Tuesday, October 3, 2017

Ohio Abortions Hit 40-Year Record Low as More Babies are Saved From Abortion

 STATE   OHIO RIGHT TO LIFE   OCT 2, 2017   |   5:18PM    COLUMBUS, OH
On Friday, the Ohio Department of Health released the 2016 Ohio Abortion Report, revealing a decrease in the number of abortions last year.  This marks the lowest level since 1976, when record-keeping first began. A total of 20,672 abortions were reported.
“This report is further proof of how successful the pro-life movement has been in Ohio” said Mike Gonidakis, president of Ohio Right to Life. “This past year alone, we saw 304 lives saved from the pain and suffering of abortion. We continue to advance groundbreaking legislation to protect the unborn, and we thank Governor John Kasich and the Ohio General Assembly for their role in promoting a culture of life in Ohio. By enacting common sense and life-saving initiatives Ohio is protecting both mothers and their babies.”
Since 2010, half of the state’s abortion facilities have been shuttered or closed voluntarily.  In the last 7 years, Ohio Right to Life has successfully advocated for 19 pro-life initiatives which were signed into law by Governor Kasich. Currently, Ohio Right to Life is advocating in favor of the Dismemberment Abortion Ban and the Down Syndrome Non-Discrimination Act, which will ensure that abortions in Ohio continue to hit record lows.
Ohio’s diverse pro-life movement should pause and reflect on today’s abortion report. The many people who volunteered and prayed from our chapters across Ohio are the foundation of the pro-life movement and the positive thrust of our success.  The countless Ohioans who bring their pro-life beliefs into action by volunteering at pregnancy centers, sidewalk counseling, and educating are also a big part of the lower number of abortions in Ohio.
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“The historic low of abortions reported today indicates that the culture of life we’ve strived for is becoming a reality,” said Gonidakis. “That being said, Ohio Right to Life is whole-heartedly committed to fighting for the sanctity of human life, until the Abortion Report is unnecessary because there are no more abortions committed in Ohio.”


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Planned Parenthood Loses Bid to Stop Waiting Period Before It Can Kill Babies in Abortions

 STATE   MICAIAH BILGER   OCT 2, 2017   |   6:59PM    DES MOINES, IA
The abortion chain Planned Parenthood lost a legal challenge to Iowa’s 72-hour waiting period law Monday when a judge upheld the law.
The Des Moines Register reports Iowa Judge Jeffrey Farrell refused to block the law. He rejected the abortion business’s argument that the law places an “undue burden” on women’s access to abortion.
“The Iowa Act is arguably the strictest mandatory waiting period law in the country, but the only question to the court is whether it complies with the constitutional standard,” Farrell wrote. “It does.”
The Iowa law requires that a woman be offered the chance to see an ultrasound of her unborn baby and receive information about her baby’s development, abortion risks and alternatives before having an abortion. It also requires that women wait 72 hours prior to going through with the abortion.
Jenifer Bowen of Iowa Right to Life said she was pleased to see Farrell’s ruling. However, she said she is not confident in the Iowa Supreme Court, which would hear the appeal.
“We don’t have a Supreme Court in Iowa that has tended to rule toward life in recent decisions,” she said. “I want to give them the benefit of the doubt that they will hear the case out.”
Planned Parenthood and the ACLU challenged the law earlier this year. Attorneys for the pro-abortion groups argue that the law puts an undue burden on women by requiring that they wait three days before having the abortion.
On Monday, the abortion groups quickly filed an appeal to the Iowa Supreme Court, according to the local news.
Here’s more from the report:
In the new case, Farrell wrote that … Iowa’s waiting-period law does not aim to protect women’s health. Instead, its aim is to give women a chance to think over their decision before proceeding with an abortion, he wrote.
“The undue burden standard has been criticized, but it fairly balances the two competing interests of a woman’s right to choose an abortion versus the public’s interest in potential life,” he wrote. “The evidence at trial focused on the hardships women face when dealing with an unwanted pregnancy, but the public’s interest in potential life is an interest that cannot be denied under the law. Both of these interests are important.”
The 72-hour waiting period is not in effect right now because of the lawsuit.
These laws help protect unborn babies from abortion, and the abortion industry knows it. Studies have found that when women see ultrasound images of their unborn babies, they are more likely to choose life.
The law also will protect late-term unborn babies from painful, violent abortions. The United States is one of only seven nations to allow abortion on-demand more than halfway through pregnancy. Polling done on Election Day 2016 found that a large majority of voters nationwide – women in higher numbers than men – support the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which protects unborn babies from abortion after 20 weeks.
“Our state was previously one of the most permissive on abortion, allowing abortion on-demand well beyond five months, more than halfway through pregnancy,” said Jenifer Bowen, a spokeswoman for Iowa Right to Life, when the bill passed in May. “After a years-long battle to gain a pro-life Senate, Iowa finally succeeded in passing life-saving legislation that bans painful late-term abortions.”


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Abortion Clinic That Killed This Women in a Botched Legal Abortion Injures Another Woman

 STATE   CHERYL SULLENGER   OCT 2, 2017   |   1:51PM    CLEVELAND, OH
An ambulance was called to Preterm, a Cleveland, Ohio, abortion facility on Friday, September 30, 2017, to transport an injured woman to the emergency room.
This is the fourteenth documented ambulance transport of a Preterm patient in the past seven years.
The ambulance rolled up to Preterm at approximately 2:00 p.m. Responders were apparently in such a great hurry to get to the injured woman that they left the back doors wide open on the unattended ambulance during the ten minutes they were inside the abortion facility.
Local pro-life activist Fred Sokol snapped a series of photos as the African-American woman was brought out and loaded into the ambulance.
Sokol told Operation Rescue that the woman was clothed only from the waist up and was awake, but appeared to be in a great deal of pain.
The EMTs continued treating the woman at in the ambulance for approximately 10 more minutes before rushing away with lights and sirens running.
Witnesses report that the abortionist on duty that day was Mitchell William Reider, who also works as an abortionist at Planned Parenthood facilities in the Cleveland area.
In 2014, Lakisha Wilson, 22, died after receiving a botched abortion at Preterm. Pro-life activists from state and national organizations sought disciplinary action against her abortionist, Lisa Perriera, but the Ohio Department of Health refused to act. Months later, Perriera was hired on by Planned Parenthood Keystone in Pennsylvania, and given an award and a promotion.
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“This abortion facility is a menace to the public. We hope the woman will be alright, but something must be done by the Ohio Department of Health to eliminate the life-threatening risk to women that Preterm poses,” said Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue.
Incidentally, as another pro-life activist, Frank Kosmerl prayed outside Preterm the following day, a traffic accident occurred in front of the abortion facility, causing Kosmerl to dive to the pavement to avoid being hit. He phoned Operation Rescue from the emergency room, where he was taken for minor injuries he received.
But Kosmerl wasn’t concerned about himself. He was rejoicing because the accident hit a pole and knocked out power to Preterm, so the facility was forced to halt abortions.
Kosmerl’s injuries were minor and he is expected to make a full recovery.
LifeNews.com Note: Cheryl Sullenger is a leader of Operation Rescue.

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