Women's Advisory aborted babies video has been remounted!

You Tube never responded to our inquiries. So CPS has taken the initiative and opened a new account with YouTube. We slightly altered the original Abortion Dumpster Scandal-Women's Advisory video that YouTube took off their site last week.

Hopefully this alteration will comply with their "rules" even though we were never told WHY the original video was deleted from YouTube! The new video is called Abortion Exposed. If you haven't seen it, it certainly is a unique, rare, and disturbing look at the abortion industry!

When we remounted this new video we lost all 7000 original hits that were generated on the original video and all the comments that it generated too! So we are back to zero starting today! (The Hodari Dumpster Scandal video is still available. )

Also, a companion video is available on YouTube, Fr. Pavone's YouTube video. It is a recording of CPS's June 27th burial of the Women's Advisory babies. Take a look...

Yesterday I blogged on KS Gov. Kathleen Sebelius' chances of getting the VP nod from Barack Obama due to her scandalous support of Wichita late-term abortionist George Tiller, which includes hob-nobbing with him at the guv's mansion as well as hobbling numerous investigations.

Would an Obama/Sebelius ticket prove too pro-abortion for the American people, I wondered?

Last night The O'Reilly Factor featured a segment of various on-the-street interviews by Factor producer Jesse Watters (who always does a great job on these things) with governors attending a conference in Philadelphia over the weekend. Most of the governors confronted were from states that have not yet passed Jessica's Law, which would increase the criminal penalty for child rapists.

But the last governor confronted was Sebelius, for her support of Tiller. Click on the link below to view the video. You will then have to click on the "Demanding answers: The Factor confronts lax governors" tab. Sebelius' portion starts at 3:45:

[HT: reader Susan C.]

Only this morning Operation Rescue outted Burtram Odenheimer, M.D. as "one of the physicians currently providing the second signature for patients of abortionist George Tiller that is required before they may receive post-viability abortions."

Continued the OR press release...

Odenheimer, a neurologist who is board certified in psychiatry, secretly sees Tiller's late-term patients at his office at the Wichita Clinic, a non-abortion medical center located at 3311 E. Murdock in Wichita.

KS law requires that an unaffiliated physician must concur with the abortionist that a post-viability abortion is necessary to prevent "substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function" of the mother. Tiller currently uses the mental health loophole supposedly implied in the law as an excuse to abort late-term babies up until the day before birth....

Operation Rescue has plans to launch protests at the Wichita Clinic and sponsor prayer walks in Odenheimer's exclusive neighborhood, located near 21st Street and Webb Road.

OR encouraged readers to contact the Odenheimer and the Wichita Clinic.

By this afternoon, the Wichita Clinic had issued a press release denying it knew Odenheimer and another unnamed physician were helping Tiller and offering that "[b]oth physicians have volunteered to discontinue providing these services effective immediately."

Just goes to show abortion is radioactive to legitimate medical practitioners. Wichita Clinic is owned by the 160 doctors in its practice and is in 11 locations. My guess is Odemheimer is also now radioactive.

Great job, Troy Newman and OR.

[Photo courtesy of OR]

On June 11 CBS News moved pro-abortion KS Gov. Kathleen Sebelius to the top of the list of Barack Obama's prospective running mates.

Pro-lifers await the day, as a Kansas City Star editorial columnist surprisingly got right on July 10. Recall Planned Parenthood bestowed its Maggie Award to the KCS in 2006 "for editorials supporting reproductive justice, family planning, and the right to confidential health care." So KCS is no friend, making this candid assessment of an Obama-Sebelius ticket remarkable....

Sebelius has used the power of her office to waylay criminal investigations of infamous late-term abortionist George Tiller as well as Planned Parenthood.

Could the ironic consequence of Sebelius' love of abortion and abortionists be that she is passed by as a VP pick by the most pro-abortion presidential candidate in history? Or that a combined ticket strengthens the odds that abortion brings them both down?

Here's Shelley's piece:

Google "Kathleen Sebelius" these days and you'll find a steady stream of analysis weighing the pros and cons of the KS governor as Barack Obama's potential running mate.

Pro: She's a successful blue governor in a red state.

Con: Her fireside rebuttal to President Bush's State of the Union speech this year sent the nation into a snooze.

Pro: She's female.

Con: Maybe too female. Some pundits are worried that she and Obama might look too much like a couple.

Overall, the national media are taking the prospect of an Obama-Sebelius ticket seriously, and Obama has done nothing to discourage the notion.

"I love Kathleen Sebelius," he said recently. "I think she is as talented a public official as there is right now."

Most analyses peg the KS Democrat an accomplished public servant who would bring minimal baggage to the campaign.

But the safe pick is a dangerous assumption.

There are two kinds of political baggage. One is the kind the candidate packs herself. In that regard Sebelius travels light.

Then there's the baggage your enemies dump on you. And for that, Sebelius' adversaries in the anti-abortion camp are fully loaded.

Go back to your Google search and, along with Sebelius' name, type in the word "abortion."

Here you'll find a different kind of analysis.

"A vice president for abortion," is the headline on a widely circulated column. An Internet site that describes itself as "dedicated to issues of culture, life and family" labels Sebelius as "the most extreme pro-abortion Catholic governor."

These accusations are at best overblown and at worst blatantly false. They stem from frustration at Sebelius' refusal to cooperate with right-wing groups and legislators who want to use unconstitutional measures to limit abortions and shut down a Wichita clinic that performs late-term abortions.

It would be nice to dismiss these allegations as the rantings of a few extremists. Polls show only a sliver of the electorate is preoccupied enough with abortion to use it as the sole basis of a voting decision.

But in the glare of a presidential race, Sebelius' problems with the anti-abortion movement have the potential to blow up into a huge distraction.

Catholic networks have been spreading the word for months via Internet sites and newsletters that Sebelius is "anti-life." They illustrate their case with photos of the governor, at a reception, standing alongside George Tiller, the physician who performs later-term abortions in Wichita.

If other conservative groups with church connections pick up on that kind of coverage, it's not difficult to imagine a scenario in which a vote against an Obama-Sebelius ticket is portrayed as a religious obligation.

We saw a similar situation in Missouri, with the 2006 campaign to grant scientists in the state the freedom to practice all forms of stem-cell research permitted under federal law.

Early polls showed overwhelming support for a constitutional amendment protecting medical research. But conservative religious groups opposed the measure, and professional manipulators moved into the state with a dizzying barrage of spin and lies. (Millions of vulnerable women will be exploited for their reproductive eggs! Remember that one?)

The constitutional amendment passed by a hair, but the campaign was a case study in what happens when a political issue gets twisted into a religious crusade.

Who knows? Maybe Obama's team and the national Democratic Party would be skilled enough to keep the focus on Sebelius as a moderate, pragmatic governor who stood up for clean air when her administration denied permits for construction of coal-fired energy plants in western KS last year.

Maybe Sebelius isn't as serious a vice-presidential prospect as some of the pundits make her out to be.

But that business of the Kansas governor as a safe pick? It's risky.

[Photo of Sebelius and late-term abortionist George Tiller and wife, courtesy of Operation Rescue, was taken at a reception the guv hosted for Tiller at her mansion last year]

Imagine selling illegal drugs that trigger an illegal, abnormal, potentially life-threatening bodily function with a 10+% failure rate requiring unguaranteed surgical intervention.

I sounded the alarm 3 weeks ago when reading that Women on Waves sells the RU-486 abortion cocktail (mifeprostone with a misoprostol chaser) over the Internet in countries where abortion is illegal.

Now, according to several sources today including Sky News:

Women living in countries where abortion is restricted... are using the internet to buy abortion pills that allow them to have a termination at home.

More than one in 10 customers on one of the most well-known websites needed a surgical procedure after taking the medication, a medical study has found....

Women in more than 70 countries... have used the internet site Women on Web to buy the drugs for £55 ($110) a time.

Women on Web is available in 5 languages and offers the drugs mifepristone and misoprostol; it says a combination of the pills causes the non-surgical termination of a pregnancy and can be used up to the 9th week.

The website says it helps women "gain access to a safe abortion with pills in order to reduce the number of deaths due to unsafe abortions".

But a study in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology found that 11% of 400 customers went on to need a surgical procedure - either because the drugs had not completed the abortion or because of excessive bleeding.

Added monstersandcritics.com:

However, anti-abortion campaigners said women often understated the period of gestation in order to obtain the medication.

'This is very worrying indeed. It's like a cynical form of back-street abortion,' said Josephine Quintavalle, of anti-abortion campaign group Comment on Reproductive Ethics.

Of course, on both points.

Where are the politicians like both Clintons who spout the "safe, legal, and rare" mantra? These certainly violate 2 of the 3. Where are the feminists so concerned for women's health?

I'll answer my own question. These politicians won't say a word because they're getting money from the racket making scads of money off this Internet scheme, the feminists. Btw, it seems obvious that Women on Waves and Women on Web are one and the same.

The utterly subjugated Canadian pro-life contingent is breaking through the silence barrier (what we'd see in the US without 1st Amendment rights) to protest its Parliament's July 1 announcement to present abortionist relic Henry Morgentaler Canada's highest public award, the Order of Canada.

Liberals and the media are rallying around their hero. That's the backstory to this sad tidbit in a Canada.com pro-Morgentaler puff piece today - a vision of abortions to come if the US ever nationalizes health care:

Until last February, an abortion cost $350 at the Montreal Morgentaler clinic, and the clinic did more than 2,000 a year, or 10 to 15 a day. But things changed in February, after the Quebec government finally agreed to cover the cost of fees in private abortion clinics.

It had always covered the doctor's fee, but it drew the line there. Now, Quebec is one of seven provinces in Canada where the full cost of abortions in public hospitals, as well as private facilities, is covered.

"Now that abortions in private clinics are free, a lot of women who couldn't afford the $350 before are now calling us," [clinic manager France] Desilets said. "Calls have quadrupled since February."...

To keep a lid on demand, the government has imposed quotas on the Morgentaler clinic, as well as four other private clinics on the Island of Montreal.

The result of rising demand and quotas has been an increase in waiting times for an abortion at the Morgentaler clinic: Women had to wait one to three days before February; now, the wait can reach three weeks.

You'd think Desilets would be happy - abortions are free in Canada! - but she's not. The aforementioned Morgentaler award has prompted a "contentious" pro-life outpouring of baby Jesus pictures:

But the wreaths and pictures of the baby Jesus have reminded the clinic's staff of 20, including four female doctors, that they are working on contentious social ground.

"We're seeing the re-emergence of anti-choice views that have been dormant in Quebec, " Desilets said. "It's been a bit of a bubble-burster for us. You think everything is great, but then these little incidents happen."

Relevant magazine must certainly be enjoying its 15 minutes. The backlash continues re: statements Obama made in a July 1 interview with the liberal Christian publication. I've previously dissected his "mental distress" and "Born Alive" comments, but Obama touched on 2 other topics that has pro-aborts fuming: partial birth abortion and abstinence education. On pba he said:

I have repeatedly said that I think it's entirely appropriate for states to restrict or even prohibit late-term abortions as long as there is a strict, well-defined exception for the health of the mother.

Obama must have repeatedly said that only to the pandering pro-abort in the mirror, because stalwarts were taken aback. They considered Obama's comment a direct assault on partial birth abortion.

Former Planned Parenthood CEO Gloria Feldt published a piece July 9 and 10 in both the Huffington Post and RH Reality Check explaining why she dissed a July 9 NY funder for Obama and voided her $4,600 donation check...

... So, despite my still-raw feelings about Hillary's concession, I was prepared to go forward this week and commit full support to Obama.

Then the danger signs started....

During the last two weeks, the thunderclouds of doubt have gathered ever more ominously until they cast Obama's character into serious question....

By the time he started parsing what reasons for abortion the law may deem acceptable or not... and sounding for all the world like he was withdrawing his long held opposition to the federal abortion ban, I was seriously questioning whether this man would have the necessary mettle to withstand any challenges at all. Or worse, is he just another politician swaying with the winds and running for cover at the hint of a little thunder?

He'd obviously allowed the anti-choice misstatement of the abortion ban's provisions to frame his answer, when any lawyer ought to know that buying into your adversary's argument is guaranteed to doom your own....

"Federal abortion ban" is what pro-aborts call the Partial Birth Abortion Ban, btw. This seems like a good time for a commercial break:

Back to our story, reported The Politico yesterday:

For the past week, some activists in the abortion rights community have been trying to figure out why Barack Obama, a Democrat praised for his strong defense of reproductive rights, appeared to be turning soft.

Those who work on the front lines of the abortion debate couldn't quite believe what they were hearing: Obama, in an interview with a Christian magazine, seemed to reject a mental health exception to the ban on late-term abortions. They feared that Obama, like Democrat John Kerry in 2004, was adopting a view favored by abortion opponents to appeal to conservatives.

After days of examining his initial comments and a subsequent clarification that he supports a mental health exception - as long as the woman suffers a diagnosed illness and is not just "feeling blue" - some activists are satisfied, while others are far from it or just plain confused....

"The e-mails were just going back and forth," said Eleanor Smeal, president of the Feminist Majority Foundation....

The reaction to Obama's statement revealed a divide in the abortion rights community, one that closely tracks the allegiances formed during the Democratic Party's protracted primary election fight. While NOW and the Feminist Majority voiced concern over Obama's abortion remarks, two of the largest organizations dedicated to reproductive rights took a different tack and backed up Obama.

Last paragraph, interesting. And pro-aborts need not worry about Obama. He may talk soft but will never actually go soft. He takes Viabortionagra every day.

It was Obama's comment on abstinence in Relevant that was "the last straw" for Feldt, "when he gratuitously offered up language coded to out-triangulate any triangulating he had ever accused Hillary of doing":

So, if we are continuing what has been a promising trend in the reduction of teen pregnancies, through education and abstinence education giving good information to teenagers. That is important-emphasizing the sacredness of sexual behavior to our children. I think that's something that we can encourage.

Note Obama didn't say the word "sex" before the first "education." And I know what he really meant in terms of future policy. He'll continue to support comprehensive sex ed that he'll tout as also teaching abstinence. But the other side didn't even like Obama even inferring there was any value to abstinence education.

[Top graphic courtesy of Stanek commenter Cranky Catholic]

Last night I reported the Republican U.S. House leadership allowed its pro-life members use its Special Order hour to publicly expose Planned Parenthood as a racist organization, which also stands accused of committing multiple crimes across the country, and demand Congress defund it.

You can view YouTube videos of clips of speeches by many stalwart and eloquent pro-life congresspersons here. One who particularly impressed me was Rep. Michelle Bachmann:

I picked 3 from this heroic group, looked up their DC office phone numbers online, and simply called them today to leave a message of appreciation. You might consider the same. All the better if you find 1 from your state.

A group of black pro-life leaders will hold a press conference at the NAACP convention at the Hyatt Regency in Cincinnati July 14 to appeal to the NAACP to join in the call to Congress to defund Planned Parenthood for its documented affinity for killing black preborn children....

The NAACP couldn't have picked a better convention host city to showcase some of Planned Parenthood's offenses.

PP of Southwestern OH in Cincy is currently under 2 criminal investigations for covering up child sex abuse and rape.

In the 1st case PP allegedly failed to get consent from a 14-year old girl's parents to abort her after she was impregnated by her 21-year-old soccer coach.

The 2nd case involves a young victim of incest that PP failed to report even though she gave clear signs she was being sexually abused by her father.

In addition, PP used deceptive tactics similar to Chicago and Denver to slip into a Cincinnati community with 4 high schools by purchasing a building under the name of Auburn Parking LLC. A predominantly African-American high school is just blocks away.

Press conference organizers, some who are NAACP members, will educate the NAACP and public that blacks are disproportionately targeted for abortion.

At least 62% of abortion mills are located in minority neighborhoods.

PP employees in OH, NM, ID, and OK have all been captured on tape willing to accept money earmarked to abort black children. None were fired.

PP is also under criminal and civil investigation in several states aside from OH.

A PP in KS faces 107 felony and misdemeanor counts including falsifying abortion records and performing illegal late-term abortions.

In CA the former VP of Finance for the LA PP has accused CA PP of defrauding taxpayers upwards of $180 million.

A $50 million civil lawsuit has been brought against a PP in DC for a botched abortion on a minor.

By its own record PP gets $336k in tax dollars annually.

No matter if they are pro-life or pro-abortion, legislators have a moral obligation to investigate an organization whose business practices appear racist on one end and illegal on the other.

Black pro-life leaders will call on the NAACP to agree that no organization espousing the practice of targeting minorities should receive taxpayer dollars.

[Photo courtesy of WorldNetDaily.com]

In March, I reported (here and here) that the Planned Parenthood anti-mothership had closed five mills belonging to its PP of South Palm Beach and Broward Counties affiliate to make "necessary service upgrades," according to a PP prepared statement.

According to the Miami Herald, the necessary service upgrades involved trying to find $450k, which it did not. So, it has severed this limb, as reported July 1:

Planned Parenthood officially severed its ties Monday from five local clinics... whose top administrator has acknowledged a history of "terrible mismanagement and possibly fraud.''

The disaffiliation allowed the national organization to wash its hands of the local chapter....

The chapter is dealing with many problems, including harassment complaints and possible misuse of nearly $450,000 - slightly less than they received in public funding in 2005.

''All these issues are now issues that they will have to face without us,'' said Karen Ruffato, vice president of operations for the PP Federation of America....

Apparently PP anticipates legal problems down the road.

Not that any of this means permanent closures. It means dueling abortion mills:

Ruth Lynch, the former Broward chapter's CEO... said the chapter's board of trustees plans to eventually open and continue medical services at the five clinics - in Oakland Park, Fort Lauderdale, Pembroke Pines, Deerfield Beach and Boca Raton - but without the trusted name of PP....

Ruffato said they entrusted the more reputable PP of Greater Miami, Palm Beach and the Treasure Coast to open one clinic in Broward and one in Boca Raton.... Officers plan to select one site by next month.

An interesting PP factoid, from the Sun-Sentinel:

It's only the second time in 90 years that a chapter has been expelled; the first was 10 years ago in Hawaii.

[HT: STOPP; photo courtesy of PP of N. Central FL]

Watch C-SPAN between 6-7p* EST tonight.

When the U.S. House completes business, Rep. Chris Smith will host a 1-hour Pro-life Special Order in the House of Representatives.

During this time House members will speak on the subject of taxpayer subsidies for the abortion industry and what their constituents are unknowingly supporting when millions of tax dollars are funneled to organizations like Planned Parenthood.

What is Special Order?

The first 2 hours at the end of legislative business each day are reserved for Republican and Democrat leadership for Special Order business. Tonight the Republican leadership has given its hour to Smith and others to speak for the unborn. It was kept quiet until now to ward off PP types from crashing the event.

*The Special Order should start very soon after the last series of votes. The timing cannot be predicted exactly but will begin sometime between 6 and 7 pm.

Holly Gatling of South Carolina Citizens for Life forwarded a link to the following archived 1957 Mike Wallace interview with Margaret Sanger. I'd never seen Sanger live. I'm not sure how long the interview lasted, 30-45 minutes, but I was spellbound. (Sanger was one itchy woman.)

Sanger was clearly hostile to the Catholic Church. Her talking points were remarkably similar to her Planned Parenthood progeny. She saw pregnancy prevention and population control as the cure for problems such as world hunger. She disagreed that birth control would lead to promiscuity.

The question is, 50 years later, where is any proof Sanger was right? Isn't there, rather, overwhelming proof she was wrong?

The Philip Morris cigarette pitches... wow, now those dated this piece more than anything else. Click on graphic below to link to video:

Interestingly, Sanger refused to call infidelity or murder sin but strongly condemned as sin bearing sick children or bringing children into problematic homes, i.e., eugenics. When Wallace asked Sanger if she believed in sin...

Sanger: I think the greatest sin in the world is bringing children into the world - that have disease from their parents, that have no chance in the world to be a human being practically. Delinquents, prisoners, all sorts of things just marked when they're born. That to me is the greatest sin - that people can - can commit....

Wallace: Do you believe infidelity is a sin?...

Sanger: I don't know about infidelity, that has many personalities to it - and what a person's own belief is - you can't, I couldn't generalize on any of those things as being sins.

Wallace: Murder is a sin.

Sanger: Well, I naturally think murder, whether it's a sin or not, is a terrible act.

Of course we think of murder when we think of Sanger and abortion, but she obviously did not. Sanger also had a new-age view of God, saying we each have divinity within us, although again, she obviously placed preborn children in a non-divine category.

My post earlier today about the newly opened Denver Planned Parenthood referred to PP CEO Leslie Durgin who stated the building was "on budget".

Wait, not so fast, unless "on budget" means a 50% cost overrun.

Projected budget when this story first broke last August:

And two newspaper accounts within the last two weeks on the actual cost:

[HT: Will Duffy]

9News.com today called the newly opened Denver Planned Parenthood "Fort Knox," referring to its $300k security system. Of course, the real Fort Knox is tightly protected because of all the gold it stores, a fitting analogy to PP all the way around.

Denver PP CEO Leslie Durgin said the new abortion big-box, at 50k sq. ft. -- more than double the previous U.S. PP big-box record holder in Aurora, IL, at 22k sq. ft. -- was completed three months ahead of schedule and within budget.

Certainly, the schedule and budget were made generous, due to anticipated pro-life aggravators. Amplified by the added impetus for speedy construction to quell the pickets (which aren't going to stop, as promised) and negative PR, and that's not saying anything.

Click on image below to link to video:

Will Duffy and The Collaborators Project are to be commended for their tireless efforts in picketing PP construction aides like Weitz execs....

This Rocky Mountain News story protested too much, making it appear as if pro-life pickets are almost good for business. Sorry, not buying it.

Nor is at least one other major U.S. construction company, as the impact of the diligence of Denver pro-lifers spreads. Reported the Associated Press June 30:

A construction company set to help build a Planned Parenthood clinic in northeast Portland [OR] has dropped the project, citing pressure from anti-abortion activists....

Walsh Construction Co. owner Bob Walsh, said he was approached two years ago to build a medical clinic. But when PP of the Columbia/
Willamette signed on as the anchor tenant, Walsh said he called other builders who had dealt with aggressive anti-abortion activists. He was told that protesters had gone as far as staking out contractors' homes.

"It's disruptive and very threatening," he told The Oregonian. "I just didn't want to put my family through that."

Walsh said his decision was not based on moral judgment.

[Architectural rendering of Portland PP courtesy of KATU.com]

Last year members of CO Right to Life openly challenged National Right to Life's support (among others) of the Partial Birth Abortion Ban by taking out newspaper ads and threatening a class action lawsuit.

The disagreement culminated in CRTL hosting a hostile hospitality suite at the 2007 NRLC convention and being ousted as an affiliate.

That led to the formation of American Right to Life, which is now focused on establishing personhood at conception through state and federal legislative efforts.

At the just held NRLC convention, ARTL surprised everyone by hosting a hospitality suite at the Crystal City Hyatt where NRLC was meeting. This info comes from ARTL, reporting about its 1st day, July 3. The controversy didn't make LifeNews.com. Also didn't see any MSM coverage, although MSM surely had no clue what was going on....

Scores of NRTL conventioneers are streaming into the ARTL suites to enjoy good food and drink, and to consider the moral argument for the personhood strategy toward ending "legalized" child killing....

The Hyatt told ARTL that we could place a poster advertisement for our hospitality suite on a tripod in their lobby inviting folks to our Regency Suite to celebrate the "personhood amendment on CO's November ballot!" Four things happened immediately after Hyatt personnel placed our poster in their lobby....

First, pro-lifers immediately came to our suite. Second, NRTL officials insisted that the Hyatt remove our poster. Third, Hyatt removed our poster. Fourth, we held our first meeting with Hyatt officials.

Our ARTL hospitality suite was on the same floor as the John McCain's, although ours was twice as large and far nicer with flowers, red white and blue decorations, much better food and drink, shrimp cocktails, literature, DVDs, darkened theater, media center, better seating, etc.

However, after NRTL's complaint, the Hyatt officials maintained that even though ARTL is renting a significant section of the top floor of their hotel, and even though the Hyatt had posted our notice in their lobby, and even though they admitted that, "yes, we misrepresented that you could post your notice in our lobby," still, they would not restore our notice to its tripod.

Attorney James Odom, representing ARTL, told the hotel's general manager that since the Hyatt would not post our small poster board notice in the lobby as had been promised, we would hold signs in front of the hotel with enlarged versions of the poster, blown up to a huge 48-square feet. The hotel called in the Arlington VA police, and told ARTL officials that if they stood on the sidewalk in front of the hotel, they would be arrested.

Businesses and police officers often claim that protests in front of businesses are illegal, falsely claiming that public sidewalks are private property (rarely are sidewalks actually on private property). So, veteran street activist and ARTL spokesman Bob Enyart surveyed the scene and decided not to challenge the hotel's claim.

Instead, the protesters organized across the street. The front of the Hyatt is all glass, hundreds of hotel rooms, glass elevators, enormous lobby windows spanning two floors, etc. By holding signs on the sidewalk directly in front of the hotel, only those entering and leaving the hotel would see them. Instead, by standing across the street, ARTL's massive protest signs were visible and readable to the entire hotel!

We had a team of ten people hosting our hospitality suite. Within a couple hours, it was evident to all that not only the NRTL conventioneers, but at least a couple thousand people were aware that our ARTL hospitality suite was on the 18th floor. And they started streaming in.

Pro-life leaders. NEA teachers. Activists. Pro-life attorneys. Convention exhibitors. Pro-life teenagers. They just kept coming. We had lengthy talks with dozens of important people in the battle against abortion, from leaders in the anti-euthanasia movement, to reporters, to activists from Canada and Spain....

ARTL had set up a Lincoln Theater in their suite, equipped with a projector, and three PCs showing various DVDs: Focus on the Strategy, Romney Fairytale Ads, Forty Years in the Wilderness, and the Planned Parenthood racism YouTube video. When African American NEA teachers entered the suite, after they filled their plates with good food and sat around the living room, Leslie Hanks, longtime Denver pro-life leader, showed them the PP racism video to great effect!

Various regional pro-life leaders either came to our hospitality suite, or sent word wishing us well. We've been distributing the 600 copies of glossy and colorful ARTL literature and press releases we brought, as well as the 200 DVDs....

The inexplicably pro-abortion National Education Association is holding its national conference in DC this week as our state affiliates across the country.

(Who can forget infamous late-term abortionist George Tiller being invited to speak at a conference at NEA headquarters in March, which Students for Life caught on videotape?)

Yesterday pro-lifers held protests not only at the DC annual meeting site but at NEA meetings across the country. The goal, according to a statement by Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust, an organization of young people born after abortion was legalized on January 22, 1973: "to persuade the NEA... leadership to repeal its abortion-related resolutions and policies and to become neutral on abortion."

Added Gingi Edmonds, Survivors spokesperson...

Teachers devoted to serving children should never sanction the killing of innocent babies and future students. An association that lessens the value of the human lives they are striving to serve is a tragedy and should not be supported. This picket is an opportunity for men and women dedicated to protecting children to take action. The time and money being spent on promoting abortion and pro-abortion candidates by the CA Teachers Association and NEA is hypocritical and destructive, and it is time to stop.

The DC protest included the Family Research Council and "nearly a dozen other groups," according to an FRC statement, along with NEA members and delegates. Also in attendance were Nellie Gray of March for Life, Jim Sedlak of the American Life League, and Peter Shinn of Pro-Life Unity. See videos of speakers here.

Our own proofreader Angela participated in the protest of the Milwaukee Education Association meeting in WI, sponsored by Missionaries to the Preborn.

Sex researcher Alfred Kinsey is credited with "revolutionizing" American sexual thought and practices in the 1950s and 60s, including normalization of homosexuality, porn, pedophilia, and abortion.

In reality, Kinsey was a pedophiliac homosexual sado-mashocist who likely died of self-inflicted wounds at age 62. His "ground-breaking" books, The Kinsey Reports contained data obtained from pedophiliacs, which he did not report.

Dr. Judith Reisman has been at the forefront of exposing Kinsey for years. Yesterday she released a 2-part YouTube video, The Kinsey Coverup.

[HT: Dr. Frank; photo courtesy of JAMD]