Life Issues

Research shows a vast majority of women who have abortions, do so under pressure, coercion or by force.  But not all succumb to the pressure.  Anthony Edwards is a star with the Minnesota Timberwolves basketball team.  He’s facing considerable backlash after messages between him and Ayesha Howard, his now ex-girlfriend, were made public.  Last year she notified Edwards she was pregnant.  His response – “Ok lol.  Get da abortion lol.”  But she refused to kill her unborn child.  Ayesha asked if he hated her for not having an abortion and his response was, “[Yes], because you bringing a child in the world that’s gone be without a father.”  It appears putting two sentences together isn’t a requirement for the NBA.  Anthony, be a man and take responsibility for your daughter.

I knew this was coming, and probably, so did you.  Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton arrested Maria Rojas, an illegal abortionist.  She illegally owned and operated a network of abortion facilities in Northwest Houston.  Rojas was charged with illegally committing abortions, a second-degree felony.  She was also charged with practicing medicine without a license.  Attorney General Paxton said, “In Texas, life is sacred.  I will always do everything in my power to protect the unborn…[and] ensure that unlicensed individuals endangering the lives of women…are fully prosecuted.”  Paxton added, “Texas law is clear and we will hold those who violate it accountable.”  God bless all those who boldly stand for life and defend it.  I’ll keep you posted on any future developments.

This is truly a miraculous victory.  Planned Parenthood’s flagship abortion mill is in the heart of Manhattan, New York.  For decades it was named after Planned Parenthood’s racist founder, Margaret Sanger.  It’s located in one of the most proabortion states, in one of the most proabortion cities of our nation.  Planned Parenthood announced the abortion mill will permanently close due to financial problems.  They’ve put the building on the market and are asking thirty-nine million dollars.  Those funds are planned to be used in minority neighborhoods of the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens.  This continues their agenda of targeting minority neighborhoods.  If prayers can close an abortion mill in such a proabortion environment, your prayers can close abortion mills anywhere.  Please pray!

Here’s a BIG praise report.  The final existing abortion mill in Louisville, Kentucky has been demolished.  It first opened in nineteen eighty-one and is responsible for killing thousands of babies.  That is until the Dobbs decision overturned Roe v Wade.  The demolition of Kentucky’s last abortion mill is a significant moment in the battle to end abortion in that state.  Their tireless effort to protect the state’s unborn babies and their parents from the horrors of abortion finally became a reality.  Kentucky’s new pro-life legislation has ended nearly every abortion in the state.  We give thanks to God for this amazing development.  And we thank the tireless efforts of Kentucky’s pro-life leaders and their team of countless volunteers who didn’t give up until all the babies were saved.

Electing a pro-life president pays huge dividends!  His first week in office President Trump reversed a pro-abortion policy by Biden.  Now the Department of the Navy officially announced they will no longer provide up to twenty-one days of administrative leave and travel stipends – paid by you the taxpayer – for both an active or reserve service member or their spouse to have an abortion.  The Coast Guard followed suit.  Both were in response to the Department of Defense’s decision to be compatible with Trump’s Executive Order.  There are many ways a pro-life president can save the lives of America’s unborn babies.  In addition, policies set in motion by President Trump are saving many, many lives of unborn babies around the world.  Your pro-life vote matters.

Here’s an American pro-life hero.  Mary is ninety-two years old, but she faithfully stands before a Florida abortion mill twice a week to pray and offer women alternatives to killing their unborn babies.  Mary is credited with a sharp sense of humor but is all business when it comes to defending life.  God lit a passion in Mary’s heart when she first learned what abortion was back in nineteen-eighty-eight.  The abortion center used to open at five in the morning, and guess who was there at four-thirty?  Mary!  Our nation’s full of unsung heroes like Mary.  They give generously of their time and resources yet ask for nothing in return.  Please prayerfully consider being a faithful witness in front of abortion centers.  There’s no better gift than helping to save lives.

Are the advocates of abortion extreme and radical?  I’ll report.  You decide.  An Ohio law required Planned Parenthood and other abortion mills treat aborted babies’ bodies with dignity by burying or cremating the remains instead of dumping them into the landfill.  Hamilton County Judge Alison Hatheway ruled the law is unconstitutional.  Judge Hatheway claimed the law providing dignity for the aborted babies made it more difficult to sell abortions.  She wrote, “It would severely impede access to abortion resulting in delayed or denied health care.”  First, abortion isn’t healthcare.  It’s the intentional and violent killing of innocent babies.  Second, abortion activists are so radical they don’t even want the babies to be treated with the dignity that they deserve instead of throwing them into the landfill.

Marla Cardamone was just eighteen and the mother of a toddler when she became pregnant.  She planned to place her baby for adoption until a social worker advised her to have an abortion.  Her meds for depression, said the social worker, might cause a disability with the baby.  She neglected to tell her there was an over ninety percent chance of a healthy child.  Marla had a sonogram showing the baby was healthy but she wasn’t told the results.  The late-term abortion was botched and she died from a massive infection.  Legal abortion was deadly abortion.  Marla’s mother had to sue to get answers.  And she wondered why there was no support or words of sympathy from feminists and the abortion industry.  It’s abortion at all cost and Marla and her mother paid dearly.

It’s often said abortionists are the bottom feeders of the medical community.  Abortionist Candace Cooley has been in and out of trouble for several years.  She ignored Florida’s twenty-four-hour waiting period on nearly two hundred occasions.  Cooley has been convicted of driving under the influence three separate times.  Florida’s Department of Health filed a complaint saying she was “unable to practice medicine with reasonable skill and safety to patients” because of her abuse of alcohol.  Her license to practice medicine was revoked in New York and put on probation for five years in Colorado.  It’s said drug and alcohol abuse is rampant among abortionists and it’s no wonder.  Being a hired killer of innocent preborn children gets under the skin of even the most heartless individuals.

Being pro-life sometimes demands courage in the line of fire.  One day after a radical abortion-until-birth amendment passed in New York, a plan of attack against pro-life pregnancy centers began.  Governor Kathy Hochul and her Attorney General, Letitia James launched the new Empire State Freedom Initiative.  Its goal is “identify any possible threats” to abortion rights.  This may include pro-life medical centers offering alternatives to abortion.  While under this menacing threat, CompassCare, a network of pro-life medical offices didn’t pull back.  They did the opposite by opening two new medical offices in two weeks’ time – one in Brooklyn and The Bronx.  Please pray for these brave pro-lifers who face aggressive opposition that fears the truth about abortion.