Abotion clinics closing and the wailing begins

A life time of watching those who support state sponsored murder and I am still amazed at the brash and unashamed positions that many so called pro choice advocates hold toward the lives of unborn children.  

Abortion Clinics Closing at Record Rate

(UPDATED) Reasons vary, but the trend is clear.

Tom Strode - Baptist Press

[ posted 9/13/2013 11:47AM ]

Courtesy of 40 Days for Life/Coalition for Life

August closing of Planned Parenthood clinic in Bryan, Texas.

Update: The Huffington Post assessed the "dramatic toll" that recent pro-life laws have taken on abortion clinics, with Arizona leading the way. Meanwhile, the abortion battle has gone digital as more states ban abortions by telemedicine.

CT has examined the new pro-life surge in-depth.

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(BP) For Abby Johnson, the closing of a single Planned Parenthood center demonstrated her dramatic reversal from abortion clinic director to leading pro-life advocate.

But for pro-lifers throughout the United States, it marked another exhibit in a hopeful trend—abortion centers are shutting down at an unprecedented rate. The total so far this year is 44, according to a pro-life organization that tracks clinic operations.

None was more telling for Johnson than the mid-July closing of the Planned Parenthood center in Bryan, Texas. It came less than four years after Johnson, burdened by her involvement with abortion, walked out of that clinic as its director and into the offices of the Coalition for Life.

"Knowing that the former abortion clinic I once ran is now closing is the biggest personal victory of my life," Johnson said in a written statement after the announcement of the shutdown. "From running that facility, to then advocating for its closure, and now celebrating that dream ... it shows that my life has indeed come full circle."

Since her celebrated conversion from Planned Parenthood director, Johnson has started a ministry to help workers leave the abortion industry. She has pledged, as she said in July, to "fight until every abortion clinic in this country has shut its doors."

This year, 42 clinics that provided surgical abortions have shut their doors, and two that offered chemical abortions by drugs also have closed, according to Operation Rescue, which monitors closings and health and safety violations by clinics nationwide. That number far surpasses the 25 surgical clinics shutdown last year and the 30 in 2011, by Operation Rescue's count. While others estimate a smaller number of closings, the pattern is clear.

Some of the shutdowns have been of major clinics. For instance, Virginia's No. 1 abortion provider closed, The Washington Post reported in July. NOVA Women's Healthcare in Fairfax, Va., shut down after state and local governments enacted regulations the abortion provider appeared unable to meet. The northern Virginia clinic performed 3,066 abortions in 2012 and 3,567 in 2011.

The reasons given for the upswing in closings are varied even among pro-lifers. They include:

-- the increasing state regulation and oversight of clinics;

-- a growth in pro-life opinion and activity, and

-- a significant decline in the abortion rate.

In some cases, clinics have shut down when abortion doctors retired or were no longer licensed.

State legislatures enacted 69 pro-life laws this year, according to a report released Thursday (Sept. 5) by Americans United for Life. In all, 48 states considered about 360 such proposals in 2013, AUL reported.

The legislative action this year continued a recent trend in states: 70 "life-affirming measures" became law in 2011 and 38 in 2012, according to AUL.

Some measures have targeted making the procedure and clinics safer for women, and have helped escalate the number of clinic shutdowns. This year, states such as Alabama, North Carolina and Texas passed varied laws either requiring abortion clinics to meet the same health and safety standards as outpatient surgical centers, or authorizing the state to enforce such requirements. Also, in 2013, North Dakota and Wisconsin joined Alabama and Texas in mandating abortion doctors have admitting privileges at local hospitals.

Editor's note: Read the full Baptist Press article here. CT has previously reported on abortion clinic restrictions and legislation restricting abortion. CT also covered pro-life groups exposing abortion practices and how pro-lifers are winning the abortion battle.

Ass Backwards Solutions in Syria.

John Kerry blunders into an alternative proposal for the Syrian crisis and in doing so, hobbles Barack Obama's desire to go full throttle with an attack. In the interim. Vladimir Putin sees the beauty of the dilemma for the Americans and immediately seizes upon the idea as something that Russia could support and sponsor. 

Meanwhile, both Obama's State Department and Kerry spend the next 48 hours trying to "walk back" Kerry's UN-savvy mistake. All to no avail. Both the Russians and the Syrians seize upon the notion of a monitored surrender of WMD's.  Both Putin and Asad know that by doing so, Obama is hamstrung in his desire to attack Syria and his unwavering support the Al Qaida backed rebels in Syria.

As for the WMD's?  Oh yes.....those. Those are Saddam's old stockpiles. the same ones that everyone was saying were proven not to be in Iraq. Well hell no they weren't in Iraq. Not after we gave Saddam weeks to move them in advance of the  America invasion. And guess what?  While the world is pissing and poo pooing the wonders of the Russian agreement and Syria's compromise? they will move them again. My bet is they go to Iran this time. Some place that will really use them.

Maybe there is such a thing as divine intervention in the face of partisan, bureaucratic, novice bungling by the Obama white house. Anything that keeps American military forces out of Syria works for me. Even Obama's idiocy or John Kerry's mistakes.But in the long run, all that has occurred is time has been bought before the final conflagration. America will see these weapons again and next time they will be used on our troops.

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Obama sees potential ‘breakthrough’ in Russia’s Syria proposal

By Anne Gearan, Karen DeYoung and Will Englund, Published: September 9

Russia and Syria embraced Secretary of State John F. Kerry’s suggestion Monday that the Syrian government could avert a U.S. attack by placing its chemical weapons under international control, upending the Obama administration’s efforts to sharpen its case for military action.
U.S. officials said Kerry’s comment, made in response to a question at a news conference in London, was not intended to be a diplomatic opening. But Kerry’s Russian and Syrian counterparts quickly followed up, and the idea drew immediate interest internationally and from top Democrats in Washington.
By the end of the day, President Obama conceded that the idea of monitoring and ultimately destroying Syria’s arsenal “could potentially be a significant breakthrough.” The Senate postponed a vote scheduled for Wednesday on whether to back a proposed punitive strike.
“I think you have to take it with a grain of salt, initially,” Obama said in an interview with NBC that was among several he gave Monday in pursuit of public backing for a military strike in response to an alleged Aug. 21 gas attack on Syrian civilians.
“We are going to run this to ground,” Obama said. “We’re going to make sure that we see how serious these proposals are.”
The president plans to address the nation Tuesday evening in a speech originally planned to be the capstone of a newly focused moral and political case to rally a skeptical public and reluctant lawmakers.
The timing of the new proposal was awkward and its apparent genesis perhaps more so.
It began when Kerry was asked early Monday whether Assad could avoid a U.S. attack.
“Sure. He could turn over every bit of his weapons to the international community within the next week, without delay,” Kerry responded with a shrug. “But he isn’t about to.”

Sometimes a picture really is worth 1000 words

No matter how Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Police Superintendant Garry McCarthy spin it by touting overall crime being down in the city, the numbers for 2013 are still horrifying.

And this is a city with the most stringent gun control laws in America.

Iran threatens mass attacks and rape of Obama's daughters

Once again we have leaders of the religion of peace demonstrating precisely how they intend to follow the love and the teachings of their so called prophet.

Barack Obama may be about to release murder and mayhem on America and Americans with his foolish intent to attack Syria and when he does, I sincerely hope the American people remember who was responsible for what follows.  There will be no retaliatory attacks against the Muslim world, because remember, America is not at war with Islam and regardless of what the media had done to obscure the truth, Barack Obama is a Muslim at heart.

Never mind that Islam is at war with America and has been for decades, Barack Obama will not extract revenge or retaliatory actions against Tran or anyone else who attacks Americans or America's interests and allies.  If you are waiting to see what the response to Iran's threats and actions will be? Look not to the Red Sea and America's puny fleet of frigates, but look rather to Israel. Netanyahu will unleash hell on earth against the Iranians if they attack Israel. He has been begging America for ten years to look at what they were doing with their nuclear program and what their stated intent has been from the beginning. If America attacks Syria and Iran responds by attacking Israel, watch what the Israeli response will be.  The middle east will be set aglow before the sun sets on the first day.

Cry havoc! Let loose the dogs of war!

I believe we are getting very close now to the end times spoken of in the book of Revelations

As Congress debates whether to support President Obama’s call for a limited strike against Syria for the alleged use of chemical weapons, Iran is vowing to back Bashar al-Assad’s regime to the hilt and threatening to unleash terrorism should the U.S. strike.
Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s Quds Forces, Wednesday told the Assembly of Experts — the body that chooses the supreme leader — that “[w]e will support Syria to the end.”
And in an unprecedented statement, a former Iranian official has warned of mass abductions and brutal killings of American citizens around the world and the rape and killing of one of Obama’s daughters should the United States attack Syria.
Alireza Forghani, the former governor of southern Iran’s Kish Province, threw down the gauntlet last week. Forghani is an analyst and strategy specialist in the supreme leader’s camp and closely aligned with Mehdi Taeb, who heads the regime’s Ammar Strategic Base, a radical think thank, and thus speaks with the blessing of the Islamic regime.
“Hopefully Obama will be pigheaded enough to attack Syria, and then we will see the … loss of U.S. interests [through terrorist attacks],” he threatened. “In just 21 hours [after the attack on Syria], a family member of every U.S. minister [department secretary], U.S. ambassadors, U.S. military commanders around the world will be abducted. And then 18 hours later, videos of their amputation will be spread [around the world].”

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According to Vladamir Putin, John Kerry Lies

According to Vladamir Putin, John Kerry lies and he has been lying about the realities of the Syrian civil war.  Kerry is doing his best to sell Barack Obama's need to attack Syria as a justified action supported by a democratic process struggling in its infancy in Syria.

Kerry portrait of Syria rebels at odds with intelligence reports

Secretary of State John Kerry's public assertions that moderate Syrian opposition groups are growing in influence appear to be at odds with estimates by U.S. and European intelligence sources and nongovernmental experts, who say Islamic extremists remain by far the fiercest and best-organized rebel elements.
At congressional hearings this week, while making the case for President Barack Obama's plan for limited military action in Syria, Kerry asserted that the armed opposition to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad "has increasingly become more defined by its moderation, more defined by the breadth of its membership, and more defined by its adherence to some, you know, democratic process and to an all-inclusive, minority-protecting constitution.

 John Kerry wouldn't lie would he?

Hell yes he would.  The man has been lying for over forty years to the public and now to the American people.

Have a look at the video of the rebels that John Kerry and Barack Obama want to support with American military air strikes.

Link to video of Rebel slaughter

Then tell me again how John Kerry isn't a liar.

America: Islam's Surrogate

Well there you have it folk. America has been told by Arab countries, just as long as we act as their surrogates? they will pay for "America's war against Syria." Americans should be screaming from the roof tops over this betrayal by Obama and his lap dog Kerry and the rest of his rogue administration.

Kerry: Arab countries offered to pay for invasion

Secretary of State John Kerry said at Wednesday’s hearing that Arab counties have offered to pay for the entirety of unseating President Bashar al-Assad if the United States took the lead militarily.
“With respect to Arab countries offering to bear costs and to assess, the answer is profoundly yes,” Kerry said. “They have. That offer is on the table.”
Asked by Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) about how much those countries would contribute, Kerry said they have offered to pay for all of a full invasion.
“In fact, some of them have said that if the United States is prepared to go do the whole thing the way we’ve done it previously in other places, they’ll carry that cost,” Kerry said. “That’s how dedicated they are at this. That’s not in the cards, and nobody’s talking about it, but they’re talking in serious ways about getting this done.

Justive served by the wrong hand.

This beast needed to be hung alright. He just shouldn't have been allowed to do it himself.
 



Justice Served

Ariel Castro, sentenced to life in prison for the decade-long kidnapping, rape and beatings of three Cleveland women he held captive, was found hanged in his prison cell Tuesday night, an Ohio corrections official confirmed.
The former school bus driver, who was under protective custody and isolated from other inmates at the Correctional Reception Center in Orient, Ohio, was found dead at about 9:20 p.m. when prison staff were making their rounds, Rehabilitation and Correction Department spokeswoman JoEllen Smith said.
After prison medical personnel tried to resuscitate him, Castro, 53, was transferred to an area hospital and pronounced dead about 90 minutes later, she said.
Castro was sentenced on Aug. 1 to life plus 1,000 years in prison without the possibility of parole for abducting his three victims and keeping them imprisoned in the dungeon-like confines of his house, where they were starved, beaten and sexually assaulted for about a decade.

McCain needs a permanent loss

 John McCain needs a permanent loss. Someone needs to replace this loser in the US senate.

 
America's Loss

Sometimes senators need a diversion from even the weightiest of topics. For Sen. John McCain during Tuesday's hearing on Syria, it was a game on his iPhone.

The Washington Post posted a picture taken during the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing and reported that it shows the Arizona Republican playing poker on his phone. Only his hands and iPhone were visible.
Shortly afterward, McCain came clean in a sarcastic tweet posted on his Twitter account that began with the word, "Scandal!"
McCain wrote that he'd been caught playing on his phone during a hearing that, he quickly pointed out, exceeded three hours.
The senator added, "Worst of all, I lost!"

Where is John Kerry?

I noticed yesterday when John Kerry was making the rounds of the Sunday talk shows hyping Obama's justifications for attacking Syria that something just didn't look right. So I did a little comparison analysis via google image searches and this is what I found.

It sure looks to me like we have either had a ton of Botox and make up as of yesterday? Or someone is impersonating Mr. horse face of late.  I suspect there are also some steroid medications that would cause puffiness like this, but other than those three explanations, I cannot fathom what has happened to Kerry's face in a little over one month. 

Dinner with Adolph Hitler?

John Kerry is featured coddling those in 2009, that he has now compared to Adolph Hitler and Saddam Hussein. John Kerry has absolutely no credibility.  
 
 Cosy: This astonishing photograph shows the U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his wife having an intimate dinner with Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad and his wife in 2009

The picture is believed to have been taken in February 2009 in the Naranj restaurant in Damascus when Kerry led a delegation to Syria to discuss ideas and talk about the way forward for peace in the region.
Despite President Barack Obama taking a step back from his threat to launch an attack by putting  a vote in Congress, his Secretary of State has been outspoken about the dangers posed by the Syrian regime.

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Respect

Respect is earned not demanded. When you have repeatedly demonstrated no respect for others, you will soon find that others usually have no respect for you.  Barack Obama has turned his back on and purposely insulted America's allies in Europe from the very first day of his presidency. Is it surprising that those who have been the brunt of his purposeful insults for the last five years feel little to no compunction to come to his aid with his trumped up Syrian problem.

The British and the Germans have each turned their cheeks to Obama's desires to form a coalition against Syria. Meanwhile, the Russians and the Chinese have made it imminently clear that America better not attack Syria.  Syria already possesses the most sophisticated Russian anti aircraft defense systems available and if America attacks Syria, you can bet they will use them. Just as you can bet that Iran, bolstered by the support of China and Russia will attack Israel. On a good note, we do have the support of the French.  Wow....I feel better already.

Meanwhile, the purposely weakened American military, the same military that Obama openly is condescending and demeaning to has admitted they are not prepared.  The generals at the Pentagon have told the president that due to the censure of budgetary cuts? We simply cannot afford a war, we don't have the money. I wonder how that plays in the halls of power in Peking and Moscow?  Does anyone think that America has finally been brought to its knees as a world power by this interloper in chief?  I do.  And if he does go ahead with his false flag attack against Syria, watch for the maelstrom that will be unleashed against Israel and ultimately America.

Meanwhile.............as it concerns lack of respect by this president?

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