Sarah Neely  |   Nov 15, 2024 

 Likely in response to the Democrats’ blatantly false fear mongering that women’s control over their own sexuality is somehow in jeopardy, especially under a Trump presidency, a new social media trend has hit the internet. Women are publicly, yet somewhat indirectly, promoting methods to cause a miscarriage.

This trend exists in spite of the fact that abortions are more available than ever in America, delivered right to a woman’s front door, in fact, through virtual back-alley pill suppliers.

One TikTok account shows a reel with the caption, “Remember ladies 1000mg of vitamin c every 2-4 hours for 4-7 days is not safe while your [sic] pregnant!!!”

Another reel states, “Avoid the supplement black cohosh at all cost.”

These, of course, are all supplements and herbs that can allegedly cause miscarriages, and young women, likely with no medical training whatsoever, are now suggesting them for DIY abortions.

DIY, at-home abortions are a far-cry from what the abortion lobby has been hammering into Americans’ heads for decades, which is the absolute need for abortions to take place in medical clinics, preferably with federal and state funding.

In fact, when Roe was making its way through the courts in the 1970s, the abortion lobby did all it could to convince Americans that women were dying in huge numbers from illegal, at-home abortions – this is why the procedure had to be legalized, they argued, and only done in clinics.

The icon of a hanger still finds its way to many pro-abortion signs and logos, along with the phrase “We will never go back.” Referring, of course, to this supposed time when thousands of women were dying.

Dr. Bernard Nathanson, a dedicated abortion rights activist who later became a pro-life Christian, was especially involved in creating this new narrative, knowingly inflating the numbers of women dying from illegal abortions to ensure Roe went their way.

In his book, Aborting America, Nathanson reveals just how much the abortion lobby lied to Americans and those nine Supreme Court justices:

“How many deaths were we talking about when abortion was illegal? In NARAL (National Association for Repeal of Abortion Laws) we generally emphasized the drama of the individual case, not the mass statistics, but when we spoke of the latter it was always 5,000 to 10,000 a year. I confess that I knew the figures were totally false. But in the ‘morality’ of our revolution, it was a useful figure, widely accepted, so why go out of our way to correct it with honest statistics?”

This was the crux of the entire abortion movement, and it’s the same argument the abortion lobby trotted out for more than fifty years to protect abortion – until recently, of course. Leading up to the fall of Roe, the abortion industry suddenly switched gears, now pushing for at-home abortions, which the abortion lobby insists is completely safe.

Abortion can now be “self-care” and “self-managed” with a growing number of websites from virtual abortion pill providers affirming the so-called ease and safety of at-home abortions – and making a killing off of it.

“The abortion cartel doesn’t know how to tell the truth,” says Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue. “Abortion pills by mail are a lucrative business for these virtual pill peddlers. No rent, no overhead, and no need to follow-up with the women they might maim or kill with these deadly abortion pills. Suddenly, at-home abortion is safe, empowering, and never allowed to be questioned – even when women like Candi Miller die from it.”

This forced and false blasé approach by the abortion lobby is spilling over into a younger generation, so much so that TikTok influencers are encouraging women to use almost witch-doctor-type remedies to “casually” force miscarriages. Not only are these DIY abortions incredibly dangerous, it reflects an almost unimaginable hardness of heart.

Statistically, a million women each year will lose a child through miscarriage in the United States. Many of those women experience deep sorrow, grieving the child they lost right as their own hopes and dreams of being a mother were taking flight. It’s a kind of grief no woman would likely wish on another woman. Perhaps the “rebels” in these TikTok reels should get off of social media and spend some genuine time listening to a broken mother who has experienced a miscarriage.

The irony is astounding when you consider the constant demands abortion radicals make for affirmation and compassion. Yet this trend makes these women seem emotionally blind, if not completely heartless.

LifeNews Note: “This article was originally published by Operation Rescue, a leading pro-life, Christian activist organization dedicated to exposing abortion abuses, demanding enforcement, saving innocent lives, and building an abortion-free America. The author, Sarah Neely, is Project Coordinator for Operation Rescue.”  

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 By Nancy Flanders | October 26, 2024 , 03:19pm 

An undercover journalist has found that a US fertility startup company has pushed further into the world of eugenics with its alleged offer to allow wealthy couples to weed out their children based on their projected IQ, sparking more concern about the ethics of IVF and genetic enhancement.

According to The Guardian, the IQ testing controversy was exposed by the group ‘HOPE not hate,’ which sent an undercover reporter to Heliospect Genomics posing as a potential customer seeking IVF with his partner. He was quoted $50,000 to use the screening tool PolygenX, which is marketed as a way to analyze genetic data to find which embryo will have the highest IQ.

The reporter took part in a November 2023 video call, during which Michael Christensen, the company’s Danish CEO, pushed PolygenX as a way to help every parent to “have all the children they want and … have children that are basically disease-free, smart, healthy; it’s going to be great.”

The reporter also participated in several online meetings with Heliospect and was presented with the company’s “polygenic scoring” service. It would take the embryos that a couple creates through IVF at another business and use algorithms to analyze genetic data supplied by the parents to predict the traits of their embryos. It said that selecting the 10 “smartest” embryos would allegedly lead to an IQ gain of about six points. It would also screen the embryos for height, obesity, and even acne.

It scores the embryos in part based on the information gathered through Heliospect’s access to biobanks, including UK Biobank, a taxpayer-funded store of genetic material donated by hundreds of thousands of British citizens who agreed to share their genetic data for life. It includes the health, genomic, and intelligence information of those volunteers, who are mostly white and wealthy individuals. Because of this, notes ‘HOPE not hate,’ the scoring that is built into the system will perform at a lower capacity for potential parents outside of that demographic. Ancestry and environmental factors affect polygenic scores — bringing into question the company’s desire to help all parents.

In reality, it’s allegedly creating up to 100 embryos for wealthy couples and then testing them for IQ at a hefty price tag. Those embryos who don’t pass the IQ test are likely tossed because, quite frankly, no one is having 100 children.

Couples could create a seemingly limitless number of embryos and then choose the so-called best of the bunch. Though the company denied that it would allow the creation of embryos on an industrial scale, it is staffed by supporters of eugenics like Jonathan Anomaly (born Beres).

Anomaly is known for his eugenic efforts and his connection to Aporai, a scientific racism website. In 2020, Anomaly published his book “Creating Future People,” in which he argued in favor of eugenics and said ‘eugenics’ became a “dirty word” because of the Nazis and the Holocaust. He has defended “liberal eugenics” as a way to allow parents to “be free and maybe even encouraged to use technology to improve their children’s prospects…”

He called the UK Biobank “a godsend,” adding, “That’s basically the best thing that’s ever happened for this field.”

PolygenX is expected to go public in 2025 but Christensen has said “[t]here are babies on the way” already, despite the fact that selecting embryos based on predicted IQ is prohibited in the UK. Yet, it is completely legal in the United States.

Heliospect advises potential parents to meet with an IVF clinic in the U.S., undergo IVF, request the genetic data of the embryos, and send that data to PolygenX in Wyoming. Then they will receive a login to PolygenX’s secret website where their embryos will be ranked by IQ, sex, mental health, and physical health, as well as certain characteristics like ADHD — and potentially even hair color, eye color, and other traits. Once the desired embryos are chosen, the couple would then return to the IVF clinic and state which embryos they want to attempt to implant.

Heliospect refers to itself as “a biotech startup at the forefront of genomic prediction.” Its goal is “to advance the field of genomic prediction in order to improve human health and wellbeing,” and it proclaims to be “pushing the limits of genomic prediction.”

Pushing the limits of genomic prediction means pushing the limits of morality and ethics in terms of which human beings are deemed worthy of life and which are labeled as failures to be thrown away. The IVF process treats reproduction as an assembly line and children as products to be scrutinized for perfection and objects that must meet the desires of their owners. The work of Heliospect further confirms and expands this.

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  Steven Ertelt  |   Oct 8, 2024   |   10:31AM   |  Washington, DC 

Vice-presidential candidate JD Vance says that, if he’s elected, Donald Trump will fight to defund the Planned Parenthood abortion business.

During his term as president, Trump took multiple steps to revoke taxpayer funding for the largest abortion company in America. Some were successful but the abortion giant fought others in court and prevented his executive orders from being implemented to revoke funding.

“We don’t think that taxpayers should fund late-term abortions,” Vance told RealClearPolitics. “That has been a consistent view of the Trump campaign the first time around, it will remain a consistent view.”

Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion chain, has been mired in scandal after scandal, from allegations that it sold aborted baby body parts and covered up sex trafficking to accusations of “systemic racism” and pregnancy discrimination by its own employees.

Yet, the billion-dollar abortion chain receives more than $500 million tax dollars annually.

President Donald Trump and his administration have been working to block that funding, beginning his first week in office. Some efforts have been successful, while others have been thwarted by the abortion industry and activist judges. But no one can accuse the Trump administrating of doing nothing to stop Americans’ hard-earned tax dollars from supporting the largest abortion chain in America.

Here are seven ways Trump and his administration has tried to defund Planned Parenthood:

#1 Defunding International Planned Parenthood

Trump signed the Mexico City policy in one of his first acts as president. The pro-life policy prohibits international aid funds from going to groups that promote or provide abortions. The move defunded two major abortion chains of hundreds of millions of American tax dollars. The International Planned Parenthood Federation estimated a $100 million loss. Additionally, the British abortion chain Marie Stopes International was defunded by about $73 million in U.S. tax dollars.

The Mexico City policy, which began with President Ronald Reagan, historically has been supported by pro-life presidents and rescinded by pro-abortion presidents. Trump went further, though. He not only reinstated the policy but also expanded it by increasing the number of global health assistance funds and government programs that are covered under the policy.

#2 Defunding Planned Parenthood Ally UNFPA

The Trump administration stopped funding a United Nations agency linked to forced and coerced abortions. The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) “partners on family planning activities with the Chinese government agency responsible for these coercive policies,” the administration said in defense of its decision. China’s oppressive one child policy, recently changed to a two-child limit, has led to forced and coerced abortions up through nine months of pregnancy, as well as forced and coerced sterilizations.

The UNFPA has worked hand-in-hand with Planned Parenthood to promote abortion worldwide, and Planned Parenthood was caught sharing offices in China with UNFPA to promote population control.

The decision stopped at least $32.5 million tax dollars from funding the pro-abortion agency in 2017, the Associated Press reported at the time. The Trump administration redirected the funds to the U.S. Agency for International Development, which provides medical care to families across the world.

#3 Cutting Planned Parenthood Funding $60 Million

In 2019, President Donald Trump enacted a new Title X rule to ensure that the program does not indirectly fund abortions. Title X provides family planning and other health services for low-income individuals. Planned Parenthood could have complied with the rule by stopping abortions or completely separating its abortion business from its actual health services, but it refused. Instead, it prioritized abortions over women’s health. Therefore, it was defunded of about $60 million.

The abortion chain challenged the rule in court, but, in May, a federal appeals court upheld the rule.

However, some pro-abortion Democrat governors defied Trump’s effort by giving their state taxpayers’ money to Planned Parenthood instead.

#4 Cutting Planned Parenthood Funding $200 Million

A fourth effort to cut sex education funding from the abortion chain was blocked in federal court.

In 2017, the Trump administration announced plans to cut millions of dollars in grants to Planned Parenthood through the failed Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program. HHS spokesman Mark Vafiades told the New York Times last year that there is very little evidence that the program was successful. The cuts amounted to about $200 million in grants to the abortion chain and other participants.

However, Planned Parenthood sued, and a federal judge ruled in favor of the abortion chain in 2018.

#5 Helping States Defund Planned Parenthood

In 2018, Trump signed an executive order so states have more control over taxpayer funds to Planned Parenthood and other abortion groups. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced that the administration was rescinding Obama-era Medicaid guideline that limited the way states could take action against Planned Parenthood.

After Planned Parenthood was exposed for allegedly selling the body parts of aborted babies, many states wanted to revoke taxpayer funding for the abortion company. However the Obama administration made it difficult for states to do that by claiming federal control over Medicaid dollars even though states participate with their own taxpayer funds and the federal program. Trump changed that, and a number of states have since taken action to defund Planned Parenthood.

#6 Stopping Planned Parenthood Funding in Coronavirus Relief Bill

This spring, the Trump administration tried to stop Planned Parenthood from getting coronavirus relief funds meant to help struggling small businesses.

A Trump administration official told the Daily Caller that the Paycheck Protection Program included language making it “clear that the abortion industry shouldn’t be able to qualify for those funds, which are desperately needed by small businesses.”

“The interim final rule made crystal clear that an organization with Planned Parenthood’s corporate structure doesn’t qualify,” the official said.

However, the abortion chain found a loophole in the aid program, and many of its affiliates applied for and received funding. In total, Planned Parenthood received approximately $80 million.

Now, the Trump administration is demanding Planned Parenthood return the funds, and it may file criminal charges against employees of the abortion giant if they lied on the applications. Some affiliates have returned the funds, while others have refused.

#7 Helping Texas Defund Planned Parenthood

In January, the Trump administration granted Texas a waiver in its long-fought battle to defund Planned Parenthood and use tax dollars to support real women’s health care.

The waiver allowed Texas to defund Planned Parenthood and other abortion groups from its Healthy Texas Women Program. State lawmakers defunded abortion groups from the program in 2011, but the pro-abortion Obama administration retaliated by revoking federal funding. For years, Texas gave up federal funding for the program and used only state tax dollars to support Healthy Texas Women.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) waiver reversed the Obama-era decision and restored $350 million in federal funding to the program, which provides medical care for low-income women.

Planned Parenthood’s abortion numbers are above 345,000 a year, and its annual reports show record billion-dollar revenues. Its own employees have accused it of being more concerned about money and prestige than women in need. And yet, the abortion chain continues to receive hundreds of millions of taxpayer funds each year. With pro-abortion Democrats in control of the U.S. House, that likely will continue – unless Americans vote in pro-life leaders in November.

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 Since the fall of Roe v. Wade, horror stories have emerged from multiple media outlets, as well as claims from high ranking politicians, alleging that state protections for living preborn babies have created confusion for women experiencing natural miscarriages.

The media narrative suggests that somehow pro-life laws are to blame when women cannot get the health care they need. But while the media suggests that doctors in multiple states are “confused” and putting women at risk, the nation’s largest abortion chain —Planned Parenthood — is not confused at all, and is offering miscarriage care in these same states.

 According to Live Action News’ research, at this time, Planned Parenthood has facilities offering miscarriage care in 11 of the 14 states that have the most pro-life protections in place (Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, and West Virginia).

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Gov. Pritzker signs package of bills expanding abortion rights in Illinois

CHICAGO (WGEM) - Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signed three bills into law Wednesday strengthening reproductive rights in the state.

Passed by lawmakers during the 2024 legislative session, all three new laws aim to protect women seeking abortion care in Illinois.

“The three bills that I am signing today send a single straightforward message. Illinois will always be a place where women have the freedom to make their own medical decisions,” said Pritzker, a Democrat.

One law codifies the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act. This means Illinois hospitals would be required to care even if the U.S. Supreme Court rules federal law does not mandate it.

Another new law expands Illinois’ shield laws. This means state and local authorities are barred from providing any information or resources to help any out-of-state entity from investigating health care legally provided in Illinois, including abortion and gender-affirming care.

The third law adds reproductive health decisions to the Illinois Human Rights Act making it illegal to deny someone employment, housing and a loan or credit based on their reproductive health decisions.

“Six years ago, I promised the women of this state that their bodily autonomy is sacrosanct and that I would work with the general assembly to enshrine that into law. Today is another day of progress and fulfillment on that promise,” Pritzker said.

Republicans who opposed all three new laws argued the anti-discrimination legislation did not have adequate protections for religiously-affiliated organizations.

They argued the shield law expansion could protect criminals, including human traffickers, as providers in Illinois will be unable to report and help other states prosecute those crimes.

“You can talk about protecting reproductive rights all you want but we better get it right and not provide cover for human traffickers, rape and incest of minor children, whatever state they’re from,” state Sen. Jil Tracy, R-Quincy, said during Senate debate.

Republican opponents also argued the legislation codifying EMTALA into state law is not needed since abortion is not a medically necessary procedure.

Illinois Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton, however, believes these new laws are absolutely necessary to protect women in Illinois and across the U.S.

“I am overwhelmingly grateful that we have the tools to protect our people because in Illinois, we trust women and we are never going back,” said Stratton, a Democrat.

She also mentioned Iowa’s “fetal heartbeat” abortion ban, which recently went into effect. Iowa now joins Kentucky, Missouri and Indiana as Illinois’ neighboring states with strict abortion restrictions.

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