Poor Planned Parenthood, with its piddly one billion dollar annual income. It’s just no match for evil, greedy whistleblowers, at least according to pro-abort “reporter” Carolyn Jones at The Guardian:

Whistleblowers are the good guys, right? They cry foul on charlatans and overreaching governments. But what if your urge to disclose is lubricated by the promise of a whopping pile of cash? What if powerful lobby groups are standing by to give you first-rate legal representation? And what if your inside knowledge relates to one of America’s most bitter cultural conflicts?

Well, if the prospect of a hefty legal settlement helps persuade you to the anti-abortion cause, then the US False Claims Act, being used to expensive effect against Planned Parenthood providers, might be the law for you.

Jones disdained the fact that former Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast employee Karen Reynolds got a $1.25 million settlement  from the U.S. Obama/Holder Department of Justice, which, Jones did not note, agreed with Reynolds that PPGC committed Medicaid fraud.

No, Planned Parenthood is the underdog, paying off such unmerited lawsuits “rather than endure costly legal battles.”

Nor did Jones like the fact that I promoted Reynolds’ bounty:

And after the size of Reynolds’ bounty became public, influential anti-choice blogger Jill Stanek tweeted every Planned Parenthood affiliate to “tell what u know”. She also endorsed a follower’s tweet that said, “heck, for $1.25 Mil, I’d even tell them what I don’t know”, and she crowed to the ADF that she was trying to drum up business for them.

Commenter ninoinoz nicely summed up all that was wrong with Jones’ piece:

Gosh, I’ve really enjoyed this article.

The Guardian griping against whistleblowers when it’s one of its pet causes being exposed. Julian Assange and Edward Snowden, anyone?

Also, considering abortion is only legal it the United States because of a court decision (Roe vs. Wade), it is LOL funny to complain about legal actions launched by your opponents.

I also like the belly-aching about pro-life groups organising and financing legal action. Are you the only ones allowed to do that then?

Finally, to complain about a pro-life activist using social media (Twitter) to seek out fraud is laughable. Are pro-lifers supposed to only use quills and parchment?

The fact is, whistleblowers could bring Planned Parenthood down. So, of course, they must be pretzeled into being the bad guys.

by LauraLoo

A legislative change taking effect in Germany November 1 will allow parents to opt out of identifying their baby’s gender on his or her birth certificate. The law is the first of its kind in Europe.

Germany to Offer Third Gender Option on Birth… by tvnportal

Does this have Brave New World written all over it?

Email dailyvid@jillstanek.com with your video suggestions.

[HT: Drudge Report]

I felt a certain sense of relief and comfort, in the fact that others had thought of this, and that there could be a certain solidarity and community.

We mark every other experience in a Jewish way; why not mark this one?

~ Batya describing her reaction to finding a mikveh (Jewish ritual bath) in Massachusetts for women who have had abortions, Tablet Mag, August 13

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 Secular Pro-Life, Frank Ludwig investigates the frequency of infanticide occurring in abortion facilities:
  

  Abortion rights campaigners continue to claim that Gosnell was an isolated case, but there are multiple indications, such as the mentioned statements of Melanie Green, Jill Stanek, [TX abortion Douglas] Karpen’s employees, Planned Parenthood and Dr. Emily’s assistant, among many others, that the gosnelling of newborn children is a common method of dealing with failed abortion attempts, in some cases even against the wishes of the mother.

• At Stand True, Bryan Kemper shares ten things students can do to speak for the preborn at their schools:
  

  It is time for us to shine the light on this darkness and be a witness in our schools. This generation must be willing to stand and expose the lies of Planned Parenthood and free young people from the bondage of their deadly cycles.

• Michael J. New points out two recent instances of mainstream media getting it “mostly right” on abortion. He also breaks down some recent abortion polling data among professing Catholics.
• ProWomanProLife links to an appalling story about an adoptive mother (with a Master’s degree in Special Education), who has had two of her special needs children removed from her care because she had placed them on a gluten-free, dairy-free diet under the supervision of her doctor. See video here.

• ProLife NZ points out the use of the term “royal baby” used by the media to describe George, the son of Prince William and Kate, before birth – and what that might mean, both for pro-lifers and pro-choicers.
• Right to Life of Michigan highlights a First Things article in response to a Washington Post editorial decrying the mandating of standards for abortion facilities and doctors. George Weigel at First Things writes:
  

  In many states, abortuaries are not required to meet health and safety standards required of the local McDonald’s or Wendy’s. After testimony in the Gosnell case depicted a foul, cluttered, ghoulish “clinic” in which basic sanitary standards were massively violated, how can anyone reasonably suggest that the case for protecting women by enforcing proper sanitation and safety standards for surgical procedures is “weak”?

How can anyone reasonably suggest that there is a “weak case” for requiring that those who perform those procedures have the minimal professional credentials of other surgeons and doctors? How can anyone plausibly and conscientiously claim to promote “women’s health” by resisting such regulations?

• ProLifeBlogs features an Operation Rescue report of another ambulance transport (this time with the patient needing “advanced life support”) from a “filthy” Virginia abortion mill that has a “history of unsafe conditions.” The state recently passed a law requiring inspections:
  

  The problems at Falls Church Healthcare are more evidence that a safety crisis exists at abortion clinics across America where shoddy, hazardous practices akin to those found in Kermit Gosnell’s Philadelphia “House of Horrors” are the norm, not the exception.

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[Will and Kate photo via memphisrap.com]

From FireAndreaMitchell.com:

2012 seems like so long ago. The ‘war on women’ smear was being used by Democrats against Republicans while it was Democrats like Bob Filner [pictured right] who were ‘allegedly’ sexually assaulting [and] groping women.

Planned Parenthood was in love with Filner last year. They loved him so much that they endorsed him in 2012 and helped Filner smear gay Republican challenger for San Diego Mayor Carl DeMaio.

Hey, look! It’s Sandra Fluke!

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At Townhall, Guy Benson also reports that several women came forward with accusations of sexual harassment against Bob Filner “years ago,” but those reports were swept under the rug. Benson asks, “Did national Democrats abide this abhorrent ‘War on Women’ conduct for years to protect a precious House seat?”

And Twitchy hits the nail on the head: “It’s almost as if Planned Parenthood will forgive anything as long as abortion is protected.”

Apparently, even Hooters has higher standards than Planned Parenthood and the Democrats.

[HT: Susie Allen; photo via tjsl.edu]

The a-ha moment for me was the 2012 Democratic National Convention. It was just awful…

I just couldn’t do it anymore.

~ Most. Rev. Thomas Tobin, Bishop of Providence, Rhode Island, explaining his decision to switch from a registered Democrat to a registered Republican, WPRI, August 14

Fr. Z and Hot Air’s Ed Morrisey weigh in.

by Hans Johnson

Last year, Ron DiCianni, an artist whose work is popular in evangelical circles, painted “Before I Formed You In The Womb.”

It had great personal meaning to him:

I painted Before I Formed You in the Womb to make a statement. A statement that each life is precious to the One who created it, namely God. No life is an accident, and each has a purpose. As someone who was scheduled myself to be aborted, that has been my own story as well as the promise we have in Scripture.

There is no reason, God helping us and His Church partnering with us, that this image can not be made available to every pregnancy center, every doctor’s office, every church and every sidewalk counselor to visually showcase God’s sacred design in each unborn life.

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In an interview with TheBlaze, DiCianni’s son Grant says there has already been one case of a teen mother choosing life because of the painting.

Email dailyvid@jillstanek.com with your video suggestions.

[HT and photo: TheBlaze]

While the Solicitor General and his legal team are trying very hard to convince us that state-mandated contraception under the Reproductive Health Law is not population control, an aggressive vaccination campaign among the poor is reported to be causing an alarming rise in infant mortality in the countryside.

Last weekend I listened to reports from family life workers assembled in Cebu City [who]… reported similar cases of infants dying after having been vaccinated by local health workers….

The law… requires that every newborn be given the Hepatitis-B vaccine within 24 hours after birth. Some doctors find this highly questionable because the newborn derives its immunity from the mother for the first 15 months from birth, and risks no infection unless the mother is infected. This raises the suspicion that the Hepa-B campaign could be part of the globally-directed population reduction drive.

… In 2010… the billionaire Bill Gates… one of the leading advocates of eugenics as a means of reducing the global population, told a conference… that “if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we (could reduce the global population of 6.8 billion people) by perhaps 10 to 15 percent.”

… A few months before that… Gates announced that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation would give $10 billion over the next ten years to develop and deliver new vaccines to children in the developing world….

… [L]ast year in India, at least 47,500 children were reported to have been permanently paralyzed after having been injected with anti-polio vaccines. The Gates Foundation and the World Health Organization, who, together with the vaccine industry, are partners in the Global Alliance for Vaccinations and Immunization, dismissed these cases as pure coincidences. But not the family life workers.

In the mid-90s more than 3.4 million Filipino women were injected with tetanus vaccines… found to contain human chorionic gonadotrophin (hCG)… which, when introduced into the body coupled with a tetanus toxoid carrier, produces anti-bodies that render a woman incapable of maintaining [her] pregnancy. The vaccine was supposed to be against tetanus, which afflicts both men and women, but only women were vaccinated, and only women between age 15 and 45.

It was clearly an anti-fertility measure — an instrument of population control.

Now we are hearing more.

~ Francisco Tatad, reporting on what he believes is a connection between attempts at population control and vaccines in the Philippines, Manila Standard Today, August 14

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