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Arizona Appeals 9th Circuit Ruling on 20-Week Abortion Law

Oct 2, 2013JerryAbortionAbortion, Life, Pro-life, Sanctity of Human Life

Last May the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals declared an Arizona law banning non-emergency abortions after the 20th week of pregnancy unconstitutional.

The court stated the law violates legal precedent barring the state from prohibiting abortion prior to viability. Many constitutional law experts do not believe the issue is as cut-and-dry as the Ninth Circuit made it out to be, and the ruling has now been appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Planned Parenthood Expansion of “Telemed” Could Affect Arkansas

Sep 27, 2013JerryAbortionAbortion, Life, Pro-life, Sanctity of Human Life

Planned Parenthood of the Heartland which serves Iowa, Arkansas, Nebraska, and Oklahoma has announced plans to expand “reproductive Health Services” via telemedicine at satellite Planned Parenthood centers around the state of Iowa.

“Telemedicine” is a relatively new concept in the field of medicine. It refers to medical checkups and procedures–including dispensing abortion-inducing drugs–carried out with a doctor via video conference rather than in person. A number of people colloquially refer to this as “webcam abortion.”

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Abortion, Public Funding On the Rise at Planned Parenthood

Sep 26, 2013JerryAbortion, Planned ParenthoodAbortion, Life, Planned Parenthood, Pro-life, Sanctity of Human Life

A new report is out showing the Planned Parenthood Federation of America did a record 333,964 abortions in the 2011-2012 fiscal year.

Those abortions generated an estimated $150 million of the organization’s $1 billon budget. That year, Planned Parenthood referred 2,300, pregnant women to adoption agencies. While Planned Parenthood’s abortion business is on the rise, some of their other services—like cancer screenings and contraceptives—are down.

In spite of efforts to defund Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest provider of abortions saw an up tick in public funding in 2011-2012. “Taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood reached a record of $542 million last year, almost half its $1 billion-plus budget,” said Jim Sedlak, vice president at the American Life League.

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