"Pink Money"

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, but before you buy that pink wristband, there’s something you need to know.

The leading organization behind the pink ribbon campaign is the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. As the largest recipient of nonprofit funds going toward breast cancer research, Komen attracts donors committed to finding a cure for the disease – a mission we wholeheartedly support. But in a counterproductive twist, Komen is also funding a group that actually promotes a cause of breast cancer. That cause is abortion, and that group is Planned Parenthood.

At least 22 states have Komen affiliates that send donor money straight to Planned Parenthood. Last year, that added up to $731,000. For the past five years, the number reached a staggering $3 million. With Komen’s leadership holding close ties to Planned Parenthood – several having served in advisory capacities or as key supporters – it’s no surprise that both groups deny the impact of abortion on women’s health. But the evidence doesn’t lie, and a growing collection of studies are revealing that the single most avoidable risk factor for breast cancer is abortion.

In 2007, for example, the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons published a study calling abortion “the best predictor of breast cancer.” In 2009, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center found that women who have an abortion increase their risk of breast cancer by 40 percent.

When Komen chooses to send resources to Planned Parenthood – whether for breast screenings or anything else – they are enabling those facilities to use other dollars to promote and perform abortions. That’s not something I’m comfortable with, and if you’re not either, I encourage you to choose an alternative. The Polycarp Research Institute is one of alternatives making significant advances in the field.

We’ve also assembled some helpful information documenting the Komen/Planned Parenthood relationship and an enlightening TV episode of Facing Life Head-On that explains the connection between abortion and breast cancer. Please share this research with others and, in doing so, help us keep Pink Money from becoming blood money.

Sincerely,

Bradley Mattes
Executive Director
Life Issues Institute

P.S. Women need to know that abortion causes more problems – even increasing their risk for breast cancer – than it solves. Please help us get the word out by supporting our important work.

[from Life Issues Institute October 15 eNewsletter. Thanks to Stephanie for passing the info on]

Blood Money

A Film about the corruption of Planned Parenthood.


Here's the site for more information:

http://www.bloodmoneyfilm.com/

Trailer:

Confirmed: Skin cream contains fetal proteins

Company's anti-aging products built on cells harvested from aborted baby

Posted: October 28, 2009
10:24 pm Eastern
By Drew Zahn
© 2009 WorldNetDaily

One of Neocutis' skin products containing PSP

A pro-life organization is blasting a Switzerland-based cosmetics manufacturer whose website openly admits some of its products were developed from the tissues of an aborted baby.

Children of God for Life is a non-profit organization focused on the bioethics of embryonic tissue use in medicine and manufacturing. One of its current campaigns includes petitioning pharmaceutical companies to produce safe, effective alternatives to vaccines derived or cultivated from aborted fetal tissue.

But the organization's attention has now turned Neocutis, a company with offices in San Francisco which has developed a line of anti-aging products that include an ingredient the company has trademarked as Processed Skin Cell Protein, or PSP, developed from skin cells harvested from an abortion.

"It is absolutely deplorable that Neocutis would resort to exploiting the remains of a deliberately slaughtered baby for nothing other than pure vanity and financial gain," said Debi Vinnedge, executive director of Children of God for Life, in a statement. "There is simply no moral justification for this."

The website for Neocutis, which is privately held with estimated annual sales of in excess of $2 million, explains that its research began years ago, when scientists discovered fetal skin's unusual ability to heal without scarring. Scientists at the University Hospital of Lausanne, Switzerland, then created a process to extract proteins from fetal cells in the attempt to obtain an optimal, naturally balanced mixture of nutrients.

The scientists then infused those nutrients into a line of cosmeceutical anti-aging products: Neocutis skin cream, Journée day cream, Lumière eye cream and Bio-Gel bio-restorative hydrogel – products Vinnedge is advising women to throw in the garbage before contacting Neocutis to voice their concerns.

"There is absolutely no reason to use aborted babies for such selfish motives," Vinnedge said. "It is anti-life, anti-woman and counter-productive, as Neocutis is about to find out!"

Children of God for Life boasts that it has been a watchdog on pharmaceutical companies using aborted fetal cell lines in medical products and has received thousands of inquiries from the public on the use of aborted fetal material in cosmetics. But this is the first time, the organization says, that any company was bold enough to put the information right on its own website and in product literature.

In fact, the Neocutis website openly explains the history of its PSP ingredient:

"A small biopsy of fetal skin was donated following a one-time medical termination," the website states, "and a dedicated cell bank was established for developing new skin treatments. Originally established for wound healing and burn treatments, today this same cell bank also provides a lasting supply of cells for producing Neocutis' proprietary skin care ingredient Processed Skin Cell Proteins."

The company adds, "No additional fetal biopsies will ever be required."

But Children of God for Life finds little consolation in the company's statement.

"You note in your literature that 'no further fetal biopsies will be needed,' as though the life of the one child you have exploited has no value," wrote the organization in a letter to Neocutis' CEO. "It is deplorable that you would attempt to mollify the public and whitewash your badly tarnished image so thoughtlessly."

Vinnedge also told WND that companies aren't required to disclose their research history to the public, so there may be facts conveniently omitted from the Neocutis story.

"What we don't know is how many other fetuses were involved before they perfected that one cell line," she surmised. "There's a possibility there were more."

WND contacted Neocutis repeatedly for comment, but phone messages were not returned. A Businessweek web report says the company was founded in 2003 and its directors were identified as Frederic-Edouard Koehn, Patrick Hohlfeld, Diego Braguglia and Jennifer Pearson.

Children of God for Life, however, is actively calling for a boycott of all Neocutis products, beginning a campaign to contact the company's investors and even offering free publicity to companies that will certify in writing their products are free from ingredients derived from aborted babies.

"We know there are companies using moral sources for collagen and skin proteins," Vinnedge said. "We intend to publicly promote these other cosmetic companies competing with Neocutis that are willing to step forward and contact us."

Twitter

If your last name is Byrd, and you're on Twitter ... does that make you a Tweety Bird?

Well, I'm on Twitter now, so you can follow me @ https://twitter.com/seeking4wisdom

We'll see if this catches on for me or not :o)

Abortionist George Tiller Gunned Down

While I do not support abortions, or those who perform them, I was saddened to hear to hear of the awful way Tiller was killed yesterday morning. While I do not agree with what he did, his life should not have ended that way. I hope the law finds whoever committed this crime against him, and is justly punished.

Story about Tiller's death is below.
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By ROXANA HEGEMAN, Associated Press Writer Roxana Hegeman, Associated Press Writer

WICHITA, Kan. – Late-term abortion doctor George Tiller, a prominent advocate for abortion rights wounded by a protester more than a decade ago, was shot and killed Sunday at a church in Wichita where he was serving as an usher and his wife was in the choir, his attorney said.

Tiller was shot during morning services at Reformation Lutheran Church, attorney Dan Monnat said. Police said a manhunt was under way for the shooter, who fled in a car registered to a Kansas City suburb nearly 200 miles away.

National anti-abortion groups had long focused on Tiller, whose Women's Health Care Services clinic is one of just three in the nation where abortions are performed after the 21st week of pregnancy.

In 1991, the Summer of Mercy protests organized by Operation Rescue drew thousands of anti-abortion activists to this city for demonstrations marked by civil disobedience and mass arrests.

Some abortion opponents had resorted to attacks against Tiller long before Sunday's shooting. A protester shot Tiller in both arms in 1993, and his clinic was bombed in 1985.

Anti-abortion group Operation Rescue issued a statement denouncing the shooting.

"We are shocked at this morning's disturbing news that Mr. Tiller was gunned down," said Troy Newman, Operation Rescue's president. "Operation Rescue has worked for years through peaceful, legal means, and through the proper channels to see him brought to justice. We denounce vigilantism and the cowardly act that took place this morning."

Capt. Brent Allred said Wichita police were looking for a gunman who fled in a 1993 light blue Ford Taurus registered in the Kansas City suburb of Merriam, Kan. No other details about the shooting were immediately released.

The phone line at the home of Tiller and wife, Jeanne, had a busy signal Sunday.

Tiller began providing abortion services in 1973. He acknowledged abortion was as socially divisive as slavery or prohibition but said the issue was about giving women a choice when dealing with technology that can diagnose severe fetal abnormalities before a baby is born.

"Pre-natal testing without pre-natal choices is medical fraud," Tiller once said.

After the 1991 protests, Tiller kept mostly to his heavily guarded clinic, although in 1997 he opened it to three tours by state lawmakers and the media.

Tiller remained prominent in the news, in part because of an investigation started begun by former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline, an abortion opponent.

Prosecutors had alleged that Tiller had gotten second opinions from a doctor who was essentially an employee of his, not independent as state law requires. A jury in March acquitted Tiller of all 19 misdemeanor counts.

"I am stunned by this lawless and violent act, which must be condemned and should be met with the full force of law," Kline said in a written statement. "We join in lifting prayer that God's grace and presence rest with Dr. Tiller's family and friends."

Abortion opponents also questioned then-Gov. Kathleen Sebelius' ties to Tiller before the Senate confirmed her this year as U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary. Tiller donated thousands of dollars to Sebelius over the years.

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Rejecting Abortion Using Obama's Argument

On Friday, January 23, Barack Obama rescinded the Mexico City Policy -- this means that Americans are now paying for abortions all over the world. Not only this, but Obama's adminstration promises to sign into law the FOCA (The Freedom of Choice Act), an act that would practically remove all state-level restrictions on abortion.

Our president stated in his Call to Renewal address, "Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values. It requires that their proposals be subject to argument, and amenable to reason. I may be opposed to abortion for religious reasons, but if I seek to pass a law banning the practice, I cannot simply point to the teachings of my church or evoke God's will. I have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is accessible to people of all faiths, including those with no faith at all."

It seems, then, that our president ought to ban abortion if a valid argument, apart from religion, can be made as to why it is an immoral act. While many would say this cannot be done, it is actually very easy to make such an argument.

In fact, it is not only possible to make an argument, but to make the argument very well, and quite strong. "In his book Pro-Life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments, Randy Alcorn notes a number of completely secular arguments for why abortion should be prohibited by law [one of them being that m]edical textbooks and scientific reference works consistently agree that human life begins at conception. Some of the world's most prominent scientists and physicians' testimonies to Congress have asserted this scientific fact.

One might add to Alcorn's remarks that there is without question considerably more scientific evidence for life beginning at conception than there is for global warming. Yet the president earnestly supports protection of the environment and dismisses the need for protecting the unborn. Is that reasonable?

"If there is uncertainty about when human life begins, the benefit of the doubt should go to preserving life," says Alcorn. "If a hunter is uncertain whether movement in the brush is caused by a person, does this uncertainty lead him to fire or not to fire? If you're driving at night and you think the dark figure ahead on the road may be a child, but it may just be the shadow of a tree, do you drive into it or do you put on the brakes? If we find someone who may be dead or alive, but we're not sure, what is the best policy -- to assume he is alive and try to save him, or to assume he is dead and walk away?"

What faith group or atheists would honestly say go ahead and fire at the unknown object behind the bush, go ahead and drive into the dark and unknown figure on the road, or even walk away from the person that has questionably fallen dead or alive -- even if it's me? Whether a person of faith or not, the right to life is not something theoretical or hypothetical -- it's personal and fundamental to all...and an unjustifiable or careless breach of that right is universally agreed to be a crime."

President Obama, the case has been efficiently and sufficiently made by many people. Please, look at the facts, and repeal and prohibit those laws advancing the termination of the life within the womb.

quote from Creech. source.

Immigrants keep customs - prefer sons over daughters

Charlie Butts - OneNewsNow - 1/18/2009 4:05:00 AM

Researchers contend sex-selection abortions are reducing female births, and some of that is occurring in the United States.

Female babies are being aborted largely by Asian immigrant families in America, based on the age-old cultural prejudices in their home countries. Bill Saunders of Family Research Council is saddened but not surprised.

"We know that around the world in countries of their origin there is a fair amount of sex-selection abortion, in India and China in particular," he notes.

Saunders also notices the irony of the situation. "Pro-life people are often accused of being anti-woman," he points out. "The fact of the matter is legalized abortion is resulting in the disappearance of what demographers call the 'girl child' around the world because a lot of potential parents are using medical technology to abort the girls."

These women, according to Saunders, receive sonograms to determine the baby's sex and often choose to abort the baby if it is a girl. He adds that there is nothing illegal about that process. "Here in America you can have an abortion any time and for any reason, except partial-birth abortion," he says.

Saunders believes sex-selection abortion is especially prevalent among the immigrant groups if they have had a girl first, and then want only a boy for the second child.

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