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Top Stories Planned Parenthood Killed 321,384 Babies in Abortions Last Year
 How Much Does an Abortion Cost in the United States?
 Planned Parenthood Report: Prenatal Care Down 75%, Contraception Down 30%, Abortions Stay the Same
. New Study Proves Feminists Wrong: Women Say Their Abortion Was Not Liberating
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 Indiana University Uses Brains, Livers and Kidneys From Aborted Babies in Experiments
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 Doctors Said His Brain Cancer Would Kill Him in 3 Months, But He Lived Three More Years
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 Woman Wants to Abort Her 27-Week-Old Unborn Child Just Because the Baby’s Disabled
 Recalling Antonin Scalia: “I Am Sure Abortion is Not Protected by the Constitution”
 Two Women Planned to Have Abortions, But Something Changed Their Minds
 Video Producer Sues YouTube for Censoring Pro-Life Videos
 Abortion Clinic Launches Billboard Ad Campaign Saying Abortion is a Good “Parenting Decision”
 Video of Man Who Committed Suicide Got 6 Million Views Before YouTube Finally Removed It
 Canadian Province Will Give Away Free Abortion Pills


Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, quietly released its 2016-2017 annual report over the New Year’s holiday weekend.
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Across America, the amount of time women waited to have an abortion dropped, while the average price of an abortion rose.
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Planned Parenthood Report: Prenatal Care Down 75%, Contraception Down 30%, Abortions Stay the Same

In the opening “Message from Our Leadership,” Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards and Board chair Naomi Aberly tell supporters “despite the historic threat to our mission ….as we enter our 101st year, we are stronger and bolder than ever before.”
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A new study of post-abortive women across the United States found that women suffer from long-term negative emotions after aborting their unborn babies.
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Indiana University Uses Brains, Livers and Kidneys From Aborted Babies in Experiments

A recent decision by a federal judge in the state of Indiana will allow Indiana University to continue using brains, livers and kidneys from aborted babies grisly experiments.
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Chip and Joanna Gaines Share Their Unborn Baby’s “Little Heartbeat” in Amazing Ultrasound Photo

Fixer Upper stars Chip and Joanna Gaines recently announced that they’re expecting their fifth child.
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Doctors Said His Brain Cancer Would Kill Him in 3 Months, But He Lived Three More Years

J.J. Hanson, a valiant advocate against assisted suicide, died on Dec. 30 after a three-year struggle with brain cancer.
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Professor exposes the Left’s faulty logic: everything is ‘predicated on power’

TORONTO, January 3, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – In a recent video, Canadian freedom-of-speech advocate Dr. Jordan Peterson exposed how and why the extreme left dispenses with the concepts of objectivity, logic, and evidence. 
The 2 hour film, titled “Deconstruction: The Lindsay Shepherd Affair”, consists of a conversation among Peterson and two associate professors from Sir Wilfrid Laurier University, Dr. David Haskell and Dr. William McNally. 
Laurier student Lindsay Shepherd made headlines worldwide after she was called into a disciplinary hearing by two other professors for the apparent crime of having shown a clip of Peterson debating transgender activists on a publicly funded television show. Peterson, a psychology professor at the University of Toronto, shot to prominence through publicly opposing legislation that would force Canadians to use made-up pronouns for transsexuals. 
In one segment of the film, Haskel reveals that he was astonished by a principle he found in the widely used university textbook Race, Class, and Gender: An Anthology: “Objectivity, as found through rational thought, is a western and masculine concept that we will challenge throughout this text.”
“It’s too bad that you’re shocked by that,” says Peterson. “The PC types have been saying exactly that since the 1970s. Make no mistake about this…. This isn’t something they’re secreting in. This is the dead statement.”
Peterson explained that the notions of logic, coherence and even empirical data are held in suspicion by the postmodernist intellectuals who rule the roost in contemporary universities.
“[They say] ‘Let’s question the definition of evidence’,” Peterson says on the video. “Because the underlying idea here is that all hierarchies are predicated on power.” 
From this point of view, there is no disinterestedness, no love of truth: only desire for power.

Postmodernists’ Obsession with Power, Hierarchy

“The reason I put forward something as evidence [from the postmodern point of view] isn’t because it’s evidence,” Peterson explains. “It’s because it’s evidence that I get to have that position of power. And so if you’re a postmodernist and you say ‘Well, I’m going to question your evidence’, what you think you’re saying is that you’re going to question my claim to that arbitrary power.”
Postmodernists don’t believe there is any evidence outside claims of arbitrary power, Peterson asserted: “The postmodernists dispensed with that [idea] in the 1970s. That’s [French philosopher] Derrida. That’s exactly what he said.” 
This leftist obsession with power encroaches even on the hard sciences; postmodern activists see power structures even in scientific fields like biology and chemistry, Peterson explained.
“When they say ‘We want to question the definition of evidence because the definition of evidence currently supports the scientific power structure in chemistry, say, and that’s fundamentally dominated by, let’s say, white men. We can go after the definition of evidence itself. And that’s how we’re going to bring [the power structure] down.’
“And so the next people on the hit list are going to be the biologists,” Peterson continues. “They’re already under attack from the social justice warriors” 
“I’ve just read a paper that says mathematics is whiteness,” says Haskell. “I didn’t know that mathematics could have a race.” 
“Yeah, but the thing is, there’s nothing illogical about these claims once you’ve accepted the central axiom,” Peterson replies. “Axioms are straightforward. The world [according to postmodernists] is a battleground of power hierarchies. That’s what it is. There isn’t anything else outside of that.”

Attempt to Wrest Back Control of the Narrative

Truth, to postmodernists, is merely the stories, or “narratives”, which keep a hierarchy going.
“[They believe] each power hierarchy generates its own internal narrative, including rules for what constitutes evidence that support and buttress the structure of that hierarchy,” says Peterson. “And because the hierarchies exclude, then it’s in the best interests of the people who are excluded to invert the hierarchy. And of course [postmodernists] also regard that as just, even though that’s part of the incoherence of the entire argument.”
Business professor McNally observed that “every dimension” of the Lindsay Shepherd scandal was  about power, including the “double-speak”, the idea that exposing people to ideas could be violent, and the “sacred circling around the victim group.” 
Peterson, a professor of psychology, enthused that the attempts of postmodernists to make Shepherd the bad guy in the free-speech scandal were “so bloody interesting.” He noted the “unbelievable strategic attempt to transform Shepherd into the perpetrator and [professors] Rambukkana and Pimlott into the victims, especially Rambukkana as a professor of color.”
The President and Vice-Chancellor of Sir Wilfrid Laurier University, Dr. Deborah MacLatchey, eventually released a statement exonerating Shepherd of any wrongdoing, but before that the student was vilified by some of Rambukkana’s defenders.
“The reverse narrative was, well, Lindsay Shepherd was using something like her white privilege,” explains Peterson, “and her white tears … to harass a poor … untenured professor of color. There was every attempt on the part of people going after Shepherd to make that the narrative.” 
“Deconstruction: The Lindsay Shepherd Affair” was taped on December 19, 2017 and posted on Facebook on December 26. 

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Cardinal Burke: homosexuality is ‘abnormal,’ Church shouldn’t apologize for her teaching

January 3, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – The Catholic Church doesn’t need to ask forgiveness for its teachings on sexual morality, Cardinal Raymond Burke said in a new interview.
Speaking to O Clarim, Burke, one of the dubia cardinals and best-known defenders of Catholic orthodoxy around the world, addressed the Pope’s June 2016 claim that the Church should apologize to homosexuals. He blasted abortion and homosexual acts as “absolutely unacceptable” and “against the nature that God has created for us.”
“I must say sincerely, even though I haven’t read the words of the Pope, that I don’t see why the Church ought to ask forgiveness for teaching the truth about sex and sexuality,” said Burke.
“What I can say is that this year I turned 69, and I have spent my whole life in the Catholic Church,” he said. “I have never encountered discrimination against people who suffer from the homosexual condition.”
“We know that we are dealing with an abnormal condition,” Burke said. “God has not created us to have sexual relations with people of the same sex. This is not a discrimination against persons. It is to affirm the truth of Christ, the truth of our faith.”
“During my priesthood of more than 42 years, I have always found priests very compassionate in meetings with people who have had this difficulty and have suffered from this condition,” he said.
Burke himself is no stranger to helping the Catholic faithful who struggle with or even openly reject the Church’s teachings on sexual morality.
In 1995, Eric Hess boxed up his crucifixes and Bible and dropped them off at Burke’s office, renouncing his Catholic faith and embracing same-sex relationships. Burke was then the bishop of La Crosse, Wisconsin.
Burke told Hess that he respected his decision, but would pray for his return to the faith and would be ready to welcome him back should he come home.
Three years later, Hess returned to the faith. The cardinal still had the man’s box of Catholic items, which he had kept, believing Hess would come back to Catholicism.
“While some malign Archbishop Burke for his fidelity to God, Church and all souls, I say that he is a true shepherd of the faithful and a present day Athanasius,” Hess maintains. “I tell you that he remains a mentor and an inspiration to me. Although my own biological father rejected me, Archbishop Burke became my spiritual father by lovingly representing our Father in heaven.”

Some acts are ‘absolutely unacceptable’

The cardinal, who is the former Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura, lamented the “frightening decline of Christian culture” and the increase of “rampant secularism” in the United States.
“I grew up during the ‘50s, when American society was marked by a Christian character, mostly Protestant but nevertheless faithful to the Christian identity,” said Burke.
“In those times, we knew about things that have become common today: the reality of abortion, of people who manifest homosexual tendencies, whose personal dignity we always respected, but we were formed to see these acts as absolutely unacceptable, against the nature that God had created for us,” he explained.
The “rampant secularism” tearing through the U.S. includes the annual killing of a million preborn babies and the imposition of “the practice of recognizing unions between two people of the same sex as marital unions.”
Burke described “mounting” attacks on religious liberty: “the government—which has become a very powerful agent of this secularism—forbids the Catholic Church and Catholics from following their conscience regarding the practice of abortion. The Church herself must accept what are considered homosexual ‘marriages.’”

Some of Pope Benedict’s advisors ‘did not serve him well’

Burke also commented on the Traditional Latin Mass, the Church’s relations with China, whether extensive traveling is necessary for a pope, and the role of Latin in the liturgy.
The “integrity of Catholic practice and of the faith” must be maintained when negotiating with the Chinese government on behalf of the Church’s rights.  
He said he hopes papal resignations don’t become “common practice” because since Pope Benedict XVI stepped down, “there is a certain feeling among many Catholics that their father abandoned them.”
Burke repeatedly praised Pope Benedict during the interview, calling him an “extraordinary teacher of the faith” with “great charisma” and “a way of writing and speaking in a manner accessible to everyone.”
Extensive traveling is “not part of the Petrine ministry per se,” said Burke, even though Pope St. John Paul II and Pope Paul VI traveled a lot, so inability to travel should not necessarily end a pontificate.
Some who worked for Pope Benedict “did not serve him well,” Burke said on the topic of whether the retired pontiff was good at governing.
Offering the Tridentine (pre-Vatican II) Mass “is a way to remain strongly anchored in Tradition, because the Mass that we have celebrated since 1962 is more or less the Mass we have received from the time of Pope Saint Gregory the Great,” he said. It’s “important” to keep it “alive” to “maintain a stronger link with Tradition.”
Burke gave an example of the increasingly apparent trend of young Catholics loving their ancient patrimony: “Today there is a great interest in Latin especially among young people. Monsignor Daniel Gallagher, who works now in the Latin section of the Secretariat of State, has a summer course in Latin that is always full. Many would like to participate, but cannot because often there are not enough places.”
Latin is the “living language of the Church,” the cardinal noted, “not a dead language.” And it’s not difficult to follow along when the Mass is in Latin given the availability of missals and handbooks that allow the faithful to pray the entire Mass along with the priest.
“The Mass in Latin has never posed a problem for me, even when I was a boy,” he said. “I understood that this language is a sacred language, spanning the centuries through its use in the Sacred Liturgy. Also, I remember very well the people who used to visit my family’s house when I was a boy, who told us about going to foreign countries, where they went to Mass, to the same Mass we did. This is a very important thing.”

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The corrupt Clintons must FINALLY be held to account

January 3, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – This is different than any of my past articles. I am including an entertaining and yet dead-serious, Twitter-posted video creatively highlighting just some of the insanity that the Clinton's, especially Hilary, have gotten away with.
There has not been any reasonable due process, necessary criminal charges and what would appear to eventually be almost certain convictions and lengthy prison sentences - if - a big IF - all is done as it normally should be done.
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The extraordinary untouchable status of the Clintons is sickening and a danger to the legal and political systems of the United States. All publicly available evidence points to massive, bold, totally unrepentant, ruthless corruption.
It is gross negligence or just plain total cowardice that no one in authority has taken strong, clearly called for actions against the Clintons and their many nefarious schemes, abuses, threats and frequently alleged violence against any who have gotten in their way.
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Hilary shouting about the US soldiers and ambassador who died in Benghazi that she could have prevented - "What difference does it make?"
The Department of Justice must begin taking legal actions against the Clintons, their money-laundering foundation and their undeserved extreme-protected status.
This video is a little difficult to follow. That is, the audio is not always clear. However, persevere, and by the end you should be sickened and compelled to contact the White House. If possible, watch the video full screen on a monitor. It is easier to follow that way.
Keep in mind all the words in this video are the real words of James Comey and Hilary Clinton. This is NOT fiction.
A Trump administration appears to be the only one that will have the guts to get the very necessary cleansing of this political rot done. Time for delay is over.
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I give Trump some benefit of the doubt in that a lot of ducks had to first be put in order before a strong case and strategy could be assembled to fully and finally bleed out this cancer undermining the national interest.
Next on the list must be the Clintons' and Obama's dear friend and psychopathic, extreme globalist, George Soros. Then, Clinton and Soros co-conspirator, Barack Obama.
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Very important among the reasons that this must be done is that these three - the Clintons, Soros and Obama - have been  intensely working to destroy the Trump presidency so that their deadly New World Order plans can resume.
It would be a grave mistake not to take this seriously. There is a window of opportunity now that must not be squandered.

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