- The Social Footprints of Contraception
The Church's teaching on sexuality that lies behind its teaching that contraception is intrinsically immoral is dazzlingly beautiful.
Many people whose understanding has been clouded by the corruption of our culture have difficulty understanding it.
09/ 04/08 - Teen Sex? Please Do! - Planned Parenthood
Planned Parenthood, the billion dollar corporate abortion mill, has taken indecency to a whole new level and is using your taxpayer dollars to do so.
09/ 03/08 - Johnny's Got a New Girl
The risk John McCain took last Friday is comparable to the 72-year-old ex-fighter pilot knocking back two shots and flying his A-4 under the Golden Gate Bridge.
McCain's choice of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to be his co-pilot was the biggest gamble in presidential history. As of now, it is paying off, big-time.
09/ 03/08 - A Chicken in Every Pot and the Pill on Every Nightstand
During my last pregnancy, I qualified for excellent, free state medical insurance because of our lower income. My husband is in graduate school for a while. This insurance coverage is part of the state's healthy start program for pregnant women and young kids.
09/ 02/08 - Who is Govenor Sarah Palin?
Women and Men across America are cheering the VP pick of John McCain. Here a look at who she is...
08/ 31/08 - PELOSI DENIES CATHOLICISM OPPOSES ABORTION
When asked about when life begins Pelosi answered "...what I know is, over the centuries, the doctors of the Church have not been able to make that definition.”
08/ 26/08 - Planned Parenthood Abortion Center Closes Instead of Following New Law
Monday was the first day that Planned Parenthood, which operates the only abortion business in South Dakota, had to comply with a new state law telling women the truth about abortion. Rather than tell women abortion kills children and has numerous risks, Planned Parenthood closed its doors.
07/ 22/08 - Planned Parenthood Needs More Scrutiny
Last year, Planned Parenthood performed more than 250,000 abortions, which account for about 1 in 5 of our country's total. Of all abortions, those performed for black women accounted for about a third of the procedures. It's also worth noting that a majority of Planned Parenthood's clinics are in minority neighborhoods.
07/ 15/08 - Black pro-lifers to ask NAACP to oppose taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood
Day Gardner: Planned Parenthood has basically bought off Barack Obama
07/ 15/08 - Black Pro-Lifers Demand Parties Refuse Planned Parenthood Funding
Democratic and Republican candidates must reject donations from Planned Parenthood this election year, and Congress should end all federal funding for the abortion provider, according to black pro-life leaders who held two press conferences last week in Washington, D.C., at Democratic and Republican Party Committee headquarters.
07/ 03/08 - Your Tax Money at Work Funding Abortions
For the last few decades, evangelicals repeatedly have mobilized and demonstrated to oppose the operation of abortion clinics. Over the years, many have believed that being anti-abortion had become a litmus test for their support of politicians and policies, which vie for evangelical votes.
07/ 03/08 - Inconvenient Truth for MSM: Black Ministers March Against Planned Parenthood
Exit poll after exit poll in election after election shows the Democratic Party is staunchly supported by an overwhelming majority of African-American voters, many of whom are much more socially conservative on issues like abortion than their party leadership.
07/ 03/08 - Candidates warned against Planned Parenthood money
Corporation's willingness to accept race-based contributions cited
07/ 02/08 - From our friends at KFL
Press release from Kansas for Life
06/ 27/08 - Planned Parenthood: A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing?
During the last few years, everyone in the nation has come to understand that things are not always the way they appear with individuals or organizations. While all of us struggle to live up to our ideals, some groups live permanently in the land of personal or professional compromise.
06/ 23/08
Kline questions why Kansas Supreme Court won’t let key witness testify
By DIANE CARROLL
The Kansas City Star
May 22, 2008
After a judge delayed next week’s preliminary hearing in the case, Kline said Wednesday that he wants the high court to reconsider its order banning a Topeka judge from testifying.
Kansas Supreme Court documents unsealed May 2 show that Shawnee County District Court Judge Richard Anderson has “clearly relevant information,” Kline said during a news conference in his office.
And preventing Anderson from testifying is impeding his ability to proceed, Kline stated in a motion to intervene that he filed Wednesday with the Kansas Supreme Court.
But Planned Parenthood attorney Pedro Irigonegaray said Anderson’s opinions are based on incomplete information and are “irrelevant to the issues now before this court.” He noted that the state attorney general’s office has already investigated and found no evidence of wrongdoing.
Kline filed 107 felony and misdemeanor charges last fall against Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri and its Comprehensive Health clinic. They include accusations of falsifying abortion reports submitted to the state and performing illegal late-term abortions
Planned Parenthood maintains the charges are politically motivated.
Anderson oversaw Kline’s inquiry into Planned Parenthood and another abortion clinic while Kline was Kansas attorney general.
Anderson allowed Kline to forward redacted patient records to Johnson County before Kline became district attorney. And Anderson still has copies of the Planned Parenthood records himself, which Kline wants him to bring to the preliminary hearing.
In the motion to intervene, Kline cites several statements Anderson made in the previously sealed documents:
•In an April 10, 2007, hearing that Anderson conducted, Anderson told an assistant attorney general that there “is evidence of crimes in those records that need to be evaluated.”
•In an Oct. 19 filing to the Supreme Court, Anderson stated it appeared that “someone has manufactured” part of the records.
•In the same Oct. 19 filing, Anderson stated that the “recent disclosures of possible false writings … in context could mean that somebody may have committed a felony in an attempt to cover up a misdemeanor…”
And in a Jan. 16 hearing in Johnson County District Court, Kline noted, Anderson testified that he had concerns about late-term abortion reports provided by Planned Parenthood. He asked a document expert to examine them, he said, and the expert said the documents “do not match up.”
Kline said the court did not give a legal reason for its order prohibiting Anderson from testifying, and he would like to have one.
Irigonegaray, the Planned Parenthood attorney, discounted the value of Anderson’s statements.
“What little information was available to Judge Anderson obviously led him to believe that perhaps there were questions that needed to be answered,” Irigonegaray said. “What is important to know is that those questions were answered by a very competent and thorough investigation performed by the attorney general’s office.
“(Former) Attorney General Paul Morrison had the benefit of a full and complete review of all of those records and concluded that there was absolutely no evidence of criminal conduct – none whatsoever.”
On Wednesday, in Johnson County District Court, Judge Stephen Tatum delayed next week’s preliminary hearing in the case to July 21 and 22.
Planned Parenthood attorneys had asked that the hearing be delayed until after the Kansas Supreme Court decides whether Kline has legal possession of the abortion records he plans to use in his prosecution. Oral arguments on that issue are scheduled for June 12.
“Those records are at the heart of this case,” Irigonegaray told the judge.
Kline did not object to the delay because he does not want to proceed without Anderson. But he doesn’t want to wait until after the Supreme Court issues its ruling.
The unsealed documents arise from two lawsuits now pending before the Kansas Supreme Court.
Planned Parenthood filed one suit on June 2, 2007, against Kline, seeking to get the records back.
In August, the Kansas attorney general’s office sued Judge Anderson. Attorney General Steve Six contends the records should be returned to Planned Parenthood because Morrison cleared it of wrongdoing.