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More from Live Action: Sex selection abortions in New York City

Another sting. This time at the big PP abortion mill on Bleeker Street.

 

Here is the full, unedited video. 71 minutes long.

PP NYC full footage.

Gripping Testimony: Former abortionist Levatino on fetal pain and "life of the mother" situations

Congressional testimony of Dr. Anthony Levatino, a former abortionist in upstate NY, and now pro-life advocate.

Horrifying and disturbing, but needs to be read (There's also a video of his testimony embedded).

Below the link we are only excerpting his testimony on situations where a pregnancy is threatening the life of the mother. You need to hit the link for the testimony on fetal pain during an abortion.

The most heartrending abortion testimony you’ll ever hear, from a former abortionist

... I want to make a comment on the claims that I often hear that we must keep abortion legal in order to save women’s lives, or prevent grave physical health damage, in cases of acute conditions that can and do arise in pregnancy. Albany Medical Center, where I worked for over seven years, is a tertiary referral center that accepts patients with life-threatening conditions related to or caused by pregnancy. I personally treated hundreds of women with such conditions in my tenure there. There are several conditions that can arise or worsen, typically during the late second or third trimester of pregnancy, that require immediate care. In many of those cases, ending or “terminating” the pregnancy, if you prefer, can be life saving, but “terminating a pregnancy” does not necessarily mean “abortion.” I maintain that abortion is seldom if ever a useful intervention in these cases.

Here is why: Before a Suction D&E procedure can be performed, the cervix must first be sufficiently dilated. In my practice, this was accomplished with serial placement of laminaria. Laminaria is a type of sterilized seaweed that absorbs water over several hours and swells to several times its original diameter. Multiple placements of several laminaria at a time are absolutely required prior to attempting a suction D&E. In the mid-second trimester, this requires approximately 36 hours to accomplish. If one were to use the alternate method defined in federal law as Partial-Birth Abortion (but now generally banned), this process requires three days, as explained by Dr. Martin Haskell in his 1992 paper that first described this type of abortion.

In cases where a pregnancy places a woman in danger of death or grave physical injury, a doctor more often than not doesn’t have 36 hours, much less 72 hours, to resolve the problem. Let me illustrate with a real-life case that I managed while at the Albany Medical Center. A patient arrived one night at 28 weeks gestation with severe pre-eclampsia or toxemia. Her blood pressure on admission was 220/160. A normal blood pressure is approximately 120/80. This patient’s pregnancy was a threat to her life and the life of her unborn child. She could very well be minutes or hours away from a major stroke. This case was managed successfully by rapidly stabilizing the patient’s blood pressure and “terminating” her pregnancy by Cesarean section. She and her baby did well. This is a typical case in the world of high-risk obstetrics. In most such cases, any attempt to perform an abortion “to save the mother’s life” would entail undue and dangerous delay in providing appropriate, truly life-saving care. During my time at Albany Medical Center I managed hundreds of such cases by “terminating” pregnancies to save mother’s lives. In all those cases, the number of unborn children that I had to deliberately kill was zero.

The Live Action expose on Planned Parenthood support for sex selection abortions

Here's the sting video in Texas. Note it's only part 1, so evidently more to follow. Below the video is a link to the full 56 minutes of film, with no editing. You can cut and paste the link into your browser.

 

 

http://youtu.be/3SlHItqTekw

Another abortion survivor speaking out

Claire Culwell, who survived because the abortionist only located her twin brother.

Hit the link for the whole story and a picture of the young lady.

Twin Who Survived Abortion Shares Her Amazing Story

“My birth mother was 13 years old at the time she became pregnant with me. Her mother took her straight to an abortion clinic where she had a surgical abortion. After thinking she had “fixed the problem,” a few weeks later she realized her belly was still growing. Her mother took her back to the abortion clinic where she learned that she had been pregnant with twins,” Culwell recalls. “One was aborted; one survived.”

Culwell says she can’t imagine not sharing her story with others.

“My life is a miracle and I would be selfish to keep this gift of life to myself,” she says. “I want to tell everyone what a gift I and even they have been given!! I want to encourage them to seek alternatives to abortion because I would never want any woman/man to go through the grief and the pain that my birth mother went through simply because she didn’t know she had any other option.”

“I also want to be a vessel to offer God’s forgiveness to the men and women who have previously had abortions. I know healing is possible and I have been given the gift of surviving an abortion so that I can tell these men and women that they are forgiven…coming from an aborted child, I hope they know the power of forgiveness and healing through meeting me,” Culwell continues.

“My life is a testimony that there are wonderful alternatives to abortion (such as adoption in my case) and an accidental/unwanted child still deserves life…even a child with disabilities,” she says. “I was born 2 1/2 months early, weighed 3 lbs 2 oz, had dislocated hips and club feet. I had to wear casts on my feet, a harness and eventually a body cast. The abortion still affects me today.”

That said, Culwell makes it clear, “Life is still worth it!”

Pro-abortion lobby goes BERSERK after Astorino's veto of anti-free speech clinic bill

Wow. Of course this is the sort of drivel you often hear from pro-abortion demonstrators outside of abortion mills, but you'd think their lobbyists would be more circumspect about putting a rant like this online.

Of course, their "market" is not normal people. The lobby constantly needs to raise money so they put out stuff like this for the benefit of financial supporters for whom abortion is akin to a sacrament.

Astorino Supports Terrorizing Women – Vetoes Clinic Access Bill

Of interest to Catholics: Cardinal Burke writes book on the Eucharist

COUNTY EXECUTIVE VETOES CLINIC BILL!

From the office of the County Executive, Rob Astorino:

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:  May 18, 2012 

ASTORINO VETOES CLINIC ACCESS LAW CALLING IT LEGALLY FLAWED

Says access to reproductive health facilities is already well protected by state and federal laws

 

Saying the bill is legally flawed and unnecessary, County Executive Robert P. Astorino today vetoed a bill that purports to guarantee women access to certain reproductive health clinics.

“The legislation is unnecessary, unfair and unconstitutional on its face, all of which put the public at risk,” said Astorino in his message to the Board of Legislators. “My veto is a principled attempt to spare our residents of these harmful consequences.”

            The legislators approved the bill on May 7 by a 10-7 vote. It was opposed by a coalition of pro-life and pro-choice legislators. It would take 12 votes to override the veto.

            Astorino gave the following reasons for his veto:

• The legislators who supported the bill and their supporters had failed to provide any evidence that the law was needed. In fact, he said, existing federal and state statutes already restrict protesters outside clinics and there was no evidence that these laws were insufficient or not being enforced.
• The law’s enactment would violate the First Amendment’s guarantees and result in an “unacceptable potential to chill freedom of speech and assembly.”
• The law subjects law-abiding citizens to frivolous lawsuits and exposes them to unreimbursable legal fees.
• The bill itself is legally flawed and vague and could be costly for the county to defend in legal proceedings.

“At a time when your Honorable Board has failed to act on $80 million in pending and much needed capital projects and has failed to act on 37 pending appointments to various Boards and Commissions why is so much time being expended on a matter already addressed by two separate levels of government?” Astorino asked rhetorically.      

Chilean study shows making abortion illegal does not raise maternal mortality rate

This was a large scientific study with 50 years of data.

The research entitled “Women’s Education Level, Maternal Health Facilities, Abortion Legislation and Maternal Deaths: a Natural Experiment in Chile from 1957 to 2007” was conducted on behalf of the Chilean Maternal Mortality Research Initiative (CMMRI) and published in the journal PLoS ONE.

During the fifty-year study period, the overall Maternal Mortality Ratio or MMR (the number of maternal deaths related to childbearing divided by the number of live births) dramatically declined by 93.8 per cent, from 270.7 to 18.2 deaths per 100,000 live births between 1957 and 2007, making Chile a paragon for maternal health in other countries. “In fact, during 2008, the overall MMR declined again, to 16.5 per 100,000 live births, positioning Chile as the country with the second lowest MMR in the American continent after Canada and with at least two points lower MMR than the United States” said Koch.
 
One of the most significant findings is that, contrary to widely held assumptions, making abortion illegal did not result in an increase in maternal mortality. In fact, after abortion was made illegal in 1989, the MMR continued to decrease from 41.3 to 12.7 per 100,000 live births (69.2 per cent reduction). “Definitively, the legal prohibition of abortion is unrelated to overall maternal mortality rates,” emphasised Koch.
 
The variables affecting this decrease included the predictable factors of delivery by skilled attendants, complementary nutrition for pregnant women and their children in the primary care clinics and schools, clean facilities, and fertility. But the most important factor and the one that increased the effect of all others was the educational level of women. For every additional year of maternal education there was a corresponding decrease in the MMR of 29.3 per 100,000 live births.

There's a good deal more to this article; well worth hitting the link and reading it entirely.

 

Fr. Norman Weslin

We just received this notification, from Tom Dixon, one of the attorneys who defended the "Notre Dame 88". Please pass along to the many people  who knew Father.

Father Norman Weslin passed away last evening very peacefully.  He spent the last few years of his earthly life bringing joy to the residents and staff of Cherry Hill Haven, a senior living facility in Traverse City, Michigan owned and run by my wife, Patti and her incredible staff, headed by Administrator Evon Ryan.  

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Around the time of the ND 88 arrests, Father was diagnosed with early stage Alzheimers.  As the disease progressed and he required placement, the Holy Spirit's divine setups kept him closely in our lives.  Even after his placement, we were able to frequently pray the Holy Rosary outside the Planned Parenthood in Traverse City, and to arrange a trip for him to be with his friends in the Washington D.C. area for a week long prayer vigil.  He also received visitors from all parts of the country... many Lambs from the Omaha area, friends from Detroit, the Upper Peninsula, and throughout the country. 

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In the last weeks of his earthly life, Father was filled with excitement and anticipation of his reunion with the Blessed Mother, his beloved wife Mary Lou, and all of his family and friends who went before him, as they accompany him into the eternal presence of Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.  Friends from Omaha were with him at his death, and a prayer community in Traverse City kept almost constant vigil.  Even in retirement and battling the effects of Alzheimers, Father Weslin touched many lives, brought many people to Christ, and spread the joy of his faith with contagion.  

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I think Dr. Charlie Rice has said it best, "while we have been praying for him, we will soon start praying to him."  

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Father Weslin increased my faith and deepened my devotion to the Blessed Mother.  Each day, when I pray the Holy Rosary, I now include at the end of each mystery "Our Lady of Guadalupe pray for us" and the "Ave Maria"  both included in his daily devotion.  And, I  now pray the Memorare as I begin my daily travels.  His legacy in my life is much greater than these things, but he will always be with me as I continue in these devotions.

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May God bless you all, and may we all celebrate having been bestowed the grace of being in the presence of Father Norman Weslin, and pray for our own reunion with him.

VERY important: Call and email Rob Astorino re: vetoing the anti-free speech clinic access bill

It is important that we contact Westchester County exec. Rob Astorino asking him to veto the anti-free speech bill that profiles and singles out prolife speech.

We need to show, and he needs to show, that this veto is widely supported. You can bet the pro-abortion side is calling and sending emails.

Phone number - 914-995-2127.

Email - CE@westchestergov.com