….other than Happy Thanksgiving ! And, there is much to be thankful for !

Shawn Carney, founder of 40 Days for Life, is reporting that 850 babies were saved during the most recent campaign. Data is still coming in, but the count since the movement started is now over 20,000 babies saved when mothers listened to sidewalk counselors and decided life for their child. And, another abortion worker has quit and converted to the pro-life position that every pregnant woman deserves a real choice…not just an abortion.

LifeFirst is taking a break from meetings in November and December, but Teresa Stark has exciting plans which will resume in January. In the meantime, the associated pregnancy resource centers are busily providing all the help needed by pregnant women in distress so they can have a healthy baby.

There is also exciting news out of the Abortion Survivors Network. An ad will appear on Fox News next week which is designed to draw attention to abortion survivors and force listeners to realize that the unborn are real people.

In the ad Amy Miles says, “As somebody who survived an abortion, I want to tell the Supreme Court that my life mattered.” The Supreme Court will soon hear oral arguments in the Mississippi case referred to as Dobbs (see previous posts). The Court will also hear the case concerning the Texas fetal heartbeat law. The Abortion Survivors Network has filed an amicus brief in the Dobbs case.

Melissa Ohden provided a statement to Fox News in which she said, “Isn’t something wrong in our society when Amy, myself and other abortion survivors are only alive today because an abortion failed to take our lives, and our government failed to protect us?”

Ohden has also said that abortion supporters “fail to convince me how I have a right to an abortion but I was denied the basic right to live when I was aborted and accidentally born alive. I am more than a choice.” Read the story:

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/abortion-survivor-ad-dobbs

Melissa Ohden is a very busy lady, indeed ! She will be with other pro-life leaders in Washington on December 1 for a rally before the Supreme Court building. She is writing a book on abortion survivors to be published in 2022, and she leaves us with a teaser about a “ground-breaking event about abortion survivors coming in early December.” https://abortionsurvivors.org/

National Review (November 22, 2021) published an article titled “Science Has Strengthened the Pro-Life Case.” The author, Tara Sander Lee (PhD), writes that, “Fifty years ago science had firmly established the dynamics of developing human life in the womb,” and that “science already knew about the humanity of the unborn child.” She goes on to explain that even 50 years ago it had been demonstrated that a new life began at conception, that the fertilized egg had all the DNA it would ever have to develop into a baby and then an adult.

She further explains that, in 1973, when Roe v Wade was decided, biologists had already accepted a standard (the Carnegie Stages) for development through the first 8 weeks of human life. Stage 1a marks the beginning of human life with the first stage of fertilization. Stage 23 concludes in the 8th week when the child has developed 90% of his or her bodily structures. Beyond that time, further development is very rapid.

She goes on to discuss the fascinating progress made with ultrasound diagnosis of condition in the developing child, use of anesthesia on the patient, and surgeries in the womb. She notes how her students’ eyes glazed over during such discussions until the moment when she showed them a modern ultrasound image of the face of a child in the womb. To read the article and see such an ultrasound image:

https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/11/science-has-strengthened-the-pro-life-case/

In other news, it is being reported that the annual rate of abortions in the US has risen about 1-2% yearly since a low point in 2017, and that 18% of all pregnancies in the US end in abortion.

Pro-Life advocates of every demographic, Catholics and Protestants, Blacks, and Whites, Democrats and Republicans, will gather in a few days at a church in Mississippi to pray that the Supreme Court will respect the sanctity of human life. A representative of the Abortion Survivors Network will attend to assert that he survived an abortion, he deserved to live, and that his life matters.

One hundred lawmakers in Congress are introducing a bill to protect the rights of conscience of healthcare providers who do not want to participate in abortions. The HHS under the Biden administration has been acting to remove protection from prosecution of healthcare providers who object to participating in abortions as a matter of conscience.

Biden’s policies have attempted to reverse every aspect of protections implemented under the Trump administration, both Domestically and internationally. It has also become a matter of great concern that Biden’s current budget proposal does not contain the Hyde Amendment which, since 1976, has prevented the use of taxpayer money to be used to provide abortions on request. If the budget becomes law without the Hyde Amendment, every woman in Medicaid and other government health care plans would have access to abortions paid for by the US Treasury.

A new study released by the Charlotte Lozier Institute reveals that chemical abortions (eg the use of abortion pills) is causing an alarming increase in the rate of emergency room visits after taking the pills. The technique has become increasingly popular in recent years and is a favorite of Planned Parenthood. In 2020, the abortion pills were used in 50% of US abortions.

The authors report that ER visits after taking the pills rose by 507% between 2002 and 2015. At the same time, the rate of ER visits following surgical abortions rose 315%. Planned Parenthood maintains a hotline so that women can call in for a prescription and have the pills delivered the next day. Texas and Louisiana passed state laws requiring abortion providers to have hospital privileges due to the frequency of such complications, but federal courts have prevented the laws from taking place. The FDA is considering a rule requiring prescription for the abortion pills to be in person. It is not clear that such a rule would prevent complications, or that doctors will be held accountable by licensing agencies for the morbidity and mortality suffered by their patients.

In a few other blurbs (with apologies for not providing details): “Human Rights Begin in the Womb”; Pro-Abortion advocates vandalize a memorial to aborted babies and yell obscenities at the pro-life people who made it; the constitution dictates that regulation of abortion should be left to the states; abortion advocates will not answer when asked if abortion takes a human life; Oklahoma Supreme Court blocks 3 anti-abortion laws [Courts throughout the country have been holding back such laws due to prior SCOTUS decisions on the subject..like Roe and Casey and the 10th amendment argument that the states have all rights not explicitly given to Congress in the constitution. That is why the Dobbs case is so important.]; DC police officers were told they must have an abortion to keep their jobs;

And, finally: Billie Eilish held a concert in Texas recently and used the stage to demonstrate her character and limited vocabulary, possibly breaking the record for most use of the “f-word” in a public venue, while denouncing the new Texas fetal heartbeat law…and concluding with “my body, my f-ing choice !” To which Abby Johnson replied (on Instagram), “if it has a separate heartbeat and DNA from you, it’s NOT.YOUR.BODY !” Gotta love Abby.