Health establishment claims abortion-pill reversal unscientific — fine print suggests otherwise



Democratic officials and various pro-abortion organizations have gone to great lengths to attack abortion-pill reversal, characterizing the life-saving practice as dangerous, unscientific, and ineffective.

A recent report highlighted how the Biden-Harris Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, chief among the institutional exponents of this smear, may have unwittingly planted the seed of this narrative's undoing.

The CDC acknowledged in its 2024 U.S. Selected Practice Recommendations for Contraceptive report that medical abortions can be potentially reversed by precisely the means pro-life organizations employ in their rescue efforts — and it is not the first institution to do so.

Mifepristone

To extinguish the lives growing within them, some pregnant mothers take a drug called mifepristone in conjunction with misoprostol up to 10 weeks into their pregnancies.

Mifepristone — which the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has indicated is linked to a number of serious adverse events as well as the deaths of dozens of mothers — starves the uterus of progesterone, a hormone required for a pregnancy to continue.

Misoprostal then forces the uterus to contract and expel its contents, including the child, usually within days of starting the medication. The Mayo Clinic noted, however, that sometimes mifepristone tablets are not enough to completely end a pregnancy or clear away human remains. In such cases, surgery is required.

Those mothers who immediately regret taking the abortion pill are not altogether hopeless.

Reversal

Numerous pro-life organizations and health care professionals across the country provide abortion-pill reversals. The reversal process reportedly involves the administration of progesterone to undo the effects of the abortion pill; a follow-up ultrasound to confirm the viability of the baby; and at least two weeks of continued progesterone treatments.

There have, however, been conflicting studies in recent years about whether the use of progesterone actually helps reverse the effects of mifepristone.

'The reversal of the effects of mifepristone using progesterone is safe and effective.'

A 2016 paper published in the International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics, for instance, suggested that the administration of a progestin-based contraceptive — either an etonogestrel implant or depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA) injection — on the same day as mifepristone "did not alter the success rates [of the medical abortions]."

Another study published that same year in Obstetrics & Gynecology alternatively indicated that the administration of depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA), a progestin hormonal medication sold under the brand name Depo-Provera, increased the chances of "ongoing pregnancy."

Pregnancy Help News noted why Depo-Provera would help in this regard:

With an increased concentration of progesterone, such as the progestin in DepoProvera, the mifepristone is quickly displaced from those receptors. When providing APR, prescribers offer supplemental bio-identical progesterone, which is similar to what the mother’s body produces. This treatment works rapidly to fight the effects of mifepristone blockage.

In 2017, a case report published in the peer-reviewed European Journal of Contraception & Reproductive Health Care concluded, "Progesterone use in early pregnancy is low risk and its application to counter the effects of mifepristone in such circumstances may be clinically beneficial in preserving her threatened pregnancy."

In 2018, a study published in the peer-reviewed professional journal Issues in Law & Medicine claimed, "The reversal of the effects of mifepristone using progesterone is safe and effective."

Admissions

Pregnancy Help News' Christina Brown highlighted a telling admission in a recent CDC report concerning progestin-only injectable contraceptives, such as Depo-Provera.

Under the section, "Special Considerations," there is a subsection titled "Postabortion (Spontaneous or Induced)." There, the CDC states:

After a first trimester medication abortion that included mifepristone, concurrent administration of DMPA with mifepristone might slightly decrease medication abortion effectiveness and increase risk for ongoing pregnancy (U.S. MEC 2) (1). Risk for ongoing pregnancy with concurrent administration of DMPA with mifepristone versus DMPA administration after abortion completion should be considered along with personal preference and access to follow-up abortion and contraceptive care.

Brown noted that the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, another fierce critic of abortion reversals, also appears to have admitted that DMPA can save some babies' lives.

In an October 2020 practice bulletin, ACOG stated, "DMPA injection at the time of mifepristone administration may slightly increase the risk of an ongoing pregnancy."

Despite ample evidence that the administration of progesterone during pregnancy is safe — it is, after all, usually administered during the IVF process as well as to prevent preterm birth in singleton pregnancies — and its constituents' ostensible acknowledgments that reversal is possible, the American health establishment nevertheless appears committed to denying remorseful mothers the choice of saving their babies.

Criticism

The ACOG states on its website, "Facts are important, especially when it comes to policies and discussions that impact patients. Claims regarding abortion 'reversal' treatment are not based on science and do not meet clinical standards."

The ACOG notes further that while the "concurrent administration of DMPA may slightly decrease the effectiveness of mifepristone for medication abortion, the results do not demonstrate that DMPA 'reverses' medication abortion."

The ACOG has dutifully furnished leftists with the perceived credibility they need to target pro-lifers.

When New York Attorney General Letitia James sued Heartbeat International and 11 pro-life pregnancy organizations in May for promoting abortion-pill reversal, she cited the ACOG's concerns.

"Abortions cannot be reversed. Any treatments that claim to do so are made without scientific evidence and could be unsafe," said James. "Heartbeat International and the other crisis pregnancy center defendants are spreading dangerous misinformation by advertising 'abortion reversals' without any medical and scientific proof."

James' lawsuit accused the pro-life groups of fraud for saying that abortion-pill reversal "can reverse the effects of the abortion pill and allow you to continue your pregnancy" — precisely what the CDC's recent report appears to suggest.

James is hardly the first pro-abortion activist to clamp down on those seeking to remedy mothers' regret.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) also sued Heartbeat International last year and a chain of crisis pregnancy centers over their promotion of medical reversal. His lawsuit also referenced the ACOG's claims.

Colorado's Democratic Gov. Jared Polis ratified legislation in April 2023 exposing health care practitioners to discipline if they dared perform an abortion reversal. The law also forced limits on advertising by crisis pregnancy centers.

U.S. District Judge Daniel Domenico blocked the law from taking effect late last year, stating, "The law at issue here runs afoul of these first amendment principles."

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Arizona permitted to call potential victims of abortion initiative 'unborn human babies' in voter pamphlet



An Arizona pro-abortion outfit was able to get its radical proposition onto the November ballot but failed in its recent legal battle to secure the final say on how to describe its potential victims in the informational pamphlets sent to voters.

The assertion that the unborn are "human babies" is a statement of fact and basic science, yet it has proven incredibly controversial among pro-abortion activists in Arizona. The humanization of past and potential abortion victims may, after all, prompt voters to think twice about supporting Proposition 139 — the November ballot initiative that, if passed, would enshrine the right to abortion in the Arizona Constitution.

Republican members of the Arizona Legislative Council presented a draft analysis of the initiative last month, which highlighted that existing law prohibits abortion if the "unborn human being" is younger than 15 weeks, reported the Arizona Capitol Times. The document elsewhere employed abortion activists' preferred term "fetus."

"The ballot analysis prepared by the Legislative Council is intended to help voters understand current law. Arizona's 15-week law protects unborn children, while the abortion initiative essentially allows unrestricted abortions up until birth," Arizona House Speaker Ben Toma, chairman of the Legislative Council, told the Arizona Capitol Times. "It's really that simple."

Arizona for Abortion Access, the group championing the ballot initiative, sued to prevent the phrase "unborn human being" from appearing in the voter information pamphlet's description of Prop. 139. The group's contention was that the phrase is "tinged with partisan coloring" and that the language amounted to an "illegal effort to confuse voters."

While the abortion activists enjoyed initial success in the Maricopa County Superior Court, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled against them this week, indicating the lesser court was in error.

According to the Arizona Supreme Court, "unborn human being," which is the specific phrase used in existing law, "'substantially complies' with the statute's impartiality requirement.'"

The superior court's ruling has been reversed, and the pamphlet can go out with the language initially drafted by the defendants in the case, the members of the state Arizona Legislative Council.

State Senate President Warren Petersen (R) noted, "Common sense and good judgment prevailed."

'It's reckless to lose those safety precautions just to expand abortion beyond what most voters support.'

In the wake of its failure, Arizona for Abortion Access issued a statement saying, "The Arizona Supreme Court today reversed the trial court's well-reasoned ruling and held that the phrase 'unborn human being' — a watchword for anti-abortion advocates with no basis in medicine or science — is somehow impartial and objective."

"This means that Arizona voters will not be able to know the questions on their ballot in a fair, neutral, and accurate manner, but will be subjected to biased, politically charged words, developed not by experts, but by anti-abortion special interests to manipulate voters and spread misinformation," added the activist group.

While Arizona for Abortion Access has expressed concern about lawmakers' word use, critics have alternatively suggested the abortion outfit's ballot initiative, supported by Gov. Katie Hobbs and Planned Parenthood Advocates of Arizona, was itself deceptively worded.

The initiative suggests, for instance, that the state cannot interfere with an individual seeking or getting an abortion up until viability. However, it appears that even viable babies can be killed at any stage if a so-called health care professional can think up a reason why that baby does not stand a chance of survival outside of the uterus or, alternatively, why the baby's continued existence threatens the health of the "pregnant individual."

It Goes Too Far, the opposition campaign fighting the initiative, notes on its site that the use of the term "health care professional" means that individuals besides doctors, including abortionists incentivized to kill, can make such decisions.

The opposition campaign further indicates that the initiative would have Arizona shut out "moms and dads when their minor daughter needs them most by removing the parental consent requirement."

Earlier this year, Cindy Dahlgren, spokeswoman for It Goes Too Far, told the Arizona Mirror in an emailed statement, "Most voters are not told that under this unregulated, unlimited abortion amendment they will lose the required medical doctor, critical and commonsense safety standards for girls and women seeking abortion, and moms and dads will be shut out of their minor daughter's abortion decision, leaving her to go through the painful and scary process alone."

"Abortion is legal in Arizona up to 15 weeks, and we have commonsense safety precautions to protect girls and women. It's reckless to lose those safety precautions just to expand abortion beyond what most voters support," added Dahlgren.

Ballotpedia indicated that the Prop. 139 is one of several statewide ballot measures pertaining to abortion that has been certified for the general election ballot this year. Colorado, Florida, Missouri, New York, and South Dakota will similarly test voters' willingness to protect unborn human babies.

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'Pure evil': Nurse pleads guilty to murdering multiple patients and attempting to kill at least 19 more



Heather Pressdee of Natrona Heights, Pennsylvania, worked at over 11 rehabilitation clinics between 2018 and 2023. She consistently got fired or had to resign on account of concerns over her abusive behavior toward staff and patients.

Pennsylvania's Office of the Attorney General conducted an investigation after receiving a referral about a patient under Pressdee's care in late 2022. It soon became clear that she wasn't just abusing patients — Pressdee was murdering them.

To avoid the death penalty, Pressdee, 41, has pleaded guilty to three counts of first-degree murder and 19 counts of criminal attempt to commit murder. She will, however, die in prison as a Butler County judge sentenced the killer nurse to three life sentences for the three confirmed murders plus 380-760 years of consecutive incarceration for her other murder attempts.

"The defendant used her position of trust as a means to poison patients who depended on her for care," Pennsylvania Attorney General Michelle Henry said in statement Thursday. "This plea and life sentence will not bring back the lives lost, but it will ensure Heather Pressdee never has another opportunity to inflict further harm. I offer my sincere sympathy to all who have suffered at this defendant's hands."

Pressdee's victims, who were spread over four counties at five different facilities, include Alice Stewart, Ann Victain, Betty Hutchison, Betty McQueeney, Elmer Allbee, Gerald Shrum Sr., Irene Simons, Purple Heart recipient Jack Rogers, James Bartoe, James Fair, Joseph Campbell, Louise Skinner, Marguerite Laskovich, Marianne Bower, Mary Colwell, Nicholas Cymbol, Norman Hendrickson, Ruth Erikson, Sandra Lincoln, and Sherry Stilitino. Their ages were 43-104.

Victims (Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office)

Blaze News previously reported that the victims had been at Concordia at Rebecca Residence; Belair Healthcare and Rehabilitation; Quality Life Services Chicora; Premier Armstrong Rehabilitation and Nursing Center; and Sunnyview Rehabilitation and Nursing Center — all locations where Pressdee served as a registered nurse.

Investigators indicated the killer nurse would load her victims up with fatal doses of insulin during overnight shifts when there were few staff members on hand and "often took steps to ensure her victims would expire prior to shift change so that they wouldn't be sent to the hospital where her scheme could be discovered through medical testing."

In the event that victims appeared as though they might survive, Pressdee took additional measures to snuff them out.

According to the criminal complaint, when insulin failed to kill one victim whom Pressdee later told investigators "needed to die," she administered a syringe full of air into the victim's catheter to create a lethal air embolism.

Pressdee appears to have developed a taste for killing after dropping out of the nursing program at the Community College of Allegheny County and becoming a veterinary technician. She later told investigators that during her 14 years providing "critical animal care," her duties included euthanizing animals.

The murderer later finished her nursing degree then went to work treating human beings like lesser animals.

A number of Pressdee's text messages to her mother that were detailed in the complaint hint at a murderous mentality, such as when she wrote:

  • "I'm gonna murder already" on June 10, 2022;
  • "If you get like this you will get pillow therapy," referencing a patient on June 26, 2022;
  • "She's gonna die!!!!" on July 5, 2022;
  • "I drugged him already and I don't know how he is awake" on Sept. 6, 2022;
  • "I'm going to kill this bitch on the phone" on Oct. 17, 2022;
  • "She could be dead, she hasn't made a noise since 9 and I'm not checking on her," adding later on Dec. 7, 2022, "Well she's alive and she may die now";
  • "Whatever I'm gonna stab a bitch today" on Jan. 21, 2023; and
  • "But I may kill this resident" on May 12, 2023.

In court, Phil DiLucente, Pressdee's defense attorney, attempted to humanize the murderous nurse, reported WTAE-TV.

"Let me just say this. There is not all bad in everyone. And you could see at the end, she was remorseful," said DiLucente. "There was a tear in her eyes, and some folks could see up in the jury box from the press that I handed her a handkerchief to wipe her tears away. So, at the end of the day, we're all human, and this is a very, very tragic — a tragic case."

Family members of the victims weren't fooled by the attorney's last-ditch effort and the killer's crocodile tears.

One relative told the judge, "She's not sick. She's not insane. She's evil personified."

Another victim's granddaughter told Pressdee, "You are not a nurse, you are a black mark on the nursing profession."

"She's pure evil," Melinda Brown, sister of victim Nicholas Cymbol, told WTAE. "There's no justice for this. We'll get justice when she meets her maker."

Elizabeth Simons Ozella, the daughter of victim Irene Simons said, "I'll never forgive her for what she did. We're angry and hurt that she disguised herself as a caring nurse."

"She took someone from this earth that she had no right to take," continued Ozella, "and she played God when she didn't have that right."

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Bill Maher stuns his crowd by admitting abortion is effectively 'murder' — then offers merciless reason to allow it



Comedian Bill Maher recently stunned the audience of his HBO show "Real Time" by admitting that abortion is murder. In an apparent effort to win back the crowd and signal his commitment to radical progressive doctrine, Maher subsequently offered a profoundly antihuman reason for why this particular variety of murder should be permitted.

Maher spoke Friday with British columnist Gillian Tett and journalist Piers Morgan about the medical slaughter of the unborn. Morgan emphasized that "America is not such an outlier" in terms of its majority resistance to the legalization of unchecked abortion.

"There are many countries in Europe where it is completely illegal to have an abortion: Poland, Malta, you know, places like Andorra," said Morgan. "And if you look at Germany and France and countries like that, it can be 10, 12 weeks is the term limit that you're allowed to have an abortion illegally. So America is not such an outlier."

"I think a lot of Americans on the left do think that this is somehow a really unique American problem or an issue that only pertains to them in terms of the legality of abortions. Actually, compared to Europe, it's not massively dissimilar," added the Briton.

Tett weighed in with the suggestion that the "idea [Americans] are fighting an election around this issue seems to be just strange. Back to the 19th century."

"None of you believe it's murder," responded Maher. "You know, that's why I don't understand the 15-week thing or the — Trump's plan [to] leave it to the states. You mean, so killing babies is okay in some states?"

Maher was apparently prickled by Trump's proposed solution.

Last week, former President Donald Trump suggested in a video statement that following the U.S. Supreme Court's 2022 Dobbs decision overruling Roe v. Wade, "We have abortion where everybody wanted it from a legal standpoint."

The Republican front-runner further intimated that contra a nationwide law on abortion, the threat of which might adversely impact his success in November, the best way forward would be for individual states to "determine by vote or legislation, or perhaps both, and whatever they decided must be the law of the land."

"Like, I can respect the absolutist position. I really can," continued Maher. "I scold the left when they say, 'Oh, you know what? They just hate women. People who aren't ... pro-choice.'"

Maher underscored that pro-life activists "don't hate women. [Leftists] just made that up. They think it's murder, and it kind of is."

The comedian's recognition that abortion entails the claiming of an innocent human life brought a hush over the room.

While his audience may not have been accustomed to such a striking admission, Maher's acknowledgement is hardly novel, even among his peers.

In his 2017 Netflix comedy special, Louis C.K. said, "People hate abortion protesters. 'They're so shrill and awful.' But they think babies are being murdered."

C.K. quipped, "I don't think it's killing a baby, though. I mean, it's a little like killing a baby. It's 100% killing a baby. It's totally killing a whole baby."

After effectively admitting what abortion entails, C.K. elicited uproarious applause with the additions, "But I think women should be allowed to kill babies," and abortion "is the last line of defense against s***ty people in the species."

Maher, like C.K., similarly appealed to eugenicist rhetoric in his brief defense of abortion, insinuating that it amounts to a check on population growth.

Noting that abortion "kind of is" murder, Maher said, "I'm just okay with that. I am. I mean there's 8 billion people in the world. I'm sorry, we won't miss you. That's my position on that. What? ... Is that not your position if you're pro-choice?"

While Piers Morgan feigned surprise over Maher's remark, the self-described Catholic indicated to the HBO host that he held the same position.

Bill Maher openly admits the Left's real position on abortion:\n\n"They think it's murder. And it kind of is. And I'm just okay with that. I am. There's 8 billion people in the world. I'm sorry, we won't miss you. That's my position on that."
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While Maher appeared to cite the estimated global population as justification for abortion, global fertility figures would suggest more, not fewer humans, are desperately needed.

Blaze News recently reported on a new peer-reviewed study published in the Lancet that revealed fertility rates have declined in all countries and territories since 1950 and that "human civilization is rapidly converging on a sustained low-fertility reality."

For a population to maintain stability and replenish itself without a massive influx of foreign nationals, it requires a fertility rate of 2.1. By the end of this century, the global fertility rate is expected to drop to 1.59, according to the study.

China aborted nearly a half-billion children since 1980 under its one-child policy and is now suffering a demographic crisis. Like China, now desperately trying to boost its birth rate, the U.S. and the rest of the world may soon come to miss those persons whose killings Maher and others are keen to dismiss.

Pro-life activist Kristan Hawkins, the president of Students for Life of America, said of Maher's comments, "This is THE question around abortion — do all humans have equal rights & value or don't they? If you are pro-choice, you should be man enough to admit abortion is murder. At least @billmaher is a honest pro-abortionist and isn't willing to deny science to justify his belief."

Legal scholar Robert P. George, the sixth McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University, stated, "Extraordinary candor. Shocking and indeed chilling, to be sure, that Bill Maher acknowledges that abortion is (or 'kind of is') murder and endorses it anyway. But he's no science denier. He's willing to look the brutal reality of what abortion is right in the face ... and own it."

Minnesota state Rep. Walter Hudson (R) similarly expressed an appreciation for Maher's willingness to admit to a central fact in the abortion debate, writing, "It may be morally abhorrent. But it's at least morally consistent, and enables us to have a real conversation. No more evading what we're actually talking about. Let's now talk about 73 million legalized murders worldwide each year."

Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) tweeted, "'You're not supposed to say the quiet part out loud.'"

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Louisiana couple sentenced for allowing their severely autistic daughter to rot to death on their couch



A Louisiana couple has finally been brought to justice for killing their severely autistic 36-year-old daughter, Lacey Ellen Fletcher — found "melted" into a couch and covered in excrement, sores, and maggots.

The victim's parents, Sheila and Clay Fletcher, pleaded guilty to manslaughter last month. On Wednesday, an East Feliciana Parish judge decided it was the couple's turn to rot for years in one place.

The sickening scene

Lacey Fletcher's emaciated remains were discovered in January 2022, fused by rotten skin to her parents' living room couch in Slaughter, Louisiana.

Blaze News previously reported that East Feliciana Parish coroner Dr. Ewell Dewitt Bickham III figured the woman's 96-pound body had been been stuck there for well over a decade, making for the kind of scene "you make horror movies about."

"When I first walked in the house, it smelled of feces, fecal material, however you want to put that politely, it stunk. And when I got to the body, the individual was basically sitting in a hole, filled with liquid stool and urine," Bickham told WAFB-TV. "It's the worst form of medical neglect I've ever seen. I don't know any other adjectives or adverbs to add to that."

The Daily Mail obtained forensic pathologist Dana Troxclair's autopsy report, which indicated the victim had "polarizable fibers (most likely fibers from the couch) and maggots embedded in the exposed surface of the bones."

Fletcher likely was infested with the maggots while still alive.

"There was no evidence of decomposition at the time of the autopsy; therefore, it was determined that the maggots were present prior to death," wrote Troxclair.

Extra to the maggots and excrement, authorities indicated Fletcher had sores all over her body, including several ulcers on her underside, reported the Advocate.

Bickham determined that the cause of death was "acute medical neglect." This neglect "led to chronic malnutrition, acute starvation, immobility, acute ulcer formation, osteomyelitis which is bone infection, which led finally to sepsis."

The victim had not been to the doctor in at least 20 years. Sheila Fletcher, who had been away on a weekend trip with her husband the weekend the victim died, reportedly told police that Lacey Fletcher did not need to go to the doctor because "she was never sick."

The ghoulish parents

Sheila and Clay Fletcher later claimed that their daughter, who was reportedly diagnosed with "severe" Asperger's and social anxiety, was of "sound mind to make her own type of decisions."

Under this pretense, they apparently went about their lives while their daughter rotted in a pile of feces right next to Sheila Fletcher's recliner in front of the family television.

On May 2, 2022, shortly after Sheila Fletcher resigned her post as town alderman, the couple was indicted for second-degree murder in their daughter's death.

Their trial was set to begin in June 2023; however, District Judge Kathryn Jones dismissed the indictments, citing defective language in the charging affidavits.

East and West Feliciana Parish District Attorney Sam D'Aquilla re-charged the couple shortly thereafter.

Facing the prospect of life in prison without parole, Sheila and Clay Fletcher withdrew their not-guilty pleas ahead of their trial, which was scheduled for last month, and formally agreed to plead guilty to manslaughter.

Blaze News noted that the couple's defense attorney Steven Moore said, "They were negligent, yes. It is clear they were negligent. They loved her to death — that is the true statement with the Fletchers. They loved their daughter to death."

The sentencing

After hearing over six hours of witness testimony Wednesday, Judge Kathryn Jones said, "Of all the things I can say about this case, the one thing that keeps coming to mind is that Clay and Sheila Fletcher continually chose the path of least resistance when it came to the care of their daughter."

Jones did not buy the parents' claim that Lacey Fletcher was of "sound mind" to make her own decisions, stressing it was their responsibility to seek help on the victim's behalf.

"This was a tragedy. The truth is that Lacey laid on a couch and slowly died because she got no medical or mental health care," said Judge Jones.

Clay Fletcher, who wept along with his wife in court, suggested that his victim's "world closed in on her gradually because of her phobias, fears, and social anxieties. The couch was her sanctuary. It was her comfort zone," reported WBRZ-TV.

Jones ultimately imposed a 40-year sentence on both Clay and Sheila Fletcher Wednesday, but suspended 20 years each, reported the Advocate.

The judge also required that both killers serve five years of probation upon their release.

West Feliciana District Attorney Sam D'Aquilla told the New York Post, "We respect the judge's decision. If you had a horse that was in the stall behind your house, and you go back there and the flesh is just gone from its body, and you can see bones exposed. … You wouldn't even treat your animal like that."

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Documents show Planned Parenthood agreed to swap baby parts for intellectual property rights: Report



Planned Parenthood entered into a "biological material transfer agreement" with the University of California, San Diego, whereby Planned Parenthood would transfer human body parts in exchange for intellectual property rights over patents resulting from subsequent experiments, according to a report from the Center for Medical Progress.

The CMP — a pro-life activist organization David Daleiden founded — said it obtained the documents through a public records request.

According to the agreement, the regional abortion outfit — then called the Planned Parenthood of San Diego and Riverside Counties — would provide "certain proprietary biological materials" to investigators at the university "for the purpose of deriving cell lines from and determining gene expression, genomic, and epigenomic profiles of the Materials."

The "proprietary biological materials" are clearly defined in the agreement as "fetal and placental tissue," otherwise known as human baby parts.

The agreement — which was made and went into effect on May 1, 2009 — specifies that the university cannot use the baby body parts "for the development of any commercial product, including drug screening or development for commercial purposes or on behalf of any commercial entity."

Further, the contract stresses the human remains are for "investigational use only in laboratory animals or in vitro experiments" and are not to be used in humans.

Per the terms of the agreement, PPSD would acquire "all right, title and interest in patents and patent applications and other intellectual property rights relating to the Material" in exchange for the remains.

A 2010-2011 email chain between Planned Parenthood and the university, similarly obtained by the pro-life group via a public records request, contains plans to set up a quarterly "Planned Parenthood/UCSD Research Collaboration Meeting"; to "share on samples recently collected"; and "questions about payment to the residency program."

Planned Parenthood has partnered with the UC San Diego for more than three decades, operating the Ryan Residency Training Program and providing the university's Complex Family Planning Fellowship program with a clinical training site.

While the initial agreement was between the university and PPSD, it was amended in June 2014 to reflect that the regional abortion outfit had changed its name to Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest.

The Center for Medical Progress obtained more recent UCSD communications that allegedly reference the agreement.

Emails from January 2017 appear to reference the body parts agreement as well as another contract.

A 2020 email chain reveals concerns about the origin of "fetal human fibroblasts" that were used to generate human induced pluripotent stem cells for use in the study of genetic and epigenetic stability.

In one reply, an apparent researcher notes that the fibroblasts were "derived from human fetal livers that were used to generate immune system humanized mice."

Another person identifying as "more of an attorney than a scientist" can be seen asking for a "purchase agreement with an [Advanced Bioscience Resource] or an incoming MTA type agreement" and stressing the "need to be especially careful that we have permission to transfer."

According to the Daleiden's organization, the 2009 agreement remains in effect today.

Neither Planned Parenthood nor UCSD on Friday immediately responded to Blaze News' request for comment on the documents.

Daleiden and his pro-life group have faced repercussions over their past efforts to expose Planned Parenthood's alleged side business.

In 2015, Daleiden went undercover as a biotechnology representative interested in acquiring fetal tissue for research and recorded his conversations with staff members from Planned Parenthood. The videos he took while under cover generated significant uproar.

The Center for Medical Progress posted a video on July 14, 2015, showing a senior director of medical services at Planned Parenthood, Deborah Nucatola, state casually over wine and lunch, "We've been very good at getting heart, lung, liver, because we know that, 'I'm not gonna crush that part, I'm gonna basically crush below, I'm gonna crush above, and I'm gonna see if I can get it all intact."

"I'd say a lot of people want liver. And for that reason, most providers will do this case under ultrasound guidance, so they'll know where they're putting their forceps," continued Nucatola. "The kind of rate-limiting step of the procedure is calvarium. Calvarium — the head — is basically the biggest part."

Nucatola, who was later reprimanded, indicates in the video that body parts could run interested parties anywhere from $30 to $100 per specimen.

Cecile Richards, the former president of Planned Parenthood, stressed in the aftermath of the video's release, "Our donation programs — like any other high-quality health care providers' — follow all laws and ethical guidelines," reported the New York Times.

Despite giving Planned Parenthood a black eye, the abortion outfit sued Daleiden in 2016.

In 2019, a San Francisco jury reportedly awarded Planned Parenthood over $2.2 million in damages. Daleiden and his group appealed, claiming their work was constitutionally-protected journalism. While they largely lost their appeal, the court overturned the jury's verdict that the pro-life group had violated the Federal Wiretap Act by secretly recording their conversations with Planned Parenthood employees.

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Transvestite who butchered cab driver smirks at victim's family, claims victimhood after getting off the hook for murder



A hulking transvestite butchered a beloved Portland taxi driver in an unprovoked Easter Sunday attack last year.

Despite refusing to take respnsibility for the bloodletting and claiming victimhood, Moses Lopez managed to dodge a heftier sentence this week because Mike Schmidt, Multnomah County's leftist district attorney, approved a plea deal downgrading his murder charge to manslaughter.

What's the background?

Lopez went partying in downtown Portland on April 9, just days after being arrested and charged with menacing two employees of a Coos County Bi-Mart, trespassing, and weapons charges. When the fun came to an end, the LGBT activist called 911 and requested a ride home. The Oregonian reported that the operator told the transvestite to instead call a cab.

Radio Cab driver Reese Lawhon, 43, obliged the transvestite, picking him up outside a donut shop. While there was initially some suggestion that the dispatcher had entered the wrong address, KGB-TV indicated Lopez had fouled up the instructions. Despite the miscommunication, Lawhon, a Texan with the company for 10 years, noticed the error, turned around under a highway overpass, and began to correct course.

Blaze News previously reported that Darin Campbell, a spokesman for the cab company, noted on the basis of footage taken inside the cab that when Lawhon "went to put the new address in his GPS, the passenger stabbed him in the neck."

KATU-TV reported that police were called at 6:41 p.m. to the scene of a cab stopped in the middle of traffic at the intersection of Southeast Washington Street and Southeast Water Avenue. Lawhon was found inside, slouched over the steering wheel with his neck cut open. Lopez was apprehended nearby shortly thereafter, covered in the victim's blood.

First responders reportedly saw Lopez "drop a pair of brass knuckles with an attached blade on the ground."

Ginger Lawhon, the victim's mother, was the last person to speak to him, reported KATU.

"He returned the call saying he was working and would call later to visit. He never did," said Ginger Lawhon. "The world itself has been transformed and made deficient."

Radio Cab noted in a statement upon learning of learning of the grisly slaying that Lawhon had been a "great person who came to work hoping to have a great Easter Sunday shift."

An unrepentant killer

Lopez was initially charged with second-degree murder and the unlawful use of a weapon. He also faced charges in a separate case for threatening two Bi-Mart employees, for which he skipped out on the first court date.

Under the sweetheart plea deal Multnomah County DA Mike Schmidt approved, Lopez pleaded guilty to charges of first-degree manslaughter and the unlawful use of a weapon. He also saw his other case dismissed altogether per the terms of the agreement.

The victim's sisters noted in a statement that they accepted the plea deal only so that their elderly parents would be spared from reliving the horror of what Lopez subjected their son to, reported KATU.

"When Moses gets out in 20 years, assuming she's still alive, and I hope she's not, I look forward to testifying against her, whatever senseless crime she commits next, because she will," said Claire Pearce, one of the victim's sisters.

"We tell our kids so many times that monsters aren't under the bed or in the closet, but it's a lie," Pearce told the court Wednesday. "Moses Lopez is a monster and will always be one."

Lopez grinned when Pearce characterized him as a monster, reported the Oregonian.

Lopez attempted to cast himself in court as a victim, complaining that the evening he butchered Lawhon, he had lost his debit card, had to listen to static on the dispatcher's radio, and wasn't taken directly to his desired destination.

Lopez further suggested that he feared for his safety on account of being a transvestite in a predominantly leftist city.

"I ended up in a very scary part of town where I was genuinely afraid," said the killer who traveled around with bladed brass knuckles. "I refuse to apologize for the lack of help that I so desperately needed."

After displacing blame, the killer told Lawhon's grieving family members, "I want you to know that I accept the way that you feel."

"The excuses that were made in the courtroom today for [Lopez's] actions are disgraceful" said Campbell, who underscored that Lawhon would have helped the transvestite if simply asked as opposed to brutally stabbed to death.

"Our opinion is she is a homicidal mentally ill individual who should never be set free ever again," continued Campbell. "The Radio Cab management team that unfortunately had to see the video of the murder of Reese Lawhon are traumatized, I being one of them."

A Multnomah County Circuit Court judge ultimately sentenced Lopez Wednesday to 22 years in state prison.

The DA's office said in a statement, "The DA’s Office thanks PPB Detective Shaye Samora and the officers who assisted with this case. DA's Office staff also acknowledge the victim's family, as well as his friends and colleagues at Radio Cab, and hope that today’s sentencing brings some closure that will allow the healing process to continue."

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Poll: Over half of Democrats support the slaughter of unborn babies with Down syndrome



A new poll has revealed that over half of Democrats support lethal discrimination against babies diagnosed with Down syndrome.

The latest Marist poll commissioned by the Knights of Columbus revealed this week that 58% of Americans surveyed oppose or strongly oppose abortion "because the child will be born with Down Syndrome."

39% of respondents alternatively said they support or strongly support the selective termination of members of that group of human beings previously lumped into the category of "lives not worth living" by the Nazi regime and gleefully targeted for eradication in recent years by other eugenicist nations.

These responses reflect significant changes since 2021, when the annual Knights of Columbus-Marist Poll found that 69% of Americans were against aborting babies with Down syndrome and only 22% signaled support.

Responses this year were even more damning when broken down according to respondents' general views on abortion and political affiliation.

54% of self-described "pro-choice" respondents said they supported the termination of potential politicians, actors, religious role models, and artists on the basis of Down syndrome diagnoses.

Self-identified Democrats were even more supportive of the program — 56% said they supported or strongly supported abortion in cases where the baby has Down syndrome. By way of comparison, only 24% of Republicans signaled support and 39% of self-identified independents expressed support.

Down syndrome or trisomy 21 is a genetic disorder that varies in severity but does not preclude those affected from living long and fulfilling lives. According to the Mayo Clinic, it is caused when abnormal cell division produces an extra full or partial copy of chromosome 21.

Granted the continued need to protect people with Down syndrome, Kansas Rep. Ron Estes (R) re-introduced legislation Thursday that would federally ban physicians from knowingly performing an abortion because a baby received a prenatal diagnosis of trisomy 21.

The "Protecting Individuals with Down Syndrome Act," which has been referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary, notes that the U.S. Supreme Court's Dobbs ruling "correctly affirmed that there is no constitutional right to abort an unborn child and that the Court's prior decision in Roe was not based in the Constitution's text nor was it deeply rooted in the history and tradition of the United States."

Estes' bill also highlights that federal law presently protects people with disabilities from discrimination, including in the provision of medical care.The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, for instance, states, "Disability is a natural part of the human experience and in no way diminishes the right of individuals to participate in or contribute to society."

Estes' bill further underscores that individuals with Down syndrome "are inherently valuable and worthy of dignity and respect. They enrich and strengthen our society in countless ways, including but not limited to by building meaningful relationships, participating in and creating families, learning, and working alongside other Americans."

Despite this understanding, people with Down syndrome are nevertheless targeted for destruction here and abroad.

According to a 2012 study published in the journal Prenatal Diagnosis, the weighted mean abortion rate for babies diagnosed with Down syndrome in the U.S. was 67%.

Joint Economic Committee Republicans estimated in 2022 that 80% more babies with Down syndrome would be born every year absent selective abortion.

The Independent reported that Iceland only sees one or two children with Down syndrome born every year because nearly all expectant mothers on the island who receive a positive prenatal test have their child promptly executed.

H.R. 461 would make it unlawful to kill an unborn baby on the basis of a test or prenatal diagnosis indicating the child has Down syndrome. Additionally, it would prohibit the use of coercion or intimidation to prompt a mother into getting an abortion on the basis of her baby's Down syndrome diagnosis.

"Having one more chromosome should never be validation for ending life, and the Protecting Individuals with Down Syndrome Act protects individuals with disabilities," Estes said in a statement. "This is common-sense legislation that will save precious lives."

The resolution has received support in both chambers of Congress. Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.) will reportedly soon introduce a companion bill in the Senate.

"Every life is created with God-given dignity and potential — no matter how small or how many chromosomes they may have," said Daines. "We are making great strides to build a culture of life in America, but there is more work to be done. Now more than ever it's critical we continue our fight on the federal level to be a voice for the most vulnerable and protect young moms from the dangers of do-it-yourself chemical abortions."

The Knights of Columbus-Marist poll also revealed that 20% of Democratic respondents supported or strongly supported abortion on the basis of the babies' sex. 86% of all respondents indicated they were opposed to sex-selective abortions.

66% of all respondents suggested there should limits placed on when abortion is allowed. 49% of Democrats and 84% of Republicans agreed.

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Democratic congresswoman slammed for claiming Catholics are compelled by their faith to support abortion



Democratic Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut recently attempted to sully the reputation of the late Pope John Paul II and suggest that support among Democrats for the extermination of the unborn was aligned with the moral teachings of the Catholic Church.

The purple-haired congresswoman was subsequently slammed online and confronted with the facts of the Catholic Church's actual teachings about the bloody practice.

In a June 26 statement, DeLauro wrote, "I am a Catholic—baptized, raised, and confirmed. The fundamental tenets of my faith compel me to defend a women’s right to access abortion. I am proudly part of the faithful large majority of US Catholics who support legal protections for abortion access."

This tweet, insinuating majority opinion somehow matters where Catholic teaching is concerned, referenced a much longer statement of principles issued Saturday.

The longer statement, an updated version of a similar pro-abortion credo penned in June 2021, purportedly reflects the thinking of DeLauro and 30 other self-identifying Catholic Democrats in Congress as it pertains to "their support for a woman’s right to choose."

After condemning the Dobbs ruling, which overturned Roe v. Wade, and woefully noting that "five Justices who are or were raised Catholic" played a role in that victory for life, DeLauro indicated that she and the other Democratic representatives claiming Catholicity are "proud" to support legal protections for abortion.

Despite highlighting her support for the legal culling of the unborn, DeLauro maintained that her faith "unfailingly promotes the common good, prioritizes the dignity of every human being, and highlights the need to provide a collective safety net to our most vulnerable."

DeLauro proceeded to quote from "The Catechism of the Catholic Church," an official document that summarizes the main beliefs of the Catholic Church, to make the point that "a human being must always obey the certain judgment of his [or her] conscience," adding that she and the other Democratic representatives claiming Catholicity "regard conscience as both a sacred gift and a responsibility."

DeLauro evidently neglected the various explicit condemnations of abortion in the Catechism, along with its procurement, its provision, and its support. In fact, the document expressly states that those who formally cooperate in an abortion are excommunicated and thereby cut off of from the church.

With scriptural and theological reasons and corroborates also provided, the Catechism states the following :

  • "Human life must be respected and protected absolutely from the moment of conception" (2270);
  • "Since the first century the Church has affirmed the moral evil of every procured abortion. This teaching has not changed and remains unchangeable. Direct abortion, that is to say, abortion willed either as an end or a means, is gravely contrary to the moral law" (2271);
  • "Formal cooperation in an abortion constitutes a grave offense. The Church attaches the canonical penalty of excommunication to this crime against human life" (2272);
  • "The inalienable rights of the person must be recognized and respected by civil society and political authority. These human rights depend neither on single individuals nor on parents; nor do they represent a concession made by society and the state; they belong to human nature and are inherent in the person by virtue of the creative act from which the person took his origin" (2273); and
  • "Since it must be treated from conception as a person, the embryo must be defended in its integrity, cared for, and healed, as far as possible, like any other human being" (2274).

After cherry-picking a rationale for her stance from a document that otherwise stresses the evil of abortion, DeLauro invoked Pope John Paul II, who stressed to Catholics the need for the church to "be a moral force in the broadest sense."

Pope John Paul II was one of the most vociferous opponents of abortion in the 20th Century.

In his papal encyclical "Evangelium Vitae," he reiterated the Second Vatican Council's condemnation of abortion, writing, "taking up the words of the Council and with the same forcefulness I repeat that condemnation in the name of the whole Church, certain that I am interpreting the genuine sentiment of every upright conscience: 'Whatever is opposed to life itself, such as any type of murder, genocide, abortion, euthanasia, or wilful self-destruction, whatever violates the integrity of the human person.'"

With the understanding that abortion was both a product and a sign of a "culture of death," Pope John Paul II noted, "To claim the right to abortion, infanticide and euthanasia, and to recognize that right in law, means to attribute to human freedom a perverse and evil significance: that of an absolute power over others and against others. This is the death of true freedom: 'Truly, truly, I say to you, every one who commits sin is a slave to sin' (Jn 8:34)."

Pope Francis has maintained his predecessors' abhorrence for abortion and has even opined on Democratic Catholics' complicity in its advancement, calling President Joe Biden's support for abortion "incoherent."

CBS News reported that Biden, simultaneously an abortion advocate and a self-described Catholic, recently told a crowd in Maryland, "I'm not big on abortion ... but guess what? Roe V. Wade got it right."

The head of the church to which Biden claims membership has underscored that it is wrong to take a human life, regardless of what age or stage of development it is in, stating, "Getting rid of a human being is like resorting to a contract killer to solve a problem."

"We are victims of the throwaway culture. ... Today [abortion] has become a 'normal' thing," Pope Francis said in an address on September 27, 2021, "a habit that is very bad; it is truly murder."

Like Biden's past remarks on the matter, DeLauro's statement didn't skate pass conservative Catholics unnoticed.

Conservative commentator Liz Wheeler responded to DeLauro's tweet, writing, "The Catholic Church declares abortion a grave moral evil, a mortal sin, rejecting Christ in the baby killed. You can’t be a Catholic in good standing & support abortion. By supporting abortion, you are rejecting Catholicism & Christ. I encourage—& pray—you will go to confession."

Mark Hemingway, senior writer at RealClearInvestigations, tweeted, "I don’t have any idea what 'fundamental' is supposed to mean here, but the literal tenets of her faith say abortion is a serious sin."

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Historian and former White House speechwriter Joshua Charles wrote, "You know who was also a Catholic—baptized, raised, and confirmed? Adolf Hitler. But he utterly repudiated the Faith, and became an apostate in both word and deed. Like you. You don’t get to determine what the Catholic Faith is. Jesus Christ does, through the Church. Repent."

Daily Signal reporter Mary Margaret Olohan stressed, "This is complete BS. Catholicism declares abortion a grave moral evil."

Fr. Ryan Hilderbrand of St. Matthew's Parish in Mt. Vernon, Indiana, tweeted, "Just as she has her areas of competence (in which mine is a voice of ignorance, not expertise), so too my area of competence is the fundamental tenets of the Catholic Faith. The Faith compels one to prevent murder, not facilitate it."

Dr. Thomas Carr, a theologian at the Dominican House of Prayer, highlighted the findings from a 2022 Pew Research Center survey, which found that 70% of American Catholics who attend Mass weekly or more often recognize that "human life begins at conception, so a fetus is a person with rights."

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