In December 2010 Planned Parenthood ordered all its affiliates to begin offering abortions at a minimum of one clinic location by the beginning of 2013.

At the time the number of Planned Parenthood affiliates stood at 87, far below their all-time high of 200+. That number has now now shrunken further to 73 with the news earlier this week that Planned Parenthood of Kentucky was merging with Planned Parenthood of Indiana to create the too cute acronym, PPINK.

But Planned Parenthood’s flowery explanation for the merge masked the real reason, according to Jim Sedlak of American Life League’s STOPP in an email to me.

There is an overriding factor that is not mentioned in the article.

At the beginning of 2013, there were six Planned Parenthood affiliates that had not adhered to the Federation’s demand that every affiliate have at least one clinic that does surgical or medical abortions.

The six were:

Planned Parenthood of Central Oklahoma
Planned Parenthood of Kentucky
Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan New Jersey
Planned Parenthood of North Florida
Planned Parenthood of Southern New Jersey
Planned Parenthood of West and Northern Michigan

With the merger, now there are only five.

Once you know that, rereading the IBY.com story reveals veiled hints:

The combined organization will “allow us to to better address the sadly unmet need for family-planning services throughout Kentucky,” said Kim Greene [pictured above], chairwoman of the PPKY board.

All 28 of the health centers will continue to offer preventive health care services…. The four Indiana centers that perform abortions will continue to do so…. The Kentucky centers do not perform abortions.

Certainly, many of PP’s 14 mergers of the past two years have been for the same reason. Planned Parenthood wants to keep those lucrative abortions in-house. But at least two affiliates have chosen to part company with the abortion giant rather than be forced to commit abortions – Planned Parenthood South Texas and Planned Parenthood of South Central New York.

I just checked, and to date none of the remaining five affiliates yet offer abortions. So look for more merges.

In a side note, Indiana Right to Life CEO Mike Fichter believes “the merger will likely result in Planned Parenthood expanding its abortion business south of the Ohio River and driving the abortion rate higher in Kentucky while avoiding Indiana’s abortion laws.”

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by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN, and Kelli

We welcome your suggestions for additions to our Top Blogs (see tab on right side of home page)! Email Susie@jillstanek.com.

• At Real Choice, Christina Dunigan says abortion advocates omitted crucial information about Beatriz, the woman from El Salvador who delivered a terminally ill child at 27 weeks gestation, in order to make the world believe Beatriz had an abortion:
  

  Their argument was that since Beatriz’s baby was “not viable” due to anencephaly, the c-section was actually a hysterotomy abortion, performed to deliver a baby and then just let it die of prematurity.

  Thanks to Melissa for providing links to this Spanish-language article, and this one, which certainly add an interesting big of information: Beatriz had already gone into labor when doctors elected to switch from a vaginal delivery to a c-section to preserve her health….

  I’ve also learned that Beatriz and her mother did go to the nursery and see the baby.

  In other words: She didn’t have an abortion.

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by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

• Arizona lawmakers are working on legislation to allow abortion clinics to be inspected without announcement and without a warrant. Planned Parenthood is opposed. One state legislator pointed out the silliness of requiring a warrant to have an unannounced inspection of an abortion clinic:
  

  Rep. John Kavanagh, R-Fountain Hills, pointed out there is no warrant requirement for other state-licensed medical facilities, and that health inspectors need no warrant to check out the conditions in the food-preparation areas of the local McDonald’s restaurant, an operation Kavanagh said is far less dangerous to public safety.

  “An inspector can mosey in any time, unannounced, to protect the public,” he said.

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As reported yesterday by LifeSiteNews, IRS Exempt Organization Specialist Sherry Wan spoke with Ania Joseph of the Texas group Pro-Life Revolution, insisting that the organization remain neutral on abortion and avoid speaking to abortion-minded women in order to obtain tax exemption:

The legal organization Alliance Defending Freedom represents the group, which did not receive its tax-exempt status until last week, nearly two-and-a-half years after applying for it.

“The IRS is a tax collector; it shouldn’t be allowed to be the speech and belief police,” said Senior Legal Counsel Erik Stanley. “The current scandal isn’t new but has merely exposed the abuse of power that characterizes this agency and threatens our fundamental freedoms.”…

In March 2012, Joseph received the call from Wan that is depicted in the recording.

IRS Caught on Tape from ADF Media Relations on Vimeo.

Continued from LSN:

In February of this year, the IRS requested additional information in another letter and attempted to apply a standard for tax exemption to Pro-Life Revolution that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit held to be unconstitutional in 1980. Alliance Defending Freedom pointed this out in a letter responding to the IRS, which finally granted tax-exempt status to the organization in a letter received Thursday.

“The power to tax is the power to destroy,” added Stanley…. “We cannot allow the IRS to ruthlessly dictate against legitimate non-profits simply because it does not approve of the organization’s mission….”

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by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

• A Connecticut man’s bail has been set at $2.5 million after he was accused of hiring a friend to kill his pregnant girlfriend. Carlton Bryan allegedly wanted Shamari Jenkins dead because she wouldn’t have an abortion:
  

  Calling the crime “egregious,” prosecutor Cathryn J. Krinitsky told the judge that Bryan asked a friend to shoot his girlfriend because “the girlfriend has previously decided to have an abortion but decided not to.”

  According to the warrant for Bryan’s arrest, he “begged” Hall-Davis to shoot Jenkins, 20. She was shot in the chest April 29 as she sat behind the wheel of her Honda Accord, with Bryan in the front passenger seat, in front of 137 Magnolia St. in the city’s North End.

  “Carlton Bryan did not want to have the baby with Shamari Jenkins,” Hall-Davis told police. “Carlton Bryan said Shamari initially agreed to have an abortion but changed her mind and she was now four months pregnant.”

  Hall-Davis also told police that Bryan “wanted to stay with… his other girlfriend,” the warrant states.

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by LauraLoo

Via a write-up and recording by Family Life Today:

When Greg Wright realized that he didn’t have a clue who his daughter’s best friend was, he decided to do something radical to reconnect. That’s when the concept of “dating” his daughters took shape, and he’s never looked back.  Greg joins another fan of daddy-daughter dates, Rob Teigen, and his wife, Joanna, to talk about the benefits and challenges of spending one-on-one time with their daughters.

With today’s busy schedules, it can be difficult for fathers to create meaningful memories with their girls. 88 Great Daddy-Daughter Dates provides dads with a wide variety of fun ideas for spending quality time with their daughters. Each date tells dads what supplies are needed, where to go, and how to grow together.  Included for each date are Scriptures and questions to get the conversation flowing.

This book would make a perfect Father’s Day gift!

To all the dads: How do you spend quality time with your daughter(s)? Is this an area in which you could improve?

Email dailyvid@jillstanek.com with your video suggestions.

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I was researching something last week and stumbled on an announcement by Planned Parenthood of Northeast, Mid-Penn & Bucks County in Pennsylvania that it was shuttering its Carlisle clinic. This is not an abortion mill; it is what pro-lifers call a “feeder” – a conduit to PP abortion mills. But its closure is still a boon for the health and welfare of that community. And Planned Parenthood’s political influence will be removed from the area.

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We are so excited to announce the arrival of our third child, Marcus Anthony Duggar. Mackynzie and Michael are thrilled to welcome a little brother and we are so thankful that mom and baby are well!

We are blessed to have our family close as we celebrate this gift from God!

~ Josh and Anna Duggar announcing the birth of their third child who was born on June 2, US Magazine, June 7

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Both liberal and conservative cartoonists piled on the IRS and invasion or privacy scandals this week, so it was hard to choose my top five favorites. But here they are. Be sure to vote for your fav in the poll at the bottom of this post!

by Gary Varvel at Townhall.com…

 by Chip Bok at Townhall.com…

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Another time he went into the synagogue, and a man with a shriveled hand was there. Some of them were looking for a reason to accuse Jesus, so they watched him closely to see if he would heal him on the Sabbath.

Jesus said to the man with the shriveled hand, “Stand up in front of everyone.” Then Jesus asked them, “Which is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill?” But they remained silent. He looked around at them in anger* and, deeply distressed at their stubborn hearts, said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was completely restored.

Then the Pharisees went out and began to plot with the Herodians how they might kill Jesus.

~ Mark 3:1-6, New International Version

*The only time in Scripture Jesus was said to be angry. Definition from the Koine Greek, “Wrath, anger, the feeling and expression of strong displeasure and hostility.”

[Graphic via christian-wallpapers.org]

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