Four more saves in Rockford; Breaking: Wisconsin Facility Abandons Late-term Abortion Plan under Pro-Life Fire; Women Who Have Abortions Four Times More Likely to Abuse Drugs, Alcohol; Prayer For Such A Time As This; NY Hospital Apologizes to Nurses Punished for Refusing to Facilitate Abortion….
On Friday April 30, an estimated 8 children in the womb were intentionally killed inside of Northern Illinois Women's Center. Many pro-lifers came to pray this morning including a large group of teenagers. The result was at least two mothers who we know chose life today.
One of the couples who chose life arrived at the mill with a child about a year old. As we have seen so many times in the past, when parents try to enter the clinic with a child who can be seen, it sends the workers into a tizzy. They immediately order the child out of the building. It seems something about a laughing, playing, happy baby really disturbs them, and they can't stand the child's presence in the mill for more than a moment.
Thankfully, the parents of this child stopped to talk with sidewalk counselors and said they will not have an abortion now. It really opens the eyes of mothers and fathers to see the reaction of those inside the mill when children are near. It clarifies for them in many ways that this abortion mill is about destroying children's lives.
As the couple began to drive away, the mother who had her baby now safely inside her and her other child on her lap was smiling from ear to ear.
Mom said "thank you" to the pro-lifers and held her baby's tiny hand and glowingly waved at each of the sidewalk counselors and pro-lifers as they drove away.
We could see in the mother's eyes that as she held one of her baby's hands, she was really waving for both her babies in thanks to God for the horror they were saved from this morning.
On Wednesday May 5, an estimated nine children were killed inside the Rockford abortion mill.
As Christians stood outside this place of sadness and death offering help to mothers, it was hard to distinguish the drizzling rain that fell on the depressed faces of these mothers entering the mill from their tears.
On the sidewalk as faithful witnessed to Christ and life stood in the rain praying, one of the sidewalk counselors stood out. She held a sign that said, "I regret my abortion."
What stood out about her was the love and truth she shared with the mothers entering the mill, and the confident faith and joy she had as a person who knows and loves Jesus Christ. She was a living witness to the grace, mercy, and love of Jesus Christ.
"with the clouds of heaven there came one like a son of man, and He came to the Ancient of Days and was presented before Him. And to Him was given dominion and glory and kingdom, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve Him; His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and His kingdom one that shall not be destroyed." Daniel 7:13-14
On this morning when clouds covered the Rockford abortion mill, we did see the light of the sun briefly break through. We also saw the light of the Son of God as two mothers chose LIFE.
Sidewalk counselors spoke to both mothers as they arrived at the mill. As one of the mothers was leaving the abortion mill, she turned to a Catholic Priest with the joy in her eyes that only comes with choosing life. She smiled broadly, waved, drove away, and took the light of Christ and life with her.
The mission of Rockford Pro-Life Initiative is to eliminate abortion in the Rockford area through Prayer, Fasting, Education, and Personal Sacrifice.
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What Does The Future Hold For The Rockford Abortion Mill And The Children Who Face Death There?
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Breaking: Wisconsin Facility Abandons Late-term Abortion Plan under Pro-Life Fire
By Kathleen Gilbert
MADISON, Wisconsin, May 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Pro-Life Wisconsin (PLW), through the Alliance Defense Fund, announced Wednesday that they have received official confirmation from the Wisconsin Attorney General’s office that the Madison Surgery Center (MSC) has abandoned its plans to perform late-term abortions.
“We give credit first and foremost to God for this pro-life victory,” said Peggy Hamill, state director of Pro-Life Wisconsin, in a statement Wednesday. “Pro-life grassroots activism works. We have held countless prayer vigils, attended by thousands; aired hundreds of pro-life television commercials in the Madison area; tens of thousands of people signed our pro-life petition; and hundreds boycotted the Madison Surgery Center. We have maintained a daily prayer presence outside the MSC, and our NoUWabortions.com website has served as a virtual hub of resistance.”
The Madison Surgery Center board voted to allow late-term abortions at a February 2009 meeting. The Madison Surgery Center is a joint partnership between Meriter Hospital, the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics and the University of Wisconsin Medical Foundation.
Following the decision, officials were bombarded by pro-life outrage from across the country. 2,000 pro-lifers rallied in protest only days after the decision, and in January, over 20,000 pro-lifers signed a petition delivered to officials condemning the plan. The decision also incited an advertising campaign opposing it.
In January, documents obtained by Pro-Life Wisconsin and the Alliance Defense Fund via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request raised serious concerns that the late-term abortion setup was designed to supply the school's medical researchers with fresh fetal body parts for experimentation.
Assistant Attorney General Kevin Potter, in a letter to an Eau Claire attorney, stated, “We have also been in contact with legal counsel for the University of Wisconsin (UW) to determine how the proposed services would be provided. We have been awaiting response from the UW on the final plans before replying to your letter. It is my understanding based on recent information from the UW that they have now abandoned plans to provide late-term abortion services at MSC.” (Click here to read the letter.)
“We are happy to announce that our boycott of the Madison Surgery Center has ended, and we applaud the pro-life medical staff of the Madison Surgery Center who spoke in public opposition to this senseless plan,” said Virginia Zignego, Pro-Life Wisconsin communications director and a UW-Madison graduate. “When we kill babies, it is a failure of our health care system and a failure of our intellects. When we kill babies it is a sign that consciences are dead. When consciences are dead, there is no limit to what we will do.”
Matt Sande, legislative director for Pro-Life Wisconsin, told LifeSiteNews.com that the turnaround was due to the co-ordinated, multi-faceted approach of the pro-life effort.
After Pro-Life Wisconsin exposed the project that the center was "obviously trying to keep secret," said Sande, "that rocked them back on their heels right away, I think, from day one: they knew that the pro-life community wasn't going to tolerate a late-term abortion plan - and in downtown Madison, in their state-of-the-art surgery center."
Sande mentioned that a boycott sponsored by PLW, in which several families abandoned the Madison Surgery Center and switched their insurance away from the UW Health insurance, put even more pressure on the abortion advocates. "We know from the doctors inside the facilities ... that they were losing patients, and that was having an economic impact," said Sande, "that had a strong influence on their decision not to go ahead."
Sande warned that "the other side is very tenacious, and this is just one battle." "I'm sure that they will continue to find, to search for a location, a physician, to accomplish this plan - and obviously we're ever-vigilant," he said. The local pro-abortion lobby reportedly urged the Center to adopt the plan after Dennis Christensen, the primary provider of late-term abortions in Madison, left the area.
Nonetheless, Sande concluded that "Ultimately, this is an answer to prayer. We give all the glory to God."
"This is a great pro-life victory that He has achieved," he said. "Today, May 5, this is a day of celebration. We are declaring victory over this plan."
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Women Who Have Abortions Four Times More Likely to Abuse Drugs, Alcohol
Winnipeg, Canada (LifeNews.com) -- A new study conducted by researchers at the University of Manitoba finds women who have had abortions are about four times more likely to abuse drugs and alcohol as those who carried their pregnancy to term. The authors confirmed a link between abortion and the substance abuse issues.
Natalie Mota, a PhD student in the U of M's clinical psychology department, co-wrote the study with authors Margaret Burnett and Jitender Sareen.
The study appeared in the April issue of the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry and it showed women having abortions were 3.8 times more likely to have substance abuse disorders.
That was the case even when other factors such as exposure to violence were included that could have raised the risk outside of abortion.
The Canadian study also found abortion associated with other mental health conditions such as mood disorders, but substance abuse proved to be the strongest link when it comes to post-abortion problems for women.
The study provides more evidence that abortions hurt women as Mota told the newspaper hers was larger than many prior studies showing adverse mental health issues for women following an abortion compared with keeping the baby.
Mota and her colleagues told the Sun they also suggest abortion centers pre-screen women for substance abuse problems prior to abortions. Women who already have struggles with drug and alcohol abuse may see those problems exacerbated by the abortion. Currently, abortion centers typically don't provide such screening or encourage women who struggle with those mental health issues to carry to term.
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Prayer For Such A Time As This
Thursday May 6th, 2010, 59th Annual Observance
http://www.ndptf.org/
Coronado Theater 7:00pm, Prayer Walk @ 5:30pm
Rockford praying with one heart & one voice
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NY Hospital Apologizes to Nurses Punished for Refusing to Facilitate Abortion
Hospital conscience policy still illegal?
By Kathleen Gilbert
NEW YORK, April 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The president of a New York hospital has reversed punishment against eight nurses who refused to take part in an abortion, and has issued an apology to some of them, reported Newsday on Thursday. However, there remains question as to whether the hospital would have persisted in coercing the nurses, in conflict with New York and federal law, had the patient's case been accurately deemed an "emergency situation."
"We erred in our personnel actions, have apologized to several of the nurses and will do so with the others, as well. They did nothing wrong," Nassau University Medical Center (NUMC) President Arthur Gianelli said Tuesday.
Gianelli said that the nurses were off the hook because the patient was not actually in a life-threatening situation, despite the fact that the director of perinatal nursing had originally believed that she was. The hospital is reportedly refining a new policy that, in the words of Newsday, "defines more clearly when a health care worker can refuse to take part in a nonemergency procedure. It also says the attending physician must declare and document a medical emergency."
The hospital's current policy on staff's right of refusal to perform or assist in certain health services states that, "NuHealth employees have the right not to perform or assist in Health Services that are contrary to their conscience or religious beliefs."
However, it goes on to state in a section entitled "exceptions," that, "The foregoing provisions do not apply during a medical emergency." It also states: "If an individual's conscience or religious beliefs cannot be reasonably accommodated without undue hardship, NHCC may exclude individuals who object to Health Services from employment in positions for which the performance of such services is a necessary and substantial responsibility."
NUMC confirmed to LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) the accuracy of the Newsday report, but declined to comment when asked about their policy or whether they would force medical staff to participate in abortion in an "emergency situation."
Matt Bowman of the Alliance Defense Fund, however, pointed out that both New York law and federal law "make it illegal for a regulated hospital to force objecting employees in any circumstances to assist abortions. There is no exception letting the hospital sometimes coerce pro-life health professionals when it wants to, such as if the abortion doctor thinks the abortion is necessary."
"The reason these laws don't sometimes allow coercion against pro-life workers is because abortion doctors believe all abortions are medically necessary," Bowman told LSN in an email.
"Abortion itself was illegal shortly before these laws were passed - it is anathema to American religious freedom to think pro-life workers could sometimes be forced to assist abortion," he continued. "Even in high risk pregnancies where delivery is needed, directly killing the child is never needed, and pro-life health workers are always willing to help try to save both mother and child. There's no medical or legal reason to let hospitals force someone to help kill a child."
While refraining from specific comment on Nassau's policy, Bowman noted that, unlike the policy, "The laws I cited don't have exceptions."
The closing of the Madison
Wed, 05/05/2010 - 6:09pm — Heather (not verified)The closing of the Madison late term killing center. The lives saved at the Rockford Abortion clinic. The evil of this place exposed to the world. I can just see that little baby waving to the pro-lifers and the mother smiling at the Priest. Our Lord is truly moving.
Editor: We must view this article with caution since some sources are saying that the UW is denying that they are contemplating a change in their plans. We'll keep an eye on the situation. In the meantime, continue to pray as never before.,
If you follow this link you
Wed, 05/05/2010 - 7:06pm — Praying for life in Rockford (not verified)If you follow this link you can see a story about the Rockford abortionist Dennis Christensen. http://www.jillstanek.com/industry-watch/inside-the-abor.html It had a video of him killing children in the womb but youtube has a policy against showing people being killed so they pulled it. If you scroll down (way down) you can see a couple of pictures of what happens to babies inside the Rockford abortion mill. Murder is the only word for it
From the link above you see
Thu, 05/06/2010 - 6:30am — James (not verified)From the link above you see the dead body of a baby killed by the Rockford abortionist. It makes it all too real. They try and hide behind the hatred and bigotry displayed in the mill windows to take the focus off of the murdering that goes on behind the walls. What kind of people are these that can do this to children. Look at that face, it is a child, a person this abortionist killed and he is doing it to thousands of babies in Rockford. I remember reading that after the Americans liberated a concentration camp they marched all the people from the nearby town through the concentration camp. One day the people of Rockford who remained silent to the murder of children that takes place at NIWC will be spiritually marched through that death camp and see the faces of all the murdered children. After the mayor and his wife of that German town were led through the camp they both went home and hung themselves.
I saw that video before it
Thu, 05/06/2010 - 6:51am — Marie (not verified)I saw that video before it was pulled. I was sick for weeks after. These people are cold blooded murderers.
A beautiful child is murdered before your eyes and then the abortionist starts measuring and playing with the body parts.
To think this is done every week inside the Rockford mill is beyond comprehension.
What kind of people can murder innocent children for money?
A few weeks ago, someone sent
Thu, 05/06/2010 - 1:00pm — Anonymous (not verified)A few weeks ago, someone sent me a link to another pro-life web site. Curious, I clicked to see what was sent. What I saw shocked, sickened and hurt me. This web site actually has a brief video of a surgical abortion. The exterior genital area was pixelled, "blurbed", but there was absolutely no mistaking the contents of this minute or so long video clip. It clearly showed EVERYTHING involved in what appeared to be a first or early second trimester surgical abortion. Yes, aborted baby body parts are seen, are very visible, identifiable and the amount of blood visible makes what's seen in a lot video games such as "Doom" or "Mortal Combat" look downright trivial and stupid. I just could NOT eat much of anything else the rest of the evening after watching just a little bit of this video clip. The video clip showed two gloved hands identifying body parts and at one point, the viewer can definitely see a battered, bruised and horribly mashed, bashed baby's face. I sometimes find myself crying whenever the picture of this poor baby comes into my mind; it's so awful. My god, anyone who performs abortions-of ANY kind-KNOWS they are KILLING, as in TERMINATING-the lives of these tiny babies! How can they NOT know; especially after viewing this particular clip. WARNING: If you decide to visit abortionno.org, please do so in the privacy of your home and make ABSOLUTELY SURE that NO CHILDREN WHATSOEVER ARE PRESENT, WHERE THEY COULD POTENTIALLY SEE THIS VIDEO BECAUSE IT IS *EXTREMELY GRAPHIC* AND *EXTREMELY DISTURBING* If you decide to watch it at, say, work, make very sure that you know and understand your company's policies concerning computer/interenet usage because most companies have very strict yet sensible policies and this video clip I'm sure pushes the envelope and is right up there with viewing porn or playing games or sending private, non-company related e-mails. Just please exercise the utmost judgement, common sense and decency when choosing to view this site while at work. While there's absolutely nothing contained in their site that's libellous, slanderous, wrong or hateful, because of its very nature, abortion, its contents are EXTREMELY CONTROVERSIAL and must be treated with due respect and sensitivity. The organization that sponsors this web site believes that if more folks see what abortion REALLY does to REAL human babies, they believe that more folks will become outraged enough to be AGAINST abortion, because it's barbaric in the extreme. I too looked for the Dr. Dennis Christensen video and didn't get the opportunity to view it before YouTube pulled it. I always thought this was rather schizophrenic of YouTube because there are literally thousands of REAL fight videos of ALL kinds-kids, teens, adults, animals. Riots of all kinds. Real religious and ethnic fights. Nazi and skinhead videos. Even some terrorist and stoning videos or clips. Some have been removed. Others have simply been blurbed and still play. You might not be able to see all the gory details or parts of the video, but you can make up the rest of the picture in your mind. Talk about a double standard - one standard for, say, real fights or rioting videos or even Saddam Hussein's hanging execution and another, unacceptable, standard for abortions and what such do to real pre-born human babies. It's as if YouTube gives free pass to displays of the worst of the worst of human behavior and depravity and intentionally, on purpose, denies objective reality when it comes to the literally physically ripping and tearing apart of human babies in their mothers' wombs. I'm sorry, but I just do NOT understand! I just DON'T get it! W H Y? W H Y? W H Y? W H Y? W H Y? W H Y? W H Y? W H Y? W H Y? W H Y? And here in Rockford, we have two city officials whose morally vacant comments about abortion are a matter of public and permanent record: "I believe that abortion is taking a child's life, but I support the law that allows it." Vernita Hervey 13th Ward Alderwoman "I don't talk to terrorists." Karen Elyea 11th Ward These are Ms. Elyea's exact words when a constituent entered her business and expressed concern about the assorted bizarre, hateful signs and displays located @ NIWC. Apparently this constituent approached Karen respectfully and made it clear that he was respectful in both his manners and concerns and it's a matter of record that Ms. Elyea responded by using foul language and yelling at the man to leave her store. Again, this is NOT a matter of opinion or anti-choice or anti-abortion hate speech or propaganda, no. It's as much FACT that Ms. Elyea treated the man in question as such, and it is a FACT that Alderwoman Elyea videotaped peaceful law-abiding protesters @ 1400 Broadway last winter and spring WITHOUT THEIR LEGAL PERMISSION/CONSENT and when someone approached Ms. Elyea's vehicle, again, she rudely said, quote "I don't talk to or negotiate with terrorists." What kind of stupid, inflamatory, accusatory and gutless conduct is this?? I'm sure what Ms. Elyea said and did can be construed as moral terpitude if anything. She should have her position as an "alderman" involuntarily terminated for these actions alone. Why is she STILL in a postion of power and influence and control, that taxpayers and her constituents are paying for?? I mean, Ms. Elyea labelled the folks who make her job even possible "terrorists" and according to her, she "doesn't talk to terrorists." So much for the HOPE of respectful dialogue and airing of legitimate concerns, hey?!? Where can we turn and talk to when we've been so hatefully shut down and out of the political processes of our neighborhood?? And folks wonder "why" we have virtually unchecked drugs, thefts, prostitution, illegal immigrants, etc?? These issues are legitimate FACTS and legitimate concerns that need to-MUST-be addressed if concerned folks have even a REMOTE chance at helping clean up this area of town! I go back a little bit... We just did not think or believe that living so close to Rockford's babies' deaths for private profits "clinic" would be so difficult. The bizarre assortment of signs...that included Sad In Rockford and others' names and IDs...the signs mocking patients with HIV/AIDS, the rubber chicken over a crucifix, the paranoid amount of cameras everywhere, the constant overt and covert lurking of Wayne Webster and company...Wayne up on a tall ladder with a megaphone shouting insults to peaceful respectful law-abiding abortion proesters...the signs AND remarks from Wayne and supporters about African-Americans, Mexicans and others...the "Condoms For Christ" couple and the creepy Cookie Monster look-alike that sports a "KEEP ABORTION LEGAL" t-shirt...Waynes's clooection of luxury vehicles across from the mill...bought and paid for with nothing less than twenty plus decades of blood money profits-derived directly and/or indirectly from the deaths of thousands of thousands of per-born babies...the sign BRAGGING that the doctors and staff of NIWC have killed over 50,000 babies since they opened in the early 1980's. I could keep going but I think folks get the idea and I feel almost too dizzy to continue. I don't know how or where we're going to manage doing so, but I cannot wait until such time that we're able to move away from this area because I can only think of one word right now that accurately describes this area: TOXIC As the direct result of the presence and activities of those that work(and live at)1400 Broadway, this area is little more than a socio-economic toxic waste site and will continue being such until folks get and are disgusted enough with the crime, decay and degradation of this area and of Rockford in general to actually do something about it. I can't adequately describe what it's like to live in an area and neighborhood where any and ALL hope of respectful dialogue with those that claim to represent me/us is all but non-existant; all but just not "there". I can't adequately describe without nasty words what it's like to know that despite our taxes contributing to our city and neighborhood and various infrastructures, that we're considered by our "alderman" to be non persons; that despite our contributions, we're essentially, in the eyes of certain populations, scum to be despised, marginalized and ignored. Again, WHY?!?!?!?!? Again, one and all, we're NOT the ones making and/or deriving untold private profits from the intentional killing of tiny helpless, voiceless and defenseless babies! We're not the ones acting with little to zero shame publicly, for all to see and know. We're not the ones now forever on things like YouTube, Yahoo, Google and other sites...ranting, raving and threatening others, salivating like a scared cornered animal for literally ANYONE in the world to see and to know. We're not the ones publicly proclaiming "I don't talk to terrorists!" and then demanding the right to continue doing business as though nothing of consequence ever happened or if it did happen, such was no big deal, misunderstood or taken out of context. Um, excatly what is there to take out of context?? I believe these folks, what they've said and what they've done and for all to see and know, clearly speak for themselves and such speak volumes above ANYTHING that I/we could say or do. And we're the enemy?? Just go to web sites such as www.clinicquotes.com, www.abortionno.org and others listed here to get further insight into what and whom we're dealing with. Talk about speaking volumes...
Yikes! Your right if you go
Thu, 05/06/2010 - 2:11pm — Drew (not verified)Yikes! Your right if you go way down they have a couple pictures of the dead baby. You know, so much of this abortion debate is just that, a debate. Words that's all. But to see a baby that is killed by the cold hands and black heart of people like the Rockford abortion crew makes the murder of all these babies real. What will God have in store for people who do this to children? I shudder to think.
Dear Anonymous, Your insights
Thu, 05/06/2010 - 2:54pm — Anna (not verified)Dear Anonymous,
Your insights are amazing.
But one thing we must always remember. The children killed by abortion are in heaven. The mothers who have had the truth hidden from them and have been lied to by the abortion mill and have now repented are always forgiven by God.
But the real tragedy are the souls of those in the abortion industry that will spend an eternity in hell (unless they repent) for murdering babies, God's babies, members of our human family.
Those graphic pictures of mutilated tortured children killed by abortion doesn't even begin to show one one billionth of the horror that those souls will experience if they refuse to stop murdering babies.
That is the greatest horror of abortion. The souls of those who kill these children and make the killing possible will spend an eternity experiencing the pain, suffering, and agony they have inflicted on these babies.
This is a 14 week old baby
Thu, 05/06/2010 - 3:36pm — Friend of the unborn (not verified)This is a 14 week old baby like they kill inside of the Rockford mill. They have kill thousands upon thousands of girls and boys like this.
http://www.priestsforlife.org/video/babies/
This video (that has ROCKFORD connection, see for yourself) shows the size and humanity of a typical person murdered at NIWC.
To think they have done this to 50,000 babies. It's worse than what was done by the nazis.
Satan is having a heyday in
Thu, 05/06/2010 - 6:02pm — A Rockford Christian (not verified)Satan is having a heyday in our midst, because he has managed to gain a foothold at the Rockford abortion mill. Our laxity has granted him that luxury. Because the efforts to dislodge what is evil are so arduous – we know that evil will not give up without a fight; It shouldn’t surprise us that this fight has taken so many years. I believe they have been murdering babies for 25 years at the present location in Rockford. But in God's time this is nothing. God is eternal. And God's victory over the evil of abortion in Rockford will be eternal.
The saddest words a person
Fri, 05/07/2010 - 8:20am — Phyllis (not verified)The saddest words a person can ever say or hear in the city of Rockford are. "I have an appointment at The Northern Illinois Women's Center." All that follows is death. The death of a child and the death of a soul.
Anonymous - whoever you are
Fri, 05/07/2010 - 10:11am — Mary Beth (not verified)Anonymous - whoever you are you are painting a picture with words that tells the story of the slime and deadly evil that is trying to destroy our city from within.
Please keep up your good reporting. You are a light shining on the darkness.
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