• • With pro-life rally plans, RNC delivers big statement on abortion
• • 10-Eye-Opening Quotes From Planned Parenthood Founder Margaret Sanger
• • Planned Parenthood Tries to Stop Texas Law Closing Abortion Clinics
• • Nurses, other non-physicians can perform abortions in California

In an unprecedented show of opposition to abortion, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus is delaying the start of the party's annual winter meeting so he and other committee members can join the March for Life on the Mall, The Washington Times has learned.

Mr. Priebus, a plain-spoken Greek Orthodox lawyer from Wisconsin, will join members of his party's national committee and thousands of other abortion opponents in the annual right-to-life march scheduled for Jan. 22, the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision that declared abortion a constitutional right.

"I saw that there was a real interest among a significant portion of our members to attend and support the Rally for Life," Mr. Priebus said in an email to The Times. "This is a core principle of our party. It was natural for me to support our members and our principles."

Mr. Priebus, in his second term as elected chairman of the Republican National Committee, chose to delay the start of the four-day winter meeting of the GOP governing body, also scheduled in Washington, to allow himself and RNC members to attend the march. The delay is unprecedented for a major U.S. political party, several state Republican Party chairmen and other RNC members said in telephone interviews.

Mr. Priebus also decided that the RNC will charter a bus to and from the march for those among the RNC's 168 members who wish to attend, he said.

"I will attend the March for Life and am making a few simple modifications of the schedule and ensuring that the members have safe and adequate transportation to and from the rally," he said in his email.

In an email circulated among other members, Alaska RNC member Debbie Joslin said, "I have served under a number of chairmen and not one of them ever made any opportunity for us to attend the March for Life, and they always scheduled critical meetings for the same time as the March for Life. Big thanks to Reince for standing up for the unborn!"

The chairman's action is an example of the increasingly bottom-up instead of top-down way the RNC functions.

On paper, the RNC is quite democratic in structure - it is made up of an elected state party chairman and an elected committee man and a committee woman from each of the 50 states and five U.S. territories. But for almost its entire history, the national chairman, in an informal alliance with the GOP congressional leadership and top fundraisers, has called the shots.

But this act was different.

"When Reince got wind of what members were planning on their own, he emailed that he would shift our RNC schedule so we could attend, and he offered that the RNC would get transportation for us," Missouri GOP Chairman Ed Martin said.

Oklahoma RNC member Carolyn McLarty, an evangelical Protestant, said the schedule change had its origins in an email reminder about the march from Virginia RNC member Kathy Hayden "about a week ago and that we could probably attend at least part of it prior to the start of the RNC meetings. ... Things have snowballed from there."

She said West Virginia RNC member Melody Potter had "contacted the bus company and the emails started flying with members wanting to attend."

"I am pumped at the opportunity that we have as a party," Mrs. Potter said. "There is nothing that we cannot accomplish together. We are Republican for a reason."

The March for Life is one of the biggest events of the year for social conservatives. Although neither the National Park Service nor any other government agency publicly releases estimates of such demonstrations and rallies, organizers said about 650,000 people marched last year.

As testimony to the steady increase since the 1980s of social and religious conservatives - especially evangelical Protestants - in the Republican Party electoral coalition, House Speaker John A. Boehner, an Ohio Republican and a Catholic, addressed the rally last year.

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The most merciful thing that the large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.

Margaret Sanger

Woman and the New Race, ch. 6: "The Wickedness of Creating Large Families." Here, Sanger argues that, because the conditions of large families tend to involve poverty and illness, it is better for everyone involved if a child's life is snuffed out before he or she has a chance to pose difficulties to its family.

[We should] apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is tainted, or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring.

"Plan for Peace" from Birth Control Review (April 1932, pp. 107-108)

Article 1. The purpose of the American Baby Code shall be to provide for a better distribution of babies... and to protect society against the propagation and increase of the unfit.
Article 4. No woman shall have the legal right to bear a child, and no man shall have the right to become a father, without a permit...
Article 6. No permit for parenthood shall be valid for more than one birth.

"America Needs a Code for Babies," 27 Mar 1934

Give dysgenic groups [people with "bad genes"] in our population their choice of segregation or [compulsory] sterilization.

April 1932 Birth Control Review, pg. 108

Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race.

Woman, Morality, and Birth Control. New York: New York Publishing Company, 1922. Page 12.

We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don't want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.

Margaret Sanger's December 19, 1939 letter to Dr. Clarence Gamble, 255 Adams Street, Milton, Massachusetts. Also described in Linda Gordon's Woman's Body, Woman's Right: A Social History of Birth Control in America. New York: Grossman Publishers, 1976.

A woman's duty: To look the whole world in the face with a go-to-hell look in the eyes... to speak and act in defiance of convention.

The Woman Rebel, Volume I, Number 1

[The most penetrating thinkers] are coming to see that a qualitative factor as opposed to a quantitative one is of primary importance in dealing with the great masses of humanity.

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The panelists were former Chief Justice Edith Jones, Justices Jennifer Elrod, and Catharina Haynes. Justice Elrod and Justice Haynes served on the three-judge panel that temporarily green-lighted the law to take effect in October, reversing the injunction issued by Judge Lee Yeakel. Also, former Chief Justice Edith is no stranger to Pro-Life legislation; she wrote the 2012 opinion affirming Texas's landmark Sonogram Law.

The trial today was considering two sections of the Pro-Life omnibus bill: the requirement that abortionists receive admitting privileges from a hospital within 30 miles of where he commits abortions and the requirement that abortionists must follow the FDA protocol when administering abortion-inducing drugs.

The all-female judicial panel was extremely critical and tenaciously questioned both sides.

In one of their earlier briefs, Planned Parenthood cited research by Joseph Potter, a demographer from the University of Texas, that claimed more than 22,000 women would be unable to access an abortion once the law took effect. This prediction has proven to be inaccurate because it assumed a third of abortion clinics in Texas would be permanently closed, which the justices pointed out has not happened.

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(CNN) -- As more states pass measures tightening abortion laws, California is making abortions more accessible.

Nurse practitioners, certified nurse-midwives and physicians' assistants who complete specified training are now able to perform abortions in California. Gov. Jerry Brown signed the measure into law Wednesday.

"Governor Brown is making a commitment to Californians to continue working to make abortion services a human right and not a privilege in our state, and is also sending a strong message to the rest of the country that attacks on women's health and rights stop in California," Laura Jimenez, executive director of California Latinas for Reproductive Justice, said in a statement.

"We are proud that California is the only state in the nation right now that is passing proactive legislation to improve access to abortion, and we hope that this law can further efforts to expand access to women throughout the country."

California Assembly member Toni Atkins, who authored the bill, said the new law reduces obstacles for California women seeking abortions.

"Increasing the number of trained healthcare providers who can perform abortions on a timely basis without requiring significant travel will improve the lives of women and their families in many ways," Atkins said in a statement.

But critics say they're concerned the new law could undermine women's health.

"This bill is not about helping women, it is specifically designed to trivialize what an abortion is, and its risks,'' said Anissa Smith, spokeswoman for the California ProLife Council. "Reducing the medical standards for abortion ... defies logic for those who say they care about women."

The Most Rev. Gerald Wilkerson, president of the California Catholic Conference, said even though California makes up 12% of the nation's population, it's also where 29% of abortions take place.

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For those of us so very blessed to have raised our personal white flag in mankind's inherently fruitless struggle against the Creator, there can be no joy in watching God-deniers continue to labor under the grandest of all deceptions. Regardless of how nasty they may be as individuals, there can be only sadness, genuine pity and prayer.

Still, it is instructive.

When the atheist gives voice to his or her God-denial, it provides those in Truth a small glimpse into the same dark spirit - old as Adam - that prompted the psalmist to observe: "The fool says in his heart, 'There is no God.' They are corrupt, their deeds are vile; there is no one who does good" (Psalm 14:1).

Valerie Tarico is one such God-denier. She's on a fool's errand. A steadfast disciple to the unholy trinity of "LGBT," atheist and pro-abortion activism, Ms. Tarico proudly sits on the Board of Advocates for Planned Parenthood - America's premier one-stop-death-shop.

For "progressives" like Tarico, the term "religious fundamentalism" is a euphemism for orthodox Christianity. In a tedious, though unintentionally funny screed recently published at Salon.com under the headline: "10 signs that religious fundamentalism is going down," Ms. Tarico gives empty hope to her fellow hopeless with a word salad steeped in anti-Christian bigotry and wishful thinking. I share excerpts only because they so clearly encapsulate the broader secular-"progressive" mindset. Ms. Tarico's reflections are so hyperbolic - so far removed from reality - that they require little additional commentary.

"[T]hings are looking bright for those who would like to see humanity more grounded in science and reason," she begins. "If you are a nonbeliever in the mood for a party, here are 10 reasons to celebrate."

 

The documents also reveal evidence that Planned Parenthood is working with city officials to prevent the public from obtaining information about 911 calls that has traditionally been within the public domain.

Deficiencies cited during an inspection earlier this year included:

Included in the report were 28 pages of proposed corrective actions filed by Planned Parenthood in response to the list of deficiencies. Included in the corrective plan were defensive excuses for the recent spate of at least 25 emergency patient hospitalizations since June, 2009.

According to Planned Parenthood, there were the same number of hospital transfers during a particularly hazardous 3-month period of time in 2012 as there were in all of 2011. The increase in medical emergencies was blamed on their "newest provider" who was a "new trainee." The increased hospitalization rate was defended as a normal occurrence, stating that "for new trainees, this is expected, i.e. that transfers may be higher."