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<content:encoded><![CDATA[Rejoicing in the Lord, and giving thanks for his victories, is a command of God’s Word. In fact, not only are we told to rejoice in good times, but always (cf. Phil. 4:4), and not only are we told to give thanks for blessings, but for all things (cf. 1 Thess. 5:18).
And we are in good times right now.
The pro-life movement saw the reversal of Roe vs. Wade three years ago. Last November, we saw election victories that not only advance our cause, but preserve the very tools we need to fight for this cause (freedom of speech, freedom of religion, the right to protest peacefully, and more).
And now we are on the cusp of the greatest victory since Dobbs, namely, the cutting off, by law, of the largest government funding stream for Planned Parenthood and the entire abortion industry.
So we rejoice, and we give thanks.
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Some will decide not to rejoice, however. Dobbs, after all, did not mandate the protection of a single baby. And the Big Beautiful Bill stopped abortion funding for only one year instead of the original provision, which was ten years.
Yes, these facts are to be acknowledged, and yes, we want more. And we will be restless until we get more.
But in that restlessness, in that very justified dissatisfaction, we must yet rejoice, because “Rejoicing in the Lord must be your strength” (Nehemiah 8:10). In that scene from the Book of Nehemiah, the law of the Lord was being read to the people, and they were weeping, realizing how far they were from practicing it.
But they were urged to rejoice, to focus not simply on how far they were from the moral standard. They were not to focus just on the circumstances of their weakness, but on the joy of the Lord, which would give them strength to keep going in life’s spiritual warfare.
So it is with us.
Let’s take the Big Beautiful Bill. Yes, we should be distressed that the funding restriction is only one year instead of ten. But what if it had passed with the ten-year provision? We could have rejoiced in that, or we could have said that ten years in not enough. Why should child-killing be funded in the 11th year? And we would be right.
Let’s take this a step further. Let’s say the law stopped abortion funding permanently. We could rejoice in that, or we could say, Stopping the funding is not enough; we have to stop the killing. And we would be right.
In other words, there is always more to win, more ground to conquer. But the ground that has been conquered is cause for rejoicing.
Consider Dobbs. It does not end abortion, by any means.
In reality, it takes the courts to “neutral,” by saying that there is no constitutional basis for preventing the people and their elected representatives from protecting the unborn.
But what a victory that is.
Think about driving a car. If you are in reverse, how do you get into drive? You have to go through neutral first.
Under Roe, we were in reverse. The Courts were saying we were prohibited from protecting the unborn. Now we are in neutral, with the Courts saying we are permitted to protect the unborn. Obviously, we want to get to drive, where the Courts saying we are required to protect the unborn.
The point is that neutral is better than reverse, and is a big step closer to drive.
Let’s also consider incremental legislation, that protects some babies but not all. Let’s be clear: no abortion is ever justified, for any reason whatsoever. And every baby in the womb is a person deserving of full protection. No government has the right to authorize a single abortion.
So when we see incremental legislation, if it represents as far as a legislative body is willing to go, that is not a limit we are choosing. It is a limit imposed on us.
And the relevant question is not, Are we morally permitted to support this legislation even though it doesn’t protect all the babies? That question can be analyzed in a moral theology classroom.
But we are in a battle to save lives. The more relevant question is this: Do the babies who would be protected by this limited, imperfect law, have a right to be protected right now or not?
If they are persons who have a right to life that does not depend on the consensus of the people, or whether others are protected, then not only are we permitted to implement the law that would protect them, we are required to do so.
And that would be a victory in which we should rejoice.
Indeed, times are good. Times are also evil, because each day, our hearts must be broken, our eyes must weep, over the daily killing of babies.
But rejoicing in the Lord must be our strength, precisely because we do have victories, and we need that strength to win even more.
Rejoice in the Lord and give thanks always!
LifeNews.com Note: Frank Pavone is national director of Priests for Life and the national pastoral director of Rachel’s Vineyard Ministries and the Silent No More Awareness Campaign.
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<description><![CDATA[Planned Parenthood has permanently closed its abortion center on Euclid Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio, citing the recent loss of Title X federal funding. A sign taped to the front door announced the decision, stating the closure was “effective immediately” and blaming the Trump administration for disrupting operations, ABC Cleveland News 5 reported June 30. The note read, “Because […]
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[Planned Parenthood <a href="http://lifenews.com/2025/07/01/cleveland-planned-parenthood-shuts-down-cites-trump-funding-cuts/">has permanently closed its abortion center</a> on Euclid Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio, citing the recent loss of Title X federal funding.
A sign taped to the front door announced the decision, stating the closure was “effective immediately” and blaming the Trump administration for disrupting operations, ABC Cleveland News 5 <a href="https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/planned-parenthood-shuts-down-cleveland-health-center-blames-federal-funding-cuts" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">reported</a> June 30.
The note read, “Because our Title X funds have been withheld, this health center is closed effective immediately. Ongoing attacks from the Trump Administration have disrupted the essential services we provide to the Cleveland Community.”
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Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio issued a statement affirming that the closure “was not made lightly,” noting that the location had operated in the area for more than a decade.
Cleveland Right to Life responded to the news with a July 1 statement thanking “God for the legislators who stood up to the most-evil organization of our time, Planned Parenthood,” Ideastream Public Media <a href="https://www.ideastream.org/health/2025-07-01/trump-administration-cuts-shutter-clevelands-planned-parenthood-residents-worry-whats-to-come?utm_source=chatgpt.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">reported</a>.
While Planned Parenthood has consistently argued that it offers a wide range of reproductive and sexual health care, its involvement in abortion remains central. The loss of Title X funds, which under revised guidelines cannot subsidize abortion providers, has led to a nationwide reshuffling of operations for groups unwilling to separate abortion from other services.
LifeNews Note: Rachel Quackenbush writes for CatholicVote, where this column <a href="https://catholicvote.org/cleveland-planned-parenthood-permanently-closes-title-x-cuts/?mkt_tok=NDI3LUxFUS0wNjYAAAGbbpsJ47XVOyr6rpbByGZ6Us0HRTzLi8Achv-_xdtQyYgl-wi2sabbA86LM9x_0axtFrBPlAN5ENJZ0hJRVxPx3rhWwseTgTkgdokYYn7f2A">originally appeared.</a>
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<description><![CDATA[The State of Arkansas awarded $2 million to pregnancy resource centers during its 2024-2025 fiscal year, according to the state transparency website. Last year the Arkansas Legislature appropriated $2 million in grants to promote maternal wellness and provide material support to women with unplanned pregnancies. Pregnancy resource centers, maternity homes, adoption agencies, and similar charities can apply for […]
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[The State of Arkansas awarded $2 million to pregnancy resource centers during its 2024-2025 fiscal year, <a href="http://transparency.arkansas.gov/">according to the state transparency website</a>.
Last year <a href="https://familycouncil.org/?p=28403">the Arkansas Legislature appropriated</a> $2 million in grants to promote maternal wellness and provide material support to women with unplanned pregnancies.
Pregnancy resource centers, maternity homes, adoption agencies, and similar charities can apply for state grant funding, but Arkansas does not fund abortionists or their affiliates.
<a href="https://familycouncil.org/?p=23966">Since 2022,</a> Family Council has worked with the Arkansas Legislature and the governor to <a href="https://familycouncil.org/?p=28403">secure funding every year for pregnancy resource centers</a>. These state-funded grants have helped support <a href="https://familycouncil.org/?p=30989">dozens of organizations that assist women and children in Arkansas</a>.
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Arkansas’ fiscal year ended on Monday. All told, 35 organizations received funding in the 2024-2025 budget cycle. That’s something to celebrate!
Pregnancy resource centers give women real options besides abortion. That is why <a href="https://familycouncil.org/?p=30162">many states provide these organizations with funding</a>.
As we always say, it’s important to pass laws to prohibit abortion, but we also need to help women with unplanned pregnancies.
This year Family Council was able to <a href="https://familycouncil.org/?p=30459">work with lawmakers</a> to secure another $2 million in grant money for pregnancy help organizations in the state’s 2025-2026 budget cycle. We expect the State of Arkansas to begin accepting grant applications later this year.
Below is a list of pregnancy help organizations and the amount of grant funding each received from the State of Arkansas between July 1, 2024, and June 30, 2025.
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<td class="has-text-align-right" data-align="right">$50,000.00</td>
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<td class="has-text-align-left" data-align="left">ST JOSEPHS HELPERS OF PULASKI COUNTY</td>
<td class="has-text-align-left" data-align="left">ARKANSAS PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER</td>
<td class="has-text-align-right" data-align="right">$50,000.00</td>
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<td class="has-text-align-left" data-align="left">OPTIONS A PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER INC</td>
<td class="has-text-align-left" data-align="left">OPTIONS</td>
<td class="has-text-align-right" data-align="right">$50,000.00</td>
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<td class="has-text-align-left" data-align="left">ABUNDANT LIFE PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER</td>
<td class="has-text-align-left" data-align="left"></td>
<td class="has-text-align-right" data-align="right">$49,876.00</td>
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<td class="has-text-align-left" data-align="left">1ST CHOICE PREGNANCY MEDICAL CENTER</td>
<td class="has-text-align-right" data-align="right">$49,850.00</td>
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<td class="has-text-align-left" data-align="left"></td>
<td class="has-text-align-right" data-align="right">$49,349.04</td>
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<td class="has-text-align-left" data-align="left">DISCERNMENT LLC</td>
<td class="has-text-align-left" data-align="left"></td>
<td class="has-text-align-right" data-align="right">$49,185.00</td>
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<td class="has-text-align-left" data-align="left">ACTS OF HOPE INC</td>
<td class="has-text-align-left" data-align="left">ACTS OF HOPE, PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER</td>
<td class="has-text-align-right" data-align="right">$48,776.00</td>
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<td class="has-text-align-left" data-align="left">CHOICES PREGNANCY RESOURCE CLINIC INC</td>
<td class="has-text-align-left" data-align="left"></td>
<td class="has-text-align-right" data-align="right">$45,048.00</td>
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<td class="has-text-align-left" data-align="left">ASSEMBLIES OF GOD FAMILY SERVICES</td>
<td class="has-text-align-left" data-align="left">COMPACT FAMILY SERVICES</td>
<td class="has-text-align-right" data-align="right">$44,273.00</td>
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<td class="has-text-align-left" data-align="left">PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER FOR SOUTHWEST</td>
<td class="has-text-align-left" data-align="left"></td>
<td class="has-text-align-right" data-align="right">$43,700.00</td>
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<td class="has-text-align-left" data-align="left">HOPES FIRST CHOICE PREGNANCY RESOURCE CE</td>
<td class="has-text-align-left" data-align="left"></td>
<td class="has-text-align-right" data-align="right">$26,415.00</td>
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<td class="has-text-align-left" data-align="left">CENTRAL BAPTIST ASSOCIATION</td>
<td class="has-text-align-left" data-align="left">BREATH OF LIFE PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER</td>
<td class="has-text-align-right" data-align="right">$26,249.00</td>
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<td class="has-text-align-left" data-align="left">ARKANSAS PREGNANCY NETWORK</td>
<td class="has-text-align-left" data-align="left"></td>
<td class="has-text-align-right" data-align="right">$20,423.82</td>
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<td class="has-text-align-left" data-align="left">Total</td>
<td class="has-text-align-left" data-align="left"></td>
<td class="has-text-align-right" data-align="right">$1,997,081.71
 
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<description><![CDATA[In the debate over whether individuals can enforce rights under laws passed via the Spending Clause of Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution, one significant truth clearly emerges from the recent Supreme Court decision in Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic: states have the authority to defund Planned Parenthood through Medicaid, and there is […]
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[In the debate over whether individuals can enforce rights under laws passed via the Spending Clause of Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution, one significant truth clearly emerges from the recent Supreme Court decision in <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/23-1275_e2pg.pdf">Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic</a>: states have the authority to defund Planned Parenthood through Medicaid, and there is nothing Abortion, Inc. can do about it.
<h3>Medicaid’s Purpose and South Carolina’s Action</h3>
Sixty years ago, Congress created Medicaid to provide health care services to those who Congress deemed at the time to be unable to pay for basic health care needs. In one of the House Reports on the issue, Congress noted that Medicaid’s financial partnership between the federal government and the states was created because “these people are the most needy in the country and it is appropriate for medical care costs to be met, first, for these people.” Those most qualified for Medicaid dollars were individuals Congress declared as “categorically needy.”
In Medina, the Supreme Court just reviewed a case involving South Carolina’s decision to exercise its authority under the Medicaid funding partnership to remove Planned Parenthood from its list of “qualified” providers. Planned Parenthood operates two facilities in South Carolina and claims to provide a host of services at each facility for individuals who qualify for Medicaid coverage. In what can only be described as the understatement of the year, the Supreme Court noted that these two facilities “also perform abortions.”
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Notably, South Carolina has at least 140 other medical facilities that qualify to provide Medicaid services and at which any South Carolinian can obtain medical care, in addition to a host of private medical facilities that would also accept Medicaid patients throughout the state. In short, removing Planned Parenthood from the list of qualified providers in South Carolina would not even cause a blip on the radar for Medicaid recipients in the state.
<h3>South Carolina’s Rationale</h3>
Realizing it could continue to provide quality and widespread care to those who need it, without skipping a beat, South Carolina announced in 2018 that it was removing Planned Parenthood from the list of qualified providers under its Medicaid program. The reason?
South Carolina state law prohibits the use of public funds for abortion, and even Medicaid dollars not directly designated for abortion indirectly subsidizes Planned Parenthood’s abortion activities, which violates state law and the ethical standards of its citizens.
In other words, South Carolina made the prudent and principled decision that it refused to give its taxpayers’ hard-earned dollars to an entity designed for nothing more than the murder of innocent children in the womb. Good for South Carolina. More states should follow its prudent path. So, too, should the United States Congress.
<h3>Protecting Public Trust and Upholding Ethics</h3>
By excluding abortion-related providers, South Carolina advanced its interests in promoting life and respecting the deeply held convictions of its citizens. This decision isn’t merely a matter of policy preferences; it reflects a bedrock principle: taxpayer funds must never subsidize activities that violate federal laws and basic human decency. Because Planned Parenthood is not only Abortion, Inc., and the largest murderer that has ever existed (in corporate form) — it is also the purveyor of the most grotesque and illegal trafficking of human body parts imaginable.
The state plainly has discretion and a compelling interest in defunding such an entity. In fact, Liberty Counsel <a href="https://lc.org/PDFs/250210Brief-AmicusLibertyCounsel(Medinav.PannedParenthood).pdf">filed</a> an amicus brief in this case noting the law’s language allows for states to disqualify providers that engage in unethical and illegal practices, in which Planned Parenthood has been credibly implicated.
As Liberty Counsel’s amicus brief demonstrated, Planned Parenthood officials have been caught on tape discussing the sale of fetal tissue, haggling over baby body part prices, and explaining how abortion procedures could be altered to ensure intact organs for sale. And, to add insult to injury, some of these conversations took place while the abortionist casually drank wine and ate a salad, as if the discussion of dismembering living children was just business as usual. Such conduct is not only a flagrant violation of federal law but is also simply abhorrent.
Each state has the right— and indeed a duty — to ensure that its Medicaid dollars do not subsidize an organization engaged in such inhumane and unlawful practices. In fact, given that Medicaid is a taxpayer-funded program, public trust in its integrity is paramount. South Carolina has determined that funneling state funds to Planned Parenthood — an entity implicated in the unlawful sale of fetal tissue — undermines the program’s integrity and betrays the trust of the citizens who fund it.
South Carolina reserves the right to ensure that its citizens’ taxpayer dollars are not distributed to organizations with a moral compass so lacking that it permits them to dismember living children for profit and describe it to others as if the subject of their abhorrent, grotesque, and unlawful practices was not another living human being. One would search in vain for a more compelling reason to exclude an organization from Medicaid’s program.
<h3>A Precedent for Other States and Congress</h3>
The Supreme Court’s ruling in Medina empowers other states to also cut off Planned Parenthood funding. Planned Parenthood is undeserving of taxpayer funds, and states now have a potent weapon in their arsenal to defund Abortion, Inc.
Disqualifying Planned Parenthood as a Medicaid qualified provider would be a significant blow to the abortion giant and deprive it of essential taxpayer-funded financial calories. Then, if Congress would follow the lead of South Carolina and deprive Planned Parenthood of federal tax dollars, perhaps we could impose on it the same fate it has unconscionably imposed on millions of babies.
Starve the beast — defund Planned Parenthood.
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[“This bill includes many critical pro-middle class, pro-family, pro-life provisions. Sec. 71113 of H.R. 1, for instance, prevents the abortion industry from receiving federal Medicaid funds for one 
year—a significant victory for women, children, and federal taxpayers. Rather than funding the multibillion-dollar abortion industry, which commits child decapitation, dismemberment and starvation under the guise of ‘health care,’ this provision enables the federal government to direct its Medicaid dollars to genuine, life-affirming health care options.
“Taxpayers should not be forced to subsidize organizations like Planned Parenthood—Child Abuse Incorporated—, which raked in $1.5 billion in Medicaid reimbursements over three 
years while going to extraordinary lengths to ignore, trivialize, and cover up the one thousand battered baby-victims it kills every day and the ten million it has killed since 
1970.
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“Let’s not forget that Planned Parenthood was founded by Margaret Sanger, a eugenicist and a racist who devoted an entire chapter in her book, ‘The Pivot of 
Civilization,’ to what she called ‘The Cruelty of Charity’ and argued that care for impoverished, disenfranchised women, including women of color, especially pregnant 
women, was ‘cruel.’
“One method of abortion Planned Parenthood offers is the so-called abortion pill—mifepristone—baby poison that kills the child by starving the child to death. The Ethics and Public Policy Center’s report released two months ago found that the abortion pill that is used in over 60% of all abortions procured in the U.S. seriously harms women and that almost 11% of the women who take mifepristone experience serious side effects including sepsis, infection, hemorrhaging and other serious adverse events.”
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<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2025 19:22:57 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[On Mother’s Day weekend in 1972, the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) unleashed one of the most grotesque chapters in abortion history: a mass experimental abortion event that permanently maimed women and killed their unborn children using a crude, violent device called the super coil. It happened in Philadelphia, and it was no accident. It was […]
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[On Mother’s Day weekend in 1972, the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) unleashed one of the most grotesque chapters in abortion history: a mass experimental abortion event that permanently maimed women and killed their unborn children using a crude, violent device called the super coil. It happened in Philadelphia, and it was no accident. It was calculated, coordinated, and funded by the world’s largest abortion syndicate, which until July 4, 2025, had received hundreds of millions of US taxpayer dollars.
This event wasn’t just a medical tragedy; it was a brutal and bloody betrayal of women, a violation of every ethical standard in medicine, and a direct assault on human dignity. That Planned Parenthood carried out human experimentation on poor and vulnerable women in the name of advancing the “efficacy” of abortion should have ended public funding for the abortion industry right then and there. But here we are, decades later, giving them hundreds of millions of tax dollars a year, the Big Beautiful Bill has finally stopped funding the carnage.
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The super coil wasn’t medicine. It was a weapon.
Invented by Harvey Karman, an abortion zealot with a Ph.D. in psychology, not a medical degree, and a criminal record for performing illegal abortions, the device was nothing more than tightly wound plastic filaments, often made of polyethylene. These sharp, spring-loaded coils wrapped in seaweed were inserted blindly into the uterus using a cannula.
In theory, once inside, the seaweed would dissolve, and the coils were then meant to “pop open” into jagged spirals. They sliced and irritated the uterine lining, shredded the baby, and dug into endometrial tissue. They hoped that this trauma would cause hemorrhaging and induce an abortion. The coils had no guidance system, no safety controls, no capacity for regulated expansion, and no regard for human anatomy. This was not surgical precision. This was blunt-force trauma administered from inside the womb.
Planned Parenthood called this barbarity: reproductive care.
The coils were neither sterile nor biodegradable. Infections, perforations, and incomplete abortions weren’t just possible theoretical outcomes; they were expected complications. Karman’s defenders conceded that the device worked only when used in conjunction with suction or surgical cleanup.
That was the entire philosophy behind it: do just enough violence to trigger the body to finish the job and walk away. It was cheap, and it was fast, and the abortionists had no concern for what came next. Fifteen low-income African American women were about to find out.
All of them were transported from Chicago to Philadelphia under a plan organized and funded by the International Planned Parenthood Federation. The so-called “demonstration project” was executed at the Philadelphia Health Federation Clinic by none other than Dr. Kermit Gosnell, that is, the infamous Dr. Gosnell, and the outcome was as expected.
It was horrific. Nine of the fifteen women suffered catastrophic complications. Two needed emergency hysterectomies. One suffered a perforated uterus. All endured physical trauma. Some never fully recovered. There were no informed consent forms disclosing that they were test subjects. No oversight. No legal recourse. This was human experimentation on American women by a taxpayer-funded entity.
Despite the carnage, no investigation was conducted. No indictments. No hearings. IPPF and its affiliates continued their operations without pause. Gosnell went on to become one of the most prolific and infamous abortionists in the country. Harvey Karman continued promoting his devices abroad.
Planned Parenthood performs over 400,000 abortions every year. That’s more than 1,000 per day. And they receive over $600 million in taxpayer funding to keep their abattoir running. Their model is volume. Their ethic is expediency. And thanks to President Trump, their taxpayer funding will now end.
Unfortunately, it came too late for the countless women who have been injured and killed in their abortion centers over the last five decades. 
LifeNews.com Note: Raimundo Rojas is the Outreach Director for the National Right to Life Committee. He is a former president of Florida Right to Life and has presented the pro-life message to millions in Spanish-language media outlets. He represents NRLC at the United Nations as an NGO. Rojas was born in Santiago de las Vegas, Havana, Cuba and he and his family escaped to the United States in 1968.
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