Category Archives: Pro-Life
The Pill: What Is Your Personal Horror Story?
Planned Parenthood is looking for stories about the pill: Let’s give them some!
Planned Parenthood is once again trumpeting the benefits of the pill, which has, in fact, led to the destruction of women and families and the moral decay of our society.
It is time to tell Planned Parenthood that the lies are over – we are exposing them for the betrayal of women and will persist! We encourage you to fill out PP’s online survey about how the pill has changed women’s lives.
Let’s tell them about the estimated 25,000 lawsuits that are taking place because of the Yaz birth control pill.
- Tell them how the pill opened the door for decriminalization of abortion leading to protests outside of PP’s clinics!
- Tell them how the pill caused devastating side effects for you.
- Tell them how the pill led you into promiscuity and/or abortion, and how that has impacted your life.
- Tell them how the pill kills babies, women, and the environment.
- Tell them how the pill destroys marriages.
- It’s your story! Tell the largest abortion chain in America how you feel!
THE STOPP REPORT. MAY 27, 1010 http://stopp.org Stop Planned Parenthood is a project of the American Life League.
American Life League is the ONLY national pro-life organization that fights against BOTH oral contraceptives and abortion. Pro-Life Action of Oregon is proud to be an associate of A.L.L.
New HLI America Confronts Contraceptive Lies
HLI America
Human Life International launches new affiliate, HLI America!
Very few pro-life groups in our country are dealing with the root cause of abortion, which is the Pernicious Pill and all other forms of contraception that have given the abortion industry its feeder system of contraceptive failures and the devaluing of women and children.
What will HLI AMERICA do? We’re going to fight the “big lie” of contraception . . . “—Fr. Thomas Euteneuer, President, Human Life International
CLICK HERE to read more of the announcement!
Bring Jesus to Planned Parenthood through Mary Campaign
BISHOP APPROVES PRAYERS FOR ‘BRINGING JESUS TO PLANNED PARENTHOOD THROUGH MARY’ CAMPAIGN
Consecration in Washington, D.C. Marks 25th Anniversary of STOP Planned Parenthood
Washington, DC (for 15 May 2010) –
WHAT:
American Life League will unveil new prayers approved by Bishop Emeritus John W. Yanta to combat Planned Parenthood – the nation’s largest abortion chain – during a Rosary and prayer procession in front of Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington.
To observe the 25th anniversary of ALL’s STOP Planned Parenthood project, the event will kick-start a new nationwide campaign to “Bring Jesus to Planned Parenthood through Mary.”
WHEN:
May 15, 2010, 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.
WHERE:
A Rosary procession from The Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle, 1725 Rhode Island Ave., NW, following 8:00 a.m. Mass to Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington, 1108 16th St. NW, Washington, D.C.
WHO:
The purpose of American Life League’s STOPP project is really quite simple: To cause such discontent with Planned Parenthood programs that it will have no choice but to close its doors and get out of town
WHY:
To mark the 25th anniversary of STOPP’s efforts to eradicate Planned Parenthood, the group will consecrate the fight against Planned Parenthood to Our Blessed Mother, followed by prayers asking Our Lady to stop Planned Parenthood that have been specifically written for this campaign and approved by Bishop Emeritus John W.Yanta.
American Life League will also be unveiling three new signs available for grassroots pro-lifers to combat Planned Parenthood.
American Life League was cofounded in 1979 by Judie Brown. It is the largest grassroots Catholic pro-life organization in the United States and is committed to the protection of all innocent human beings from the moment of creation to natural death. For more information or press inquiries, please contact Katie Walker at 540.659.4942.
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
American Life League: Bringing Jesus to Planned Parenthood Through Mary
http://www.stopp.org/prayercard.php
American Life League: STOPP Planned Parenthood
http://www.stopp.org/
Taxes Fund Contraceptives, Population Control
Why do so many pro-lifers focus on Planned Parenthood when there are other family planning and abortion providers? Taxes. Our taxes pay for contraceptives and abortion – against our will.
Planned Parenthood’s Guttmacher Institute’s rationale for contraceptives goes like this:
“Without publicly funded family planning services, the number of unintended pregnancies and abortions occurring in the United States would be nearly two-thirds higher among women overall and among teens; the number of unintended pregnancies among poor women would nearly double.”
However, elsewhere Guttmacher admits that “unintended pregnancies” occur while girls/women are using contraceptives!
Source: Guttmacher Institute
Facts on Publicly-Funded Contraceptive Services
Contraceptive services provided at publicly funded clinics helped prevent 1.48 million of these unintended pregnancies; the remaining 450,000 unintended pregnancies were prevented among Medicaid enrollees who received publicly funded contraceptive services from private physicians.
One in four women who obtained contraceptive services in the United States in 2006—including 50% of poor women who did so—received care at publicly funded family planning centers.
Contraceptive services provided at Title X-supported centers helped prevent 970,000 unintended pregnancies in 2006, which would likely have resulted in 430,000 unintended births and 410,000 abortions.
Does Pro-Life Movement Trust in God or Politics?
Judie Brown wrote in her wonderful Celebrate Life Magazine, Jan-Feb 2010 30-Year Anniversary edition, about her fears for the pro-life movement:
Just Between You and Me by Judie Brown, President of the American Life League
I know about your activities; how you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were one or the other, but since you are neither hot nor cold, but only lukewarm, I will spit you out of My mouth.—-Revelation 3:15-16
These words from the Book of Revelation ring true in today’s era of "tolerance," false compassion and cultural gridlock. We are at a juncture in history that I never thought would occur in my lifetime. This is not a good feeling! I fear that the pro-life effort, if not unified and strengthened based on the fundamental principle of human personhood, will fall into the chasm of anonymity. We are at a crossroads, my friends, and the hour is late. We have heard all the arguments about the supposed need to be pragmatic and politically realistic, and the claim that we are otherwise incapable of stepping out to challenge the status quo.
Judie is talking about NRLC. Remember when ORTL stalled lobbying Oregon in the Fall because "they’re all Democrats"?
And where has all of this stalling gotten us? The time for lukewarm pabulum is over. Either we pro-lifers unite in our goal of ending the murderous practices that have become commonplace in our culture, or we step aside and usher in an era of evil never before imagined.
So, what happens next? Will we dedicate ourselves to God or just continue with the violent status quo? It’s time to decide. Trust in God or trust in the religion of politics.
Judie is calling on all pro-life organizations to work toward a Personhood Amendment. She is saying that NRLC and its affiliates, like ORTL, focus on politics.
Pro-Life Action of Oregon agrees with her.
The Innovation Vacuum
In his booklet "Access: the key to pro-life victory," Mark Crutcher writes about The Innovation Vacuum.
- "It’s uncomfortable to hear but the reality is that there are people within the pro-life community who no longer see their primary objective as stopping abortion but perpetuating their own organizations. Their mindset is what creates this innovation vacuum. The fact that the pro-life establishment isn’t doing anything today that it wasn’t doing 25 years ago is a clear indicator that they just don’t have any new ideas. But that’s only half the problem. The other half is that they don’t want anyone else to introduce new ideas either. Innovation by other pro-life organizations is seen as a challenge to their self-appointed ownership of the movement and I have seen them try to destroy worthwhile pro-life initiatives only because those initiatives did not originate with them."
Readers Respond to Contraception Controversy
Our Position on Contraception, posted last week, which includes an Open Letter to Gayle Atteberry, director, Oregon Right To Life, drew a number of responses, pro and con. Note: Even though the readers who spoke out against our expose of ORTL’s silence on contraception, they DO AGREE with our position, i.e., there is a connection between contraceptive usage and abortion rates.
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Thumbs Up
Dear Nina,
I want to congratulate you for taking this stand: that of showing that there is a profound contradiction between working to stop abortion while keeping silent about contraceptives. A few years ago, one of my teenage children entered ORTL’s essay contest. She wrote an essay on the topic of the connection between abortion and contraceptives but it was very poorly received. I backed down of that battle then, thinking that maybe focusing on a single issue (abortion) would be more efficient, but I think differently now. The problem of turning a blind eye to contraceptives is that the connection between abortion and contraceptives is intrinsic, so to ignore the facts in this instance is suicidal for the cause of life. Thank you for standing up for the truth in this crucial matter, and may God and the Blessed Mother guide your steps and work in His service.
We have supported ORTL for some time but after reading what you wrote regarding their total silence on contraceptives, I am going to write to them about this and if they do not “ease” their policy, I will tell them I will have to refrain from supporting them at this time. I do not expect them to take up two causes here (namely to fight against abortion and contraceptives). I can see how that may be trying to take too much at once. However, while not fighting against contraceptives per se, they can at least not be opposed to it and permit booths and essays on the topic; for there is an intrinsic connection between the two.—-Amelia Volz
Note to readers: American Life League has ALWAYS
taken on both contraceptives and abortion.
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Dear Nina,
Just a quick note to thank you for sending this material. I was confused about the positions of NRTL and ORTL on contraception. I took a couple of days to read through your email and all of the links. Thank you for putting all of that together. It was very well done. Thank you for clarifying things. It’s a shame, really, that there is division in the ranks of the right to life army. It needs prayer and educating action such as yours.
Thank you, also, for speaking for the unborn in your communications and decisions regarding the ProLife Action of Oregon’s position on contraception/abortion. I agree with you and support your position completely. I remember you and ProLife Action of Oregon daily in the Rosary.—-Name Withheld
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Nina,
If opposition to contraception is merely a “Catholic issue,” that would come as a surprise to the Hindu Mahatma Gandhi, the Jewish-born atheist Sigmund Freud, and the growing number of evangelical Protestants who have thrown their contraceptives in the toilet and followed the Bible’s teaching on life and its transmission. If contraception is merely a Catholic issue, then so is abortion. Incorrect. The perennial teaching against contraception has to do with the demands of the natural law, which is binding on humanity, not just humans who happen to be Catholic. Which is why Paul VI did not address Humanae Vitae to bishops only, nor even to Catholics only, but to “all men of good will.”—-Patrick Coffin, radio ho
st of Catholic Answers Live; and author of new book, Sex Au Naturel: What It Is and Why It Is Good For Your Marriage.
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Thumbs Down
Those who wish to bring a stop to abortions have two choices: work together or spend time working against each other.
I have no question whatsoever concerning the interlinking of artificial birth control and abortions. And I may disagree with the unwillingness of Right to Life to address the issue, but I am not going to spend time trying to change their mind, nor am I going to stop supporting their work.
Entering into a pissing contest with them over the issue is non-productive. If they don’t want you to have a booth there, then for God’s sake and the sake of the unborn, find a way to support them and move on.
I do not disagree with your position on artificial birth control. But demanding moral purity of position is not going to get our (you, me, NRLC, the LDS Church, Muslims, and anyone and everyone else engaged in trying to limit and stop abortions) goals accomplished.
The internecine warfare didn’t start yesterday; you are not the first to enter into this fray. And I seriously doubt you are going to win your argument. Getting warfare going between the various groups who wish to bring a halt to killing our children is a subtle or not so subtle distraction from our common goal and looks like, smells like, and has every appearance of the work of Satan.
Spend your time productively. Do something positive for Right to Life and move on.
I do not have a problem with you differing with Gayle on the approach to take about abortion, nor for that matter do I disagree with your approach to that issue.
What I am writing you about is the wisdom, or lack thereof, of taking your dispute with her public in the way that you have. There was an interesting article in Our Sunday Visitor some time ago on this issue specifically – the internecine warfare that has been going on between different groups fighting abortion. I suspect if you contacted the Visitor they could provide you with the article. I would encourage you to do so.
Taking your dispute with Gayle public did no good for Right to Life; it did not and will not change their position; but it certainly can work to cause some of her support to fall off. They do good work and they oppose abortion; they do not do it with the moral stance you and I both agree is important and is the truth; but that does not make them enemies. Christ ate with sinners; we might do wisely to understand that if both Right to Life and you work for an end to abortion, both are working for a moral good, and to understand that we are required to work for the moral good, not to try to enforce moral purity in a way that can damage the work of others who also seek, albeit not perfectly, for the same moral good.
I admire your fire; I just disagreed with your first post. I am not mad – or for that matter, angry. I do think there is more than one way to achieve an objective.
He is risen! May He guide both you and I to do His will. Even if we might disagree as to how to go about it. 
—-Tim Moore
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Our Position on Contraception
Updated 9:03 a.m., 04/14/10
Why was Pro-Life Action of Oregon’s “Contraception” Material Banned from Oregon Right To Life’s Conference?
Our position, and that of Judie Brown, president, American Life League, on the connection between the use of abortion pills and the rate of abortion has been rejected by Gayle Atteberry, director, Oregon Right To Life. But that position is also the party line of National Right To Life.
Atteberry banned our educational material on the contraception-abortion connection from the upcoming ORTL conference. Rather than compromise our beliefs we won’t be participating in the conference.
Silence on birth control’s role in abortion rates will continue to mislead and misinform pro-lifers. More babies will die.
BACKGROUND
Pro-Life Action of Oregon requested a table at the upcoming ORTL 2010 pro-life conference. Atteberry asked to review our educational material (from American Life League) due to ORTL “policies” about ALL.
She banned them all.
Which material did she censor? Anything about contraception!
- Contraception and Abortion: The Deadly Connection
- Emergency Contraception
- Birth Control Pills: How They Work
- Flawed Condoms
Each of these are available for viewing at the American Life League store.
Atteberry characterized these as “minutia.”
“As I see it, Judie Brown is focused on the minutia and ORTL does not agree with that.”
Updated 5:32 PDT 04-15-10 –
“Minutia?”!!! According to the Guttmacher Institute, 54% of women who abort their babies were using The Pill or condoms during the month they became pregnant. Of those, 76% were using The Pill — “inconsistently.”
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Open Letter to Gayle Atteberry, Oregon Right To Life
April 13, 2010 – Portland, Ore
Gayle, in light of your censoring American Life League (ALL) material which makes the connection between contraception and abortion — material I wanted to bring to the April Oregon Right To Life conference — Pro-Life Action of Oregon will not be participating.
Our Position On Contraception
We are very grateful that you took the time to inform us of Oregon Right To Life’s policies which illustrate the philosophical and theological differences between National Right To Life / ORTL and Judie Brown/A.L.L. You expressed being uncomfortable with Brown’s criticisms of NRLC. Your characterization of her criticisms is as follows:
A.L.L. puts a great emphasis in opposing birth control. While it is true that some birth control methods are abortifacients, not all are. Judy Brown adamantly opposes the birth control pill. While sometimes the bc [birth control] pill acts as an abortifacient, it does not always work that way, and many pro-life doctors say there is no proof that it does.
It is obvious that your assessment of Judie’s opposition to The Pill is restricted to its abortifacient action.
We are aware of its abortifacient action. Yet, we are struck by your silence on its rate of failure which leads to “unplanned” pregnancies.
As a serious pro-life activist, we are in total 100% agreement with Judie Brown. The Pill increases abortion.
Have You Met The Pro-Life Baby?
The Next Generation of Pro-Life Activists
Pro-Life Prayer Vigil at Planned Parenthood on MLK
Prayer Vigil at Planned Parenthood on MLK
(Portland, Ore) March 19, 2010 (Pro-Life Action of Oregon) Over 60 pro-lifers gathered on Friday outside Planned Parenthood on MLK, Jr. Blvd. for a peaceful prayer vigil. Organizer Tamra Johnson, Regional Coordinator of Silent No More Awareness Campaign, got the word out. Tamra is also the coordinator for 40 Days for Life/Portland this year. Among the churches represented were Holy Rosary Church, St. Juan Diego, St. Mary Magdalene, St. Agatha, Our Lady of the Lake, St. Pius X, Christ The King, and Rock Point Church.
Tamra, Fr. John Kerns
We were blessed to have Fr. John Kerns, pastor at St. Juan Diego Church, lead us in The Rosary, The Divine Mercy Chaplet, and songs! Thank you father!! It was a bittersweet afternoon. Fellowship outside a place of death is usually like that.
Prayer Vigil at PP on MLK
Friday was an unseasonably warm and calm day in Portland, weather-wise. However, the new building whips up bitter cold winds. The building also casts a dark shadow on the boulevard in the afternoons. It’s a very cold, uninviting environment altogether.
Inside the corner of this building at street level, preparations are being made for something that Planned Parenthood is being secretive about. Pro-Life Action of Oregon is almost certain it will be a gathering place for sex “education” outreach to teens walking by. You will see taped onto the windows the very same cutesy lips and flowers associated with Planned Parenthood’s depraved “Take Care Down There: The Ins and Outs Of The Ins and Outs” sex training site for teens. (Warning: vulgar material.) Outside the door are three-foot-tall bike racks in the shape of the male/female symbols.
We will keep you posted on the developments inside the corner.
Tri-Met has put a new bus stop on the corner.
Many, many cars drive by this place all day long. As we prayed, drivers gave their thumbs up, honked in approval, waved: this lifts our spirits.
But we need more people, especially black people, to join us. One day a black man stopped his car and told us that he would join “if you take down those pictures” of mutilated aborted babies. Yes, this is a problem we can discuss and deal with in the near future.
