Gerard Foundation seeks pro-life proposals

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Gerard Health Foundation, which was the sponsor of the Life Prizes Awards, has issued the following:

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS
The sole objective of the Gerard Health Foundation, a private charity founded and funded by Raymond and Marilyn Ruddy, is "saving lives."

We want to fund projects that save the most lives for the least amount of dollars.

If you are interested in responding to this request for proposals please submit 1-3 pages maximum telling us the following:

  • How many lives you can save?

  • What will you do to save these lives?

  • On what basis (scientific research, past experience, etc.) do you believe these many lives can be saved?

  • How many dollars you need to accomplish your objective?

    Please respond by March 31, 2009 to Jack Malloy at JMalloy@Gerardhealth.org.

  • God speed!

    The latest from Lila Rose and Live Action Films

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  • Live Action Films, led by UCLA pro-life spitfire Lila Rose, has put together a fabulous map spotlighting Planned Parenthood's criminal activity around the country. Click on the map, right, to go to the link.

  • Live Action Films issued a press release yesterday stating it "has provided the full, unedited footage from a recent investigation of a Tucson PP clinic to the offices of the AZ Attorney General and the Pima County Attorney. The tapes show PP covering up a reported case of sexual abuse of a 15-year-old girl, and were made public last week. Read my blog post and view the video here....

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  • Raving Theist spotlights Carla and Aubrey

    carla and family.jpgRaving Theist was not too long ago Raving Atheist. Great testimony.

    RT has also been posting here for some time, first as a pro-life atheist, and now as a pro-life believer.

    RT also has his own blog. A couple days ago he spotlighted dear moderator Carla, a post-abortive mom who is pictured right with her beautiful family, on one of his posts.

    Check it out.

    Jivin J's Life Links 2-12-09

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  • Glamour has a long piece on abortion entitled, "Abortion: The secret health decision women aren't talking about until now" and another piece where 8 women share their abortion stories. (The beginning lists resources for women who've had or are considering abortion - all of which are from pro-choice groups.) The first story is just an attack on crisis pregnancy centers and rest are from women who seem to have no regrets about their abortions. Here's an example from the last story:

    My abortion was not painful, but I am wistful about losing the physical sensation of being pregnant. I never realized how a baby could get into a woman's blood - I still feel a connection to that little lima bean.

  • Officials at St. Mary's University are working on their excuses for shutting down a pro-life presentation by JoJo Ruba. They apparently allowed the event to continue at a nearby church:

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    Chuck Bridges, vice-president of external affairs at Saint Mary's, said the university did let the presentation continue, it just took place at the nearby church instead.

    "It's important to clarify . . . that the lecture was not shut down," he said Wednesday.

    "When we saw the level of emotional engagement from those on both sides of the discussion, we felt it better that rather than having people face disciplinary action, that we would defuse the situation by allowing a bit of a cooling off and moving it to another location a building away," he said.

    "So those who were keenly interested in hearing that side of the discussion, they had that opportunity."

    So the answer to incredibly childish, unruly protestors is to give into the handful protesters and move the event off campus instead of removing the protesters or disciplining them?

  • A woman in Louisiana named Ciara Craig is in the process of being charged with first degree murder after admitting to throwing her newborn daughter into a lake:

    Craig, accompanied by relatives, surrendered to police Tuesday night, saying she threw her daughter into the lake that afternoon because she didn't want to raise a child and she didn't want her parents to know she had been pregnant, police said....

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    Craig told investigators the pregnancy resulted from a single incident with a man she doesn't know. At some point recently, she decided to abort her pregnancy but was told it was too advanced. She then investigated putting the baby up for adoption....

    After delivering the child at home, Craig gathered two plastic garbage bags and two bath towels and drove with the infant to Kenner's Laketown park, police said. Witnesses there saw a woman walk to the water's edge, throw something into the water, return to the car and drive away. A bag and a bloodied towel were found nearby.

  • CNN has an article on the experiment using the stem cells of man resistant to HIV to treat an HIV-positive patient with leukemia. The patient has no signs of HIV two years after the treatment. Unfortunately, this treatment isn't likely going to be for everyone:

    While promising, the treatment is unlikely to help the vast majority of people infected with HIV, said Dr. Jay Levy, a professor at the University of CA San Francisco, who wrote an editorial accompanying the study. A stem cell transplant is too extreme and too dangerous to be used as a routine treatment, he said.

    "About a third of the people die [during such transplants], so it's just too much of a risk," Levy said. To perform a stem cell transplant, doctors intentionally destroy a patient's immune system, leaving the patient vulnerable to infection, and then reintroduce a donor's stem cells (which are from either bone marrow or blood) in an effort to establish a new, healthy immune system.

    Levy also said it's unlikely that the transplant truly cured the patient in this study. HIV can infect many other types of cells and may be hiding out in the patient's body to resurface at a later time, he said.

    [Photo of Craig courtesy of Nola.com]

  • Out of the mouths of babes defending younger babes...

    by Carder

    ... comes a summary of pro-life talking points.

    Notice the lack of um's, ah's and uh's so characteristic of a certain leader of the free world.

    Agree with Ace of Spades, "I don't think the arguments are novel but the case is well-made. And dang, she's a very poised public speaker."

    Sadly, the power of her cuteness is not enough to stifle the unleashing of vile YouTube comments. Mom had to disable comments this morning because of them.

    [HT: The Other McCain via Ace of Spades and Hot Air]

    Medical abortions on the rise, salve docs' moral qualms

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    In the February 16 issue of Newsweek, editor, columnist, and abortion proponent Anna Quindlen writes a pro-medical abortions column. About it my friend Colleen wrote...

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    Yaz jazz

    The New York Times on February 10 reported the FDA has undertaken "an unusual crackdown" against Bayer, manufacturer of the birth control pill Yaz, forcing it to issue corrective ads for "overstat[ing] the drug's ability to improve women's moods and clear up acne, while playing down its potential health risks" in previous ads.

    Here's 1 of the 2 ads that got Bayer in trouble. Note the balloons indicating "headaches," "acne," and "feeling anxious" will float away if women use Yaz:

    I sure wish I could find the other ad, which sounds funny on so many levels, but it has vanished off the Internet. According to YourLawyer.com, it
    "featur[ed] women singing 'We're not gonna take it' and kicking, punching, and pushing balloons imprinted with words such as 'irritability,' 'moodiness,' and 'bloating'." That song, incidentally, was by Twisted Sister, seen here giving a shout out to Yaz at a concert. As I said, so many levels of unintended parody....

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