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Backdrop from Dove:

Women are their own worst beauty critics. Only 4% of women around the world consider themselves beautiful. At Dove, we are committed to creating a world where beauty is a source of confidence, not anxiety. So, we decided to conduct a compelling social experiment that explores how women view their own beauty in contrast to what others see.

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From NYDailyNews.com, May 3:

A North Carolina high school banned a student mom from holding her baby son in her yearbook photo over fears it would promote teen pregnancy.

Teachers at Wheatmore High School said a picture of Caitlin Tiller, 17, holding 1-year-old son Leland would sent the wrong message to other pupils.

And so they refused to print the picture in the yearbook.

This was despite the fact that staff asked students to bring along items to help make their photos more personal.

Tiller, who gave birth to Leland in April of her junior year, thought he would be the perfect prop.

She said he inspired her to graduate early to then go on to college — and that she was proud of her decision to have him and continue her studies.

“He helped me get to where I am today. I wouldn’t be the person I am today without him,” she told WGHP.

But last month she was told the picture had been removed from the book. And so Tiller said she would rather her space run blank than have a photo without her son.

“She took responsibility. They should be proud students are willing to stay in school graduate and make something of themselves and not try and hide it,” her mom Karen Morgan said.

Your thoughts?
 

During the Nazi holocaust, Josef Mengele used concentration camp prisoners, including young children, as test subjects for a catalogue of demented medical experiments.  Documents uncovered by Allied forces revealed that, before they were killed, Mengele’s victims were subjected to pain on a scale that can only be described as unimaginable.

After the war, Mengele became known as the “The Angel of Death” and international prosecutors wanted to put him on trial.  But he had fled Germany and could not be found.  Then, in 1985, a body was exhumed from a South American grave that DNA evidence confirmed to be his.  After eluding capture for 34 years, Josef Mengele had died at the age of 68 having never been tried for his crimes.     

But in a Philadelphia courtroom, we are being given a glimpse of what Mengele’s trial might have looked like.  It is the criminal prosecution of abortionist, Kermit Gosnell….

[I]t is interesting to note how Josef Mengele made his living during the 34 years he was hiding from justice.  He was an abortionist.

~ Mark Crutcher of Life Dynamics on his blog, May 3

I received the following email this week and given permission to ask all of you this brave pro-life teen’s question:

Ho. I’m a proud fifteen year old pro-life Jesus Freak named ____. I just want to say God bless you for your work saving babies. Also how do you handle when you get yelled at and called evil for being pro-life?  Someone insulted me and called me evil and stupid and un-Christian. What’s the best way to deal with it?

Your suggestions?

… And that’s not the worst of it. I didn’t have room in my title for the hymn abortionist Timothy Liveright sang to one patient during her abortion, “Jesus, Ohhhhh Jesus, take the sinners down the river, Ohhhh Jesus.” Seems to me that was meant as some sort of double entendre for the abortion he was committing. Gross on so many levels.

I spoke yesterday with RN Jayne Mitchell-Werbrich, pictured above right, who worked at Planned Parenthood Delaware’s Dover and Wilmington clinics for 3-1/2 months in 2012. During that brief time Jayne saw a lot. And what she saw left her “dumbfounded.”

Jayne had worked at a hospital for 25 years until she quit to care for her husband, who contracted ALS, i.e., Lou Gerhrig’s Disease.

After her husband passed away, Jayne decided to take a job at her local Planned Parenthood. She wanted to help women. “My goal was to educate on ways to prevent pregnancy, so women wouldn’t come back for another abortion,” she told me.

PP was a good organization, as far as Jayne knew. But from the moment she stepped into the Delaware PP clinics she felt like she’d stepped into a medical twilight zone.

“Nothing was right,” Jayne explained. “No drug guidelines, unsterile surgical technique, improperly cleaned instruments and rooms, and inadequately trained staff.”

But the worst offense of all was the clinic’s premier abortionist, Timothy Liveright.

Jayne documented what she saw and submitted letter after letter and email after email to her bosses, none of whom are any longer at the clinic, incidentally.

But Planned Parenthood Delaware liked Liveright. He was convenient. An abortionist circuit rider who lived in the Allentown, Pennsylvania, area, Liveright would fly himself to Delaware in his own private plane every week.

And he was speedy. “They were set on getting people in and out,” said Jayne. Liveright maintained such a hectic pace he sometimes cleaned surgical suites himself between patients, although not very well  – leaving dried blood behind, according to Jayne. Liveright also refused to wear sterile gloves during abortions and wore smelly, blood stained scrubs.

Other incidents, excerpted from a letter Jane wrote to her bosses (with slight grammatical editing):

• “During a procedure that another doctor was performing, Dr. Liveright entered the room to see how things were proceeding. The doctors had a conversation regarding the faulty equipment in front of the patient…. After the doctors finished their conversation, Dr. Liveright struck the patient’s right lateral thigh with force with his opened hand, stating ‘BREATHE!’ The patient, shocked and puzzled, looked at me as if to say, ‘What is he doing?’ I suggested that Dr. Liveright must have some sort of unusual technique to help distract patients from the discomfort of the procedure. The patient looked at me, rolled her eyes, held my hand tight, and tried to relax and concentrate on her breathing. That is when Dr. Liveright peeks around the curtain (as he had not exited the room) and plays peek-a-boo with the patient. The patient then rolls her eyes and shakes her head stating, ‘He’s not right.’ The entire time this is happening, the other doctor is continuing to dilate the patient! I then stated, ‘Goodbye Dr. Liveright,’ as I pulled the curtain around his head….”

• “Sexual harassment: I have noted Dr. Liveright inappropriately look up and down patients as well as staff members in a sexual kind of way. He actually stands back with a grin and slowly directs his eyes up and down a patient’s body.”

Jayne said management told her Liveright had previously been disciplined for sexual harassment against a staff member.

Jayne’s letter also described Liveright as a racist in a bizarre incident with an African-American patient:

• “Dr. Liveright enters the room… and states… ‘Did you know that the Belgians took over Africa and did really bad things?’…. He continues to carry this conversation on with himself while he roughly dilates and then belittles the patient…. (by the way, a patient that is crying and holding on to my hand tight, as I try to distract her from him)…. He states, ‘The United States does the same thing. Did you know that?’ The patient, with tears falling down her cheeks, shakes her head, indicating, ‘No,’ which Dr. Liveright replies, ‘I didn’t think you’d know anything about that. Yup, the United States is a big bully.'”

Jayne also described Liveright coming to work late or leaving in the midst of providing services due to “emergencies,” such as a meeting with an airplane mechanic or a problem with his pet goats. (I don’t even want to think about that one.) This meant pre-op patients were left sedated in the waiting room….

• “A few of those medicated patients left the building and were outside smoking and such. Two patients were brought to me in the recovery room because they were ‘roaming outside confused and dazed.'”

Despite all that, PP would not take action. So Jayne turned to the State of Delaware and to the federal office of OSHA. She submitted the letter she had written to PP execs and provided additional information. They, too, dragged their heels. The state Department of Health & Human Services did inspect the facilities last autumn, but only after giving PP a heads up. No surprise, it found nothing out of line.

Finally, OSHA found an infraction. Armed with a letter from OSHA, Jayne and another former co-worker, Joyce Vasikonis, went to their local ABC News station.

At the same time, pro-lifers were releasing videotapes and 911 tapes of five emergency ambulance calls made to the clinic just since January. When pro-life grandmother Rae Stabosz was assaulted while taping one of them, the perfect storm peaked. ABC released an expose, and PP halted surgical abortions – but only temporarily, according to its new CEO.

Without pro-life diligence in maintaining vigil at the clinic to chronicle the emergencies, Jayne doesn’t think her story alone with have made the news.

“The right-to-life people are the ones who were able to bring this situation to light,” Jayne told me. “If right-to-lifers didn’t have those videos, this would have been swept under the rug. The other side gets so lost in abortion, they don’t even care. The right-to-life people are the only ones who care. What they’re trying to do is what’s right. Pro-choice people are all talk.”

Jayne still considers herself pro-choice, although she says her eyes have certainly been opened. Jayne now works with autistic foster children.

Kudos to Delaware Right to Life, Rae Stabosz, 40 Days for Life, and Operation Rescue, which noted this today:

Planned Parenthood of Delaware has temporarily halted surgical abortion services. This action makes Delaware the first state to be free from surgical abortions for any significant period of time since the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision decriminalized abortion.

Liveright is still listed as working at the PP in Dover and a PP in San Jose, California. When I called the PP in CA, I was told no doctor by that name was employed there.

by Kelli

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• At Live Action News, Kristen Hatten discusses “why Kermit Gosnell should be acquitted”:
  

  I want Kermit Gosnell walking the streets. I want him free because there is nothing he did that is incompatible with a pro-abortion ideology. I want him to serve as a constant reminder that abortion and infanticide are the same thing, and it was the Supreme Court’s idea – supported by around half of the citizens of this country – that some doctors are murderers who get to be free citizens.

• At New Feminism, Béatrice Fedor describes characteristics she has noticed among those calling themselves “pro-choice moms.”

• Pro-life Action League says the Planned Parenthood in Wilmington, Delaware (pictured left) has been closed, pending investigation into unsafe conditions:
  

  Conditions at the Wilmington clinic were described as “ridiculously unsafe” and five women were rushed to the hospital due to complications in the past three months alone.

• In the Washington Times, Father Frank Pavone describes “how the human conscience dies slowly, one killing at a time”:
  

  Each of us has a natural psychological and physical barrier to killing someone. In normal circumstances, we just can’t bring ourselves to do it. This is part of our humanity. Killing is easier when one dehumanizes the victim first. Bullies engage in name-calling before beating up their victims. Yet in dehumanizing the victim, the perpetrator dehumanizes himself. So it is with abortionists.

• ProLifeNZ reports that “[a] New Zealand doctor has been suspended by the Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal from practicing medicine for 6 months after three of her patients were unlawfully prescribed the abortion drug misoprostol.”

• At Real Choice, Christina Dunigan recalls her experience working with Mark Crutcher to write the haunting accounts of abortion injuries for the book, Lime 5 (pictured right).
• Pro-Life New Mexico describes an encounter with a post-abortive woman outside Planned Parenthood in Albuquerque, and reminds us that what women need most is to know that we love their babies and them.
• Vital Signs points out that the language of “life at conception” was always accepted until the advent of certain birth control devices designed to prevent implantation. However, redefining the terms doesn’t redesign the actual science of life.
• Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life notes Europe’s trend toward eliminating the sufferers instead of their suffering, through euthanasia and assisted suicide:
  

  Some patients, including many disabled newborn babies, are euthanized even though they have made no request for death. Switzerland, meanwhile, has become a haven for “suicide tourism,” a place where people come, many of them merely disabled or depressed, and are helped to kill themselves.

  Rather than eliminate the suffering—by caring for those who need help, fixing their depression, and so on—Europe is increasingly choosing to eliminate the sufferers. This is disturbing stuff…..

  Even worse… euthanasia followed by organ harvesting has become a reality.

[PP photo via Down on the Pharm]

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

• AZ Central covers Live Action’s sting of The Family Planning Associates Medical Group and got a statement from the abortion clinic:
  

  The Family Planning Associates Medical Group’s e-mail said: “The individuals in the video were never in the position to provide direct medical care to patients undergoing second trimester abortions and no longer counsel patients at our clinic. Family Planning Associates Medical Group strictly adheres to all applicable state and federal laws regarding the delivery of abortion care.”This seems to claim that abortionist Laura Mercer wasn’t going to commit the late-term abortion and was just there to read the state-mandated law.

• Former tennis star Jimmy Connors is claiming Chris Evert’s (both pictured left, then and now) decision to have an abortion played a role in ending their relationship:
  

  He has indicated that his fiancée decided to have an abortion after he made her pregnant. He was 22 at the time, with a volatile bad boy reputation, while she was 19, the all-American girl from a devout Catholic family….

“Chrissie, however, had already made up her mind that the timing was bad and too much was riding on her future,” he writes. “She asked me to handle the details.”

He adds that he told her: “Well, thanks for letting me know. Since I don’t have any say in the matter, I guess I am just here to help.”

• Abortion advocates are gearing up for Hillary Clinton to run for president in 2016:
  

  The liberal backlash against President Obama coincides with a new, nationwide campaign to elect a female president – with his former rival-turned-secretary-of-state at the top of the list. The “Madam President” initiative was launched Thursday by EMILY’s List, which raises money for female, Democratic candidates who support abortion rights.“There is one name that seems to be getting mentioned more than the others. We do not know if Hillary is going to run, but we are hopeful that she will,” EMILY’s List President Stephanie Schriock said.

• During the Pennsylvania governor’s race, will the media investigate whether Democratic candidate Allyson Schwartz’s (pictured right) abortion clinic referred late-term patients to Kermit Gosnell?
  

  At [the Elizabeth Blackwell Health Center, an affiliate of Planned Parenthood], the answers aren’t clear, either. The doctors there don’t perform abortions on site, but they do refer patients to abortion clinics in the area. These days, Blackwell’s policy is to provide no referrals for any patient seeking an abortion past 21 weeks of gestation. The law in Pennsylvania allows for abortions up until 24 weeks, but a Blackwell employee who answered the phone says a woman after 21 weeks would have to travel to New Jersey or Delaware to get an abortion that late. Why?

“No clinics in Pennsylvania will take patients past 21 weeks,” the employee confirmed.

Not anymore, but there was a time when at least one clinic in the Philadelphia area was performing late-term abortions on women who were past 21 weeks of gestation: Gosnell’s. Late-term abortions were his specialty, particularly for poor minority women. If a woman at 23 weeks came to Blackwell looking for an abortion, where would Blackwell refer her to if not Gosnell’s clinic?

[Connors/Everts photos via tumblr.com and nydailynews.com; Schwartz photo via sfmedicalsociety.wordpress.com]

From PBS Newshour:

Five states have moved to adopt tighter abortion regulations, including North Dakota, where a new law prohibits abortions as soon as a fetal heartbeat is detected. Jeffrey Brown gets perspectives from Charmaine Yoest of Americans United for Life and Ilyse Hogue of NARAL Pro-Choice America.

Watch Five States Move to Restrict Access to Abortion Services on PBS. See more from PBS NewsHour.