Planned Parenthood Facility Director Has Change of Heart: Joins Pro-Life Group
In a remarkable turn of events Abby Johnson, from Bryan, Texas, quit her job as director of the local Planned Parenthood clinic and joined Coalition for Life. In an interview with KBTX TV Johnson credits her conversion to witnessing an ultrasound of an abortion in progress. Worried by Planned Parenthood’s response to the recession (“Abortion is where the money is. Perform more of them.”), Johnson, who had been director of this facility for two years, and a worker there for several more, was motivated to change her ways by the sight of a young life being destroyed before her very eyes.
While the pro-life movement rejoices at this homecoming, Planned Parenthood has obtained a restraining order against Abby Johnson and Coalition for Life, alleging that, should Johnson remain unsilenced, irreparable harm would come to the clinic and its clients. This order does not prohibit either defendant from prayerfully protesting outside the facility.
See the Source: Ashlea Sigman, “Planned Parenthood Director Leaves, Has Change of Heart,” November 1, 2009, http://www.kbtx.com/home/headlines/68441827.html
Oklahoma Abortion Ban On Hold
A new law restricting abortions s been blocked by a lawsuit from the Center for Reproductive Rights, The Oklahoma law, passed by the legislature and signed into law by the governor, (read it at http://www.sos.state.ok.us/documents/Legislation/52nd/2009/iR/HB/1595.pdf) makes it a criminal offense to provide an abortion solely because the child’s sex was unwanted. Additionally, it requires abortion providers to fill out a thorough questionnaire to determine the reasons for the abortion, and to fill out and submit a detailed report on adverse side effects from the abortion. Finally, the woman seeking an abortion must be shown an ultrasound of the unborn child, with appropriate explanations of what she is seeing, before providing her with an abortion.
The inclusion of these separate elements have afforded the bill’s opponents an opportunity to claim that it violates the Oklahoma constitution, which does not allow for multiple regulations in a single law. So ruled Judge Twyla Mason Gray, the Oklahoma County district judge who blocked the law from taking effect on November l with a temporary restraining order. She has since denied the Stare of Oklahoma’s motion to dissolve the temporary restraining order. No further motion is expected until December 4, when a hearing on temporary injunction against the law is scheduled.
See the Source: Marie Price, “Abortion law court date to be in December,” The Journal Record, November 2, 2009, http://www.journalrecord.comarticle,cfm?recid=103970
Obama Presidency Heralds Return of Population Control to Kenya.
Editor’s Note: We received the following letter from a nurse in Kenya, who personally cared for victims of population control abuses, brought on at the behest of America’s anti-family foreign policy during the Clinton years. She believes that Obama’s foreign policy calls for more of the same.
We knew with Obama that this (population control) was going to start up again. In the newspaper article I enclose, called “Lower your birth rate, population experts say,” there was no mention of HIV/AIDS killing two million Kenyans in their prime of their childbearing years. And no mention of the fact that Kenya is Number Three (right after Nigeria) on Transparency International’s “Top Corruption Countries.” What I mean is that the root economic problems in Kenya are greed and corruption, not too many people.
As a nurse in Kenya since 1990, I cared for many family planning “horror stories” during the Clinton years. Now it starts again. Thank you for all you do for the pro-life cause.
— M.J., Kenya
