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Pro-Life Leaders Seek to Defund Planned Parenthood - February 7, 2025

Human Life Alliance's Executive Director joins other Pro-Life leaders in asking Congress to defund Planned Parenthood.

Memo from Pro-life Leaders to Members of Congress

As pro-life leaders across the United States, we write today to urge you to protect the taxpayer dollars of American citizens from funding abortion and abortion businesses such as Planned Parenthood.

American jurisprudence has consistently maintained that the legality of abortion does not create an obligation for the state to fund it.

Moreover, polling has consistently indicated that Americans do not want their tax dollars paying for abortions.

A number of Executive Actions of the Trump Administration have begun the process of protecting our tax dollars from funding abortion and abortion businesses, and a number of bills have been introduced in the 119th Congress to strengthen and expand that protection.

As leaders of pro-life groups, we represent millions of Americans who want to see such protections secured by federal law. We know that they will join their voices with ours in supporting specific efforts to end taxpayer funding of abortion and abortion businesses in America. We urge you to heed their voices and vote for all appropriate legislation to achieve that goal.

Frank Pavone - National Director, Priests for Life; President, National Pro-life Religious Council
Marjorie Dannenfelser - President, Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America
Carol Tobias - President National Right to Life Committee
Bradley Mattes - President, Life Issues Institute
Allan Parker - President, The Justice Foundation
Elizabeth Figueroa - CEO, Life Legal Defense Foundation
Thomas A. Glessner - President and Founder, National Institute of Family and Life Advocates
Anne O’Connor - Vice President, National Institute of Family and Life Advocates
Dr. Alveda King - Board Member and Senior Advisor, Priests for Life
Dr. Johnny Hunter - National Director, Life Education and Resource Network, Inc.
Cecily Routman - Founder and President, Jewish Pro-Life Foundation
Haywood J. Robinson - Director of Medical Affairs and Education, 40 Days for Life
Jeff White - Founder, Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust and Turn the Hearts
Georgette Forney - President and Co-Founder, Anglicans for Life and Silent No More Awareness Campaign
Bryan Kemper - Director and President, Stand True
Walter and Lori Hoye - Founder, Issues4Life Foundation
Andy Aplikowski - Executive Director, HumanLife.org
Jason Storms - National Director, Operation Save America
Deborah Tilden - Founder, SMART Women’s Healthcare
Mark Lee Dickson - Founder, Sanctuary Cities for the Unborn Initiative
Brendan O’Connell - President, Life Matters TV and Media, Inc.
Zina Hackworth - Founder, More Rebellious Members
Martha Shuping - MD President, Ashford Institute
Kay Lyn Carlson - President and Founder, The International Institute for Reproductive Loss
Priscilla Coleman - Researcher, The International Institute for Reproductive Loss
Christian McGrew - Director of Outreach and President, CEC for Life and Defending Life Alliance
Andrew Shirvell - Founder and Executive Director, Florida Voice for The Unborn
Connie Eller - Founder, President, and Coordinator, Missouri Blacks for Life
Faye Barnhart - Co-Founder, Colorado Life Initiative
Larry Cirignano - DC Rep, Choose-Life.org
Colleen Barry - Registered Nurse
Daphne Robinson - Founder and Executive, Atlanta Morning Center and Journey of a Lifetime
Joel Brind - Professor of Human Biology and Endocrinology, Baruch College
Tim Clement - Outreach Director, Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust
Barbara R. McLaughlin - National Institute of Family and Life Advocates
Dr. John Brown - Board Member, Issachar Imperative
Mary Brewing - Attorney, Operation Outcry

Three Lives Lost Due to Abortion Misinformation in Georgia - Commentary by Andy Aplikowski - September 19, 2024

The death of Amber Thurman is tragic but was preventable. Her son no longer has a mom. He never got to meet or play with his twin siblings because they were starved to death in the womb by Mifepristone (an abortion drug). After the babies died, a second pharmaceutical Misoprostol was used to stimulate emptying the uterus.

There’s no way for an untrained individual like Amber, forced to undergo this procedure without medical experts at home or on the road, to know if all of her babies’ remains were expelled. Women are not required to return the remains for proper safe disposal and to ensure no pregnancy tissues remain inside her, which will cause exactly what happened to Amber.

This is why the rapid increase in chemical abortion use should sound alarms. Chemical abortions accounted for 63% of the abortions in the US in 2023, up from 53% in 2020. This is only increasing the likelihood of more tragic stories like Amber’s. Meanwhile, the abortion lobby thinks a PR rebrand of ‘chemical’ abortions to ‘medical’ abortions is a solution. After all, who would dare campaign against or oppose providing ‘medical’ care to women?

To abortion advocates, eliminating restrictions and political opposition is the priority, not the safety of the women nor preborn babies. In Minnesota, Governor Walz and his party of limitless abortion have gone so far as to allow late term abortions with the PRO Act. Sadly, Walz also removed reporting requirements so we may never know how many women die from or have complications during abortions in the state.

The USA is one of only 8 United Nation member countries with no federal gestational limit on elective abortions. Only 15 UN countries, and 4 of the 50 European nations, even allow elective abortion after 15 weeks. In the USA, via federal law, abortion up to birth is legal. The dog whistle campaign from abortion advocates that any restriction on abortion is an all-out “abortion ban” is directly responsible for the misinformation and medical malpractice that led to Amber Thurman and her twin preborn babies’ deaths.

The truth is that 96% of reported US abortions in 2023, hundreds of thousands of abortions, were elective. The reasons for the other 4% were for rape, incest, risk to the lives of the mother or baby - all ‘exemptions’ that an overwhelming majority of Americans and Republicans support.

These elective abortions happen when women like Amber are either coerced or persuaded into having elective abortions because ‘it was just not a good time to give birth to a child’ or ‘it’s just a clump of cells’. We should be showering these women with love, support, resources, and life-affirming alternatives to abortion, not shoving pills at her to terminate the pregnancy.

Healthy women aborting healthy babies is not healthcare.

The D&C medical procedure denied to Amber by the Piedmont Henry Hospital after the botched chemical abortion was in fact legal. The law signed in May of 2019 by Georgia’s Republican Governor Brian Kemp did in fact allow exceptions for the life of the mother in the event of a medical emergency. Let me be clear, regardless of that, no state law, including Georgia’s, prevents a hospital from treating a woman in a medical emergency like Amber’s. This includes ectopic pregnancy, miscarriage, or a botched abortion.

What this story should do is raise awareness to the dangers of chemical abortions. In 2023 63% of the reported abortions in the US were chemical abortions using pharmaceutical drugs.

The multi-billion-dollar abortion industry has spared no expense to normalize premarital sex, the hook-up culture, infanticide, and ignoring sound medical standards, while misleading about the prolife community’s intentions. Abortion activists and lobbyists have infiltrated and coopted agencies that were intended to be watchdogs and funneled millions of dollars to politicians that are lapdogs for pharmaceutical companies and big abortion. Internet search companies have already begun the PR rebrand. Try it, search for ‘chemical abortion’ or ‘abortion drugs’. You’ll see ‘medical abortion’ as the top result now. That’s by design!

Inconvenience is no reason to kill a preborn human being and the limitless abortion we now have in Minnesota is abhorrent. There are alternatives to abortion. Child credits, adoption, pregnancy resource centers, and maternity homes are all proven options for mothers and parents facing unexpected pregnancies.

Healthy women aborting healthy babies is not healthcare. If we can agree to that, we can prevent tragedies like Amber Thurman’s.

Come learn the truth about abortion and how to confidently communicate your pro-life values. Hear from experts on life-affirming alternatives to abortion and physician-assisted suicide then get trained by Leadership Institute to make an impact in your community.

June 15, 2024

9:00 AM-5:00 PMCT

Mounds View, Minnesota

Speakers:

Andy Aplikowski Human Life Alliance

Dena Espenscheid Leadership Institute

Dr. Susan Bane AAPLOG

Brian Gibson Pro-Life Action Minisitries

Michelle Besnon Ethical Care MN

Jason Adkins Catholic Conference

Rebecca DeLahunt MN Family Council

"To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others." - Tony Robbins

Hear from experts on life-affirming alternatives to abortion and physician-assisted suicide, as well as learn how to communicate a pro-life message and win for life effectively.

The Culture of Life can only be promoted if good people take steps to educate and empower themselves on how to talk about these important topics with others. This summit will embolden you to be proudly pro-life!

Pre-registration is required for all attendees. This event is free, but space and food are limited. Walk-ins may not be allowed.

To find more information and to register, click here.

This week, HLA’s Executive Director, Andy Aplikowski, spoke out against assisted suicide at the Minnesota Capitol. You can watch his testimony before the committee here.

Read HLA’s written testimony against assisted suicide.

We are so grateful for the Minnesotans who showed up to speak up for medically vulnerable individuals who would be threatened by this legislation. Please consider contacting your state and federal legislators and urging them to protect life in your state.

At the hearing, Blessing Griswold, a college student who uses HLA’s materials on campus, shared her reasons for opposing Minnesota’s assisted suicide legislation. Blessing has suffered from daily migraines for three years. She shared with the committee how the mentality behind assisted suicide sends the message that the lives of people with daily pain are less valuable. "If a physically healthy person becomes suicidal, the first response of friends and family is to find help. Why not the terminally ill?" she asked.

Assisted suicide is based on the poisonous lie that not all lives are equally valuable and that some lives aren’t worth living. Instead of offering genuine support and compassion for people who are experiencing pain and sickness, it offers death.

HLA stands for the sanctity of all human life and is committed to equipping the pro-life community to get involved and defend life from the moment of fertilization to natural death.

Request HLA’s Imposed Death magazine today!

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