evidence but authorities were reluctant to investigate the sexual assault and bring to justice the perpetrator of this heinous crime.”

Planned Parenthood Golden Gate (now defunct but soon to re-open) proudly posted a letter on its website from a 17-year-old girl thankful for its services throughout her short life. She recounted how, when she was 11, her 17-year-old boyfriend raped her. She stated that she decided to start having consensual sex at age 14 and got her birth control pills at PPGG. The letter was taken down when people began to ask if PPGG had ever reported the obvious crime.

Today, abortion clinics are more legally savvy about such public boasts, but Live Action says, “We have investigated Planned Parenthood’s failure to report child sexual abuse to law enforcement and have caught them on camera failing to properly report over 14 times.”

A Kansas affiliate of Planned Parenthood and abortionist failed to report 166 potential cases of child rape. However, after the felony case was derailed by then-governor, now HHS secretary Kathleen Sebelius, the attorney general prosecuting the case, Phill Kline, instead found himself in court defending his actions against charges of  impropriety brought upon by  Planned Parenthood’s attorneys. According to Kline, the charges were to “disgorge me of evidence against Planned Parenthood by their attorneys.”

With the Gosnell revelations and others, finally some (GOP) lawmakers are demanding answers. A letter sent by House Energy and Commerce Committee to states reads, in part, “Now we’re discovering that other big abortion businesses refuse to give medical treatment to babies who survive botched abortions and we’re finding out the truth from former pro-choice nurses who called their own Gosnell-like clinics ‘ridiculously unsafe’ where ‘meat-market style of assembly-line abortions’ happen.”

Tennessee congresswoman Marsha Blackburn explained, “Oversight and enforcement are desperately needed so we can help stop these Gosnell scenarios from continuing.”

Unfortunately, while that sentiment may be well intentioned, it is also misguided. Regulations have not stopped and will not stop more Gosnell horrors.

Laws against late-term abortions, and even post-birth abortion murder, are ignored by both abortionists (and politically correct enforcement agencies). Laws meant to protect children by requiring reporting of suspected child abuse and rape are ignored. Laws requiring licensed medical professionals to administer drugs and do procedures are ignored. Heartbeat, fetal pain, and late-term abortion laws intended to protect at least some preborn children are ignored.

Fraud, personal injury, and coerced abortion lawsuits filed against Planned Parenthood and other abortionists play counterpoint to lawsuits filed by abortion lawyers to overturn parental consent and informed consent regulations.

In that USAToday column, Powers wrote, “You don’t have to oppose abortion rights to find late-term abortion abhorrent or to find the Gosnell trial eminently newsworthy. This is not about being “pro-choice” or “pro-life.” It’s about basic human rights.”

Regulating abortion does no more to solve the horror than trying to regulate terrorism. It just brings more attention to it. In the end, grievous violence against the preborn innocent and their mothers must simply be eliminated.

Basic human rights demand it.

Gosnell abortion horrors are only tip of the iceberg

America awaits the verdict in the murder trial of abortionist Kermit Gosnell. What is still not making the news is that the Gosnell house of horrors is merely an unintended glimpse into the daily reality of the abortion industry.
 
What Gosnell was doing is no different than what happens in Planned Parenthood, NARAL Pro–Choice and other abortion clinics over 1.2 million times every year. It stems from the same mindset found in any abortuary in any building in any small town community or big city.

He named his house of horrors Women’s Medical Society. It sounded so nice and clean, almost alike a Victorian society of gentile women. That is all the Pennsylvania authorities and “pro-choicers” wanted to see.

In reality, Gosnell happily worked in foul conditions and was cavalier about death to the point of pathology. But, the abortions for which he is on trial, the murders that he committed, in the end are like any abortion—inflicting death on the most innocent for personal profit.
Gosnell just did not bother with fancy window dressing. In that sense, his operations were more honest than most: Abortion is a filthy business, a white-tiled shiny abortion chamber does not change that.

Death, deception and exploitation of women and young girls are standard operating procedure in a field that is in the business of killing preborn human beings for money. Why would abortionists not tell a girl to just flush an untimely birth down the toilet?

To do that job and live with yourself, you must either adopt the belief that a preborn baby is only potential excrement or assume that certain human beings lack the right not to be murdered. And, you must convince your customers of the same.

This sociopathology is now showing up in our children. And why would it not after 40 years of teaching our children to disregard and devalue life in order to promote legalized abortions?

We see it when we read that a 19-year-old high school girl found it acceptable to simply flush her own baby down the toilet at school and go about her day as if nothing unusual just happened.

We see it when we read about a 14-year-old junior high girl who did exactly the same. Sex means nothing to these children, so why should a child?

Ron Taffel, in “The Wall of Silence: Reinventing Therapy to Reach the New Teens (Psychotherapy Networker, May/June 2001), relates this story:

“Margaret was …  proud of being the kind of with-it mother a girl could really talk to about what it was like to be young and exploring life… .  Margaret’s dreamy vision of mutual trust and openness exploded the day she came home unexpectedly to find her [14-year-old] daughter in the bathtub having sex with two boys. Shrieking, she got the boys dressed and out of the house. Then, she confronted her daughter.

Adding insult to injury, Lauren protested that the whole incident had been entirely innocent and her mother’s mean-spirited suspicions unwarranted. “You must have been imagining we were having sex because your parents were so strict and you were wild as a kid,” she said. “Besides, there were bubbles in the tub—how could you know what was really going on?”

For a brief moment, Margaret nearly fell for it—was it possible she had gotten it wrong? Then, furious anew, she asked, “What do you think I am—a damn fool?”

“Yes,” Lauren said flatly.

“We are indeed seeing a new kind of teenager embedded in a far more raw, intense, and pervasive youth culture than ever before, complete with new rules of adolescence. True, teens have always been sexual, but 12- and 13-year-old suburban kids didn’t used to get together for group oral and anal sex parties. Indeed, studies show that the age of the onset of sexuality has decreased since the ‘70s.”

That was over a decade ago and the trend has only accelerated. Why?

“Sexuality education is a lifelong process of acquiring information and forming attitudes, beliefs, and values,” states the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States. SIECUS is used as an accrediting organization for sex educators in K-12 schools.

What sort of attitudes, beliefs, and values does SIECUS and the sex education industry instill?               
Concerned Women for America quotes SIECUS: “The primary goal of SIECUS, according to [co-founder Dr. Mary S. Calderone], is to teach human sexuality ‘very broadly and deeply with awareness of the vital importance of infant and childhood sexuality.’” SIECUS believes a child’s sexuality should ‘be developed in the same way as the child’s inborn human capacity to talk or to walk, and that [the parents’] role should relate only [emphasis added] to teaching the child the appropriateness of privacy, place, and person—in a word, socialization.’”

Does “develop” sexuality and limiting the parents’ rights sound like anything to do with protecting children from sexualization and exploitation?

Calderone is the former medical director for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. The major funder for SIECUS is our government—a division of the National Institutes of Health. Some things never change.

We have allowed our government to use billions of our tax dollars over the decades to fund the very people who teach our children to believe that sex is essential and recreational at any age. A baby who results is not human, but a disease to be eradicated. Discard him in the toilet, trash can or medical bag. It makes no difference.

And then we are shocked when youngsters display the very attitude that allows the Gosnells and the Planned Parenthoods of the world to exist? Gosnell is only the tip of this cultural iceberg the USS Titanic is heading toward at full speed.

We contract with abortion providers like Planned Parenthood to go into our schools and promote grotesque beliefs to our children under the mantel of diversity and healthy sex choices. Obamacare earmarks $350 million tax dollars to fund “comprehensive” sex education, which instills an amoral view of sex in schoolchildren.

Perhaps we are all damn fools.

Note to Obama: God will not bless evil...or Planned Parenthood

Note to Obama: God will not bless evil...or Planned Parenthood.

Paul E. Rondeau

Planned Parenthood, the sex-industry chain that commits more abortions (over 330,000 baby deaths last year alone) than any other legalized murder-store in America, has defrauded the government, protected child rapists, coached pimps and sex traffickers how to get around the law, and continues to be one of the largest purveyors of pornographic sex ed in the world. Its Pennsyulvania affiliate even knew of, but did not report, the Gosnell abortion horrors, which included severed baby feet, infant beheadings, and drains clogged with fetal remains.

So, if you are the first sitting president in history to address Planned Parenthood at its national conference—an organization founded by Margaret Sanger, a racist and eugenics promoter of The Negro Project meant to eliminate “human weeds” like the poor, minorities, and undesirables in general—what do you say? If you are Barack Obama, you say, “Thank you, Planned Parenthood. God bless you.”

Obama turns back the clock

The Christian Post reported that Obama went on to claim, “After decades of progress, there’s still those who want to turn back the clock to policies more suited to the 1950s than the 21st century. And they’ve been involved in an orchestrated and historic effort to roll back basic rights when it comes to women’s health.”

Somehow, Obama forgot to mention the jaw-dropping testimony of Planned Parenthood representative Alisa LaPolt Snow. She testified against a bill in Florida that says a child who survives a late-term abortion and is born alive  should get medical attention. Snow maintained that even after birth, the child’s fate is a woman’s right to choose.

But, of course, as a state senator in Indiana, Obama himself voted four times against protecting babies born alive from botched abortions: They could be left to die on the table—a post-birth abortion.
Therefore, it is Obama who wants to turn back the clock to a time when an unwanted baby, like property, could be set adrift on the floating ice, left for wild animals to consume, or given into slavery. Or, just left to die.

Kids sex ed too shocking for adults

According to two newspapers, Planned Parenthood’s sex ed for children is too “shocking” and “graphic” even for adults. The New York Times and Washington Post both refused advertisements that depicted the cartoons intended for children as young as ten years of age—cartoons shown as part of a program paid for with taxpayer dollars.

PP starts by saturating children in kindergarten with the idea that sex anytime, anywhere, and with anyone is normal and desirable. PP teaches children to act like there is no limit or morality to sexual pleasure; the only danger is conceiving a child.

In his speech at PP’s annual conference on April 26, Obama’s praise overflowed: “You are somebody that women—young women, old women, women in between—count on for so many important services. And we are truly grateful to you.”

How is helping women kill their children, sexualizing children for profit, leaving newborn babies to die on a table, and facilitating child predators all something of pride to Obama—something for which anyone could be grateful?  That God would bless?

He calls these abominations choice, diversity, and comprehensive sex education.  It gets him votes.  Then, Obama slops hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars into the Planned Parenthood pigsty.
Jesus said, “Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.” (Mt 19:14)  So, just what vile act does Obama think God would bless?  Obama may be sincere in his delusion about the some imagined “good” of Planned Parenthood, but it is still a vile delusion.

“I want to know that you’ve also got a president who’s going to be right there with you, fighting every step of the way,” Obama told the Planned Parenthood crowd.

The tragedy is that we elected this man—twice.  Pray for Mr. Obama…and pray for America.

Hate industry: Fastest growing sector under Obama

The Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Brotherhood, and American Nazi Party are the old haters: They tend to get shot a lot, lose limbs, or end up in prison.  Those groups are lucky if they have a strip mall office in what used to be a failed shoe store.
 
The new hate industry has big shiny buildings, richly paid executives, lots of staff, fancy public relations firms, tons of positive media headlines, and hundreds of millions of dollars — sometimes billions — in annual revenue. They are invited into and appointed to offices on-high in government, schools, and law enforcement.

Today’s hate industry does not make itself conspicuous by burning crosses, conducting lynchings, or orchestrating bombings—at least not in the traditional sense. Today’s hate industry is based on labeling others as haters. That’s where the profit is, whether that means money, power, or (usually) both.

Hate-labeling is flourishing within the halls of government and the self-anointed media; it’s encouraged at the highest levels, by President Barack Obama himself.

The target is not violent people intent on hurting fellow citizens or blowing up the government, but instead those who are pro-family, pro-faith, pro-life — anyone who has pro-American values. Clever marketing schemes like “war on women,” the “one per-centers,” and not doing “your fair share” mask the true nature of the underlying hate campaign. Other hate cards include words like homophobic, tolerance, extreme, and ignorant.

Does Obama hate pre-Obama America?

When husband Barack was elected, Michelle Obama said she was proud of the United States for “the first time in my life.” Does her husband share that sentiment?

We know that Obama sat in the same church for 20 years, attending a congregation where the incendiary sermons of Rev. Jeremiah Wright — the pastor who officiated Obama’s wedding — preached black nationalism, liberation theology, and condemned the America that brought 9/11 itself with its own “terrorism.” As Wright recently said, “You don’t change who you are because of where you are.”

We also know that hate and fear-mongering at the top, like other excrement, flow downhill.

LifeSiteNews reports that “a series of reports from the Department of Homeland Security and West Point, as well as a training seminar for FBI agents, have depicted pro-life Christians as the most likely source of domestic terrorism. A number of pro-lifers believe the Obama administration is attempting to gather intelligence on the pro-life movement.”

Fox News learned that during an Army Reserve Equal Opportunity training brief on extremism, “the U.S. Army listed Evangelical Christianity and Catholicism as examples of religious extremism along with Al Qaeda and Hamas during a briefing with an Army Reserve unit based in Pennsylvania … The military also listed ‘Islamophobia’ as a form of religious extremism.”

Maybe that’s why Major Nidal Malik Hasan — a Muslim who had e-mail contacts with terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki — can kill 13 people at Ft. Hood while shouting “God is great” in Arabic, plead guilty, and still have the shooting classified only as workplace violence.

As insiders know in Washington, “Personnel is policy.” So what can Obama appointees tell us?
Eric Holder’s Department of Justice dropped voter intimidation charges against the New Black Panther Party because the victims were white. Chief Diversity Officer of the Federal Communications Commission, Mark Lloyd — a former George Soros employee — reportedly said that the “purpose of free speech is warped to protect global corporations and block rules that would promote democratic governance.”

Kevin Jennings, cofounder and executive director of the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) — an organization that fights “institutionalized heterosexism” and sponsored the shocking Fistgate scandal — was named as Obama’s safe school czar. Safe for homosexuality, but certainly not freedom of speech or religion.

Obama personally selected former Kansas governor Kathleen Sebelius to head up Health and Human Services, the epicenter of Obamacare. She is so militantly pro-abortion that her Catholic bishop banned her from receiving Holy Communion — an extraordinary action dictated by Canon 915 that is (too) rarely employed.

As governor, Sebelius’ administration shredded all key evidence in an ongoing felony case against Planned Parenthood and famous late-term abortionist George Tiller. The documents confirmed “164 cases of underage rape or statutory rape went unreported and [thus could not be] investigated by authorities.” With the evidence destroyed, both Sebelius and PP walked away with all charges dropped.

Progress? Progressive? To where?

This is not just politics. Sooner or later, the government and the people start to believe such propaganda — and act on it. Like tyrants, they justify their criminal actions as for the greater good.
The Southern Poverty Law Center, once a legitimate civil rights organization, now lists groups that oppose homosexual marriage — groups such as Family Research Council  and American Family Association — as hate groups alongside white nationalists, Neo-Nazis, and skinheads. SPLC scares hundreds of millions of dollars from “trembling liberals aghast at … lurid depictions of hate-sodden America,” reports Charlotte Allen at The Weekly Standard. SPLC headquarters is so lavish it was dubbed “Poverty Palace.” Recently, a gay rights gunman targeted FRC after finding it on the SPLC hate list.

Tammy Bruce, an unapologetic self-described lesbian feminist, issues this warning in her book The New Thought Police: “Our freedom to speak our minds is under attack … powerful special interest groups on the Left are mounting a withering assault on our rights in the name of ‘social equality.’”

Well, that certainly qualifies as “fundamentally transforming the United States of America.”

Go Ahead. Call Me Extreme

Go Ahead.  Call Me Extreme.

 A pro-lifer answers Democrat plan to label others ‘extreme.’

by

Johanna Dasteel

Representative Schumer revealed that the Democratic Caucus plans to label the opposition and their Tea Party ideas as extreme.  I know what it is like to be on the receiving end of that political denigration. 

My advocacy for human personhood amendments is oft times labeled extreme for this day and age even by pro-lifers.  Such amendments are simple enough:  they reconcile an observable reality with the language of our laws.  Namely, that a human being is a person, and our laws are written to protect persons. 

Though I was initially disappointed at being categorized as an extremist, as I continued to think about the matter I gradually gained a measure of satisfaction from the label.  Perhaps the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists. 

Let me repeat that: Perhaps our nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

I can’t claim to be clairvoyant, but I think it’s safe to assume that you may not agree with me. Would it matter if I told you that those words are not original to me?

You see those words are not mine, but are the words of the great Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as he wrote in his Letter from a Birmingham Jail. 

Dr. King too was called an extremist and he responded, again, I quote: “But though I was initially disappointed at being categorized as an extremist, as I continued to think about the matter I gradually gained a measure of satisfaction from the label.” He said, “perhaps… the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.”

Dr. King wasn’t coming up with a new idea, rather he was going back to our country’s origins, to the idea enumerated in our Declaration of Independence that all people are created equal and have the right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. 

Pro-lifers are accustomed to being called extreme.  But what is liberty and the pursuit of happiness without the right to life? Protecting all members of our human species as persons is just going back to common sense.  What Dr. King might call creative extremism.

The Schumers, Pelosis, and Reids of the world love to hype straw man doomsday scenarios in which recognizing the rights of preborn people will lead to the penalizing and jailing of pregnant mothers for mundane or everyday behavior such as eating junk food or playing sports. 

They even go so far as to argue that the government would start harassing mourning mothers after they have suffered the loss of a child through miscarriage. Now the hypocrisy in that alone should confound you.  What is there to mourn and why would it be so distasteful to question the mother if we cannot admit that she is a mother in the first place? 

In Colorado, where I’m from, before the decriminalization of abortion, the state had a long history of being a pro-life state and NOT ONCE was any mother prosecuted or investigated after a miscarriage.

A personhood amendment solely states that no member of our species shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law. 

The hurlers of the extremist invective shout that birth control, IVF and human embryonic stem cell research is threatened by protecting a preborn human being’s right to life.  But unless these are life-threatening instead of life-saving practices, is there reason to claim that constitutionally recognizing human beings as persons threatens them?   More straw men blown over by logic.

They will never risk admitting that all human beings should not be recognized as equal persons; to do so would betray the lies on which they base their own advocacy.  They will instead trot out the tired and disproven claims of decades ago that acknowledging preborn babies are people will force mothers to the back-alleys where they will die along with their children.

Julie Kay, International Planned Parenthood Federation attorney and acolyte of “admitting babies are people is extreme”theory, described the country of Ireland as “the jewel in the crown of the pro-life movement.” 

She said this because Ireland is a pro-life nation that protects the rights of the preborn child as equal to that of his or her mother.  Ireland treats abortion as a criminal action.

If we are to believe what Planned Parenthood and their Democratic Caucus claim__that treating preborn children as equal citizens will criminalize women’s behaviors when they are pregnant, that there will be more back-alley abortions, that women will be defending themselves in frivolous lawsuits and some even will die, we would also have to believe that it is – right now - doomsday in Ireland – that, according to the logic of the Cecile Richards and Harry Reids of the world, it must be doomsday in Ireland.

You would think that.

But you would be wrong.

Ireland has no back-alley abortions.  Ireland is abortion-free.

UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund – UNICEF reports Ireland to have the lowest maternal mortality rate in the world.  Let me put that another way: women not dying from abortion being illegal in Ireland!

Our nation careens toward bankruptcy but Pelosi and Schumer strategize to label even trivial cost cutting to a multitrillion debt as extreme.  President Obama excuses abortion by saying that knowing when life begins is above his pay grade.  Harry Reid declares he would shut down the government before defunding Planned Parenthood.

The only thing that stands in our way of restoring the rights of the preborn and eliminating abortion is fear.  Fear that is unfounded.  Ireland is a testament to that fact. 

We don’t need to be the victims of Pelosi, Schumer, Reid, or Planned Parenthood’s extreme propaganda. 

Go ahead.  Call me extreme.  Coming from you, I will wear it as a badge of honor.

(Johanna Dasteel is senior congressional liaison at American Life League.)