"Abortion Hurts Women" Now Hate Speech

Ah, the holiday season along Market Street. Snowflakes hanging from lamp posts. Store windows filled with red and green. Banners reading, “Abortion hurts women.”

Yes, for the second time in two years, the city’s main thoroughfare has become a hotbed of "anger" and finger-pointing over abortion-related banners.

In January 2012, a local pro-choice group called the Silver Ribbon Campaign to Trust Women sponsored banners with slogans including “U.S. Out of My Uterus.” An antiabortion group called Life Legal Defense Foundation demanded the city take them down, saying they shouldn’t have been issued permits because they weren’t advertising a particular event. The Department of Public Works said they were legit read the link if you want the whole story and left them up, though vandals removed some.

Now, it appears the shoe is on the other foot. Or the banner on the other lamp post? A group called Walk for Life West Coast, which is organizing its 10th annual antiabortion march in San Francisco on January 25, has placed 50 banners along Market Street reading “Abortion hurts women.” They will be flying for about a month.

The Silver Ribbon Campaign to Trust Women wrote a letter to Mayor Ed Lee this week saying the banners contain “a false and hateful statement” and demanded they be removed.

Ellen Shaffer, director of the Silver Ribbon Campaign, said she considers the banners hate speech against women and that such baseless slogans contributed to an increased denial of reproductive health care for women and girls. She said Market Street now is lined with “Snowflakes — snowflakes and lies. It’s really a shock.”

A call to Walk for Life West Coast was not returned.
Rachel Gordon, spokeswoman for the Department of Public Works, which issued the permits for the banners, said the department ensures proposed signs don’t include profanity or nudity, but the content of the message is not otherwise considered.

Francis Tsang, a spokesman for Lee, said the mayor’s office won’t be getting involved in the banner brouhaha.

“Mayor Lee is a staunch, longtime defender of a woman’s right to choose and disagrees strongly with the message of the banners, but the mayor’s disapproval obviously doesn’t and shouldn’t trump the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution,” Tsang said.

(sfgate)

David Greenfield Voted That Congress (You) Should Pay For Abortions

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 So David Greenfield want's congress to pay for "Comprehensive Reproductive Health Care" which includes abortions!

Read about some of David Greenfield's other anti Torah votes supporting toevah "marriage", supporting Late Term Abortions.

Do You Want To Pay For Abortions?
Vote Against Greenfield Tuesday November 5th

Major Newspapers Reject Pro-Life Ad, But Have No Problem With Killing Babys

rejected anti-abortion advertisement

 

Major Newspapers Reject Pro-Life Ad as ‘Too Controversial’

The Chicago Tribune, USA Today, and the L.A. Times have refused to run an anti-abortion ad that depicts a 20-week-old baby held in a person’s palm, accompanied by the words, “This child has no voice, which is why it depends on yours.” 

The pro-life group Heroic Media intended to use the ad to encourage the U.S. Senate to pass the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, approved by the House last month, but it was rejected by the three major newspapers as “too controversial.”

“It seems as though it is okay to talk about the issue in general, but when you actually put a face to the discussion, then it becomes controversial,” says Heroic Media Executive Director Joe Young.

The Chicago Tribune has agreed to run a different image — a 20-week baby in utero — but demanded that it be made clear that the image is an advertisement for legislation

Chicago Tribune's replacement ad

The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act  would prohibit abortions nationwide after 20 weeks, the developmental point at which babies in the womb can experience pain except in the case of the mother's life being endangered, rape, and incest. The bill, which has met with considerable controversy, passed the House 228–196, and will likely never see a vote in the Democrat-controlled Senate.
(National Review)

"Orthodox" Phillip Goldfeder Votes For Biggest Abortion Bill Ever

"Orthodox" Phillip Goldfeder former aide to Michael Bloomberg and Charles Schumer, and current Far Rockway assemblyman voted for the biggest abortion bill in NY State history.

Gay NY State Senator Wants To Ban Conversion Therapy, No Word Yet On Abortion

Gay NY State Senator from Greenwich Village who want to ban What almost 200 Rabbis said is a chiyuv to try!

 It remains to be seen if he will also ban Abortion for a minor!
or at least force a parental consent or notification.

(read the bill)
ALBANY - The state Senate’s only openly gay lawmaker wants to outlaw a controversial therapy that attempts to make gay youth straight.

Legislation introduced Friday by Sen. Brad Hoylman (D-Manhattan) would bar mental health providers from trying to change the sexual orientation of anyone under the age of 18.

If enacted, a licensed mental health provider who ignored the law would be cited for unprofessional conduct and subject to licensing sanctions.
Hoylman will co-sponsor the bill in the Senate with Michael Gianaris (D-Queens). It is being carried in the Assembly by Deborah Glick, a Manhattan Democrat who is a lesbian.

Conversion therapy has been rejected by many in the mental health community.

Hoylman, who is "married" to a man and has a two-year-old daughter, said the controversial treatment is not good for the individual or society.

“It not only is impossible, but it is detrimental to young people to attempt to convert them,” he said.
“It also increases the stigma in society and creates a culture of unacceptance for young gay and lesbian people,” Hoylman added.

California last year enacted a similar law barring the controversial therapy, but the measure is on hold while it’s being challenged in the courts.

The Rev. Jason McGuire, executive director of New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms, doesn’t believe a New York law would pass legal or ethical muster.

“I simply believe that those in the homosexual community should recognize that there is a significant population in that community that want to leave that lifestyle and pursue a heterosexuality lifestyle,” McGuire said. “People should respect their choice to pursue that.”

(Daily News)

Rick Santorum Warns Republicans That Caving On Marriage Is Suicidal

A “chastened” U.S. Supreme Court won’t make the mistake of granting same-sex "marriage" rights, former presidential candidate Rick Santorum predicted in an interview Monday.

“I think you’ll see, hopefully, a chastened Supreme Court is not going to make the same mistake in the (current) cases as they did in Roe v. Wade,” which legalized abortion, Santorum told The Des Moines Register in a telephone interview. “I’m hopeful the Supreme Court learned its lesson about trying to predict where the American public is going on issues and trying to find rights in the Constitution that sit with the fancy of the day.”
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on two major same-sex "marriage" cases last month, and rulings are expected by June.
Santorum, a religious conservative who won the 2012 GOP Iowa caucuses by 34 votes, will be in Iowa Monday to speak at the spring fundraiser for the Iowa Faith & Freedom Coalition, a nonprofit group that presses for Christian principles in government.
Asked about his plans to seek the GOP presidential nomination in 2016, he said: “I haven’t made any decisions.” The father of seven said the decision would depend on his personal life and the political scene in the next election cycle.
Santorum is coming to Iowa next week to say that although some Republicans here and elsewhere are now publicly backing "marriage" rights for same-sex couples, the party will never embrace that.
“One of the things I learned from the last four years is that when you go to Iowa, people pay attention to what you say,” he said. “That’s always a gift that Iowa can bring to any person in public life. We’re going to talk about the concerns I have.”
There’s obviously “an increasing mood” on supporting gay "marriage", but “it is not a well thought-out position by the American public,” Santorum said.
Asked what he thinks about the two Midwest Republican senators who have recently backed gay "marriage", Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio and Sen. Mark Kirk of Illinois, Santorum said some Republicans splintered off in the late 1960s and early 1970s to support abortion rights when the courts “started mucking around with pro-life statutes at the state level.”
“I’m sure you could go back and read stories, oh, you know, ‘The Republican Party’s going to change. This is the future.’ Obviously that didn’t happen,” Santorum said. “I think you’re going to see the same stories written now, and it’s not going to happen. The Republican Party’s not going to change on this issue. In my opinion it would be suicidal if it did.”
It’s healthy to talk about how the party can best communicate its message, he said, but “it’s another thing to change those foundational principles. Just because some of those things happen to be popular right now doesn’t mean the Republican Party should follow suit,” he said.

Post Birth "Abortions"

Abortion doc’s assistant testifies she snipped spines of ‘at least 10 babies’ as Kermit Gosnell’s capital murder trial begins

Dr. Gosnell, a Philadelphia abortion clinic owner, on trials in the deaths of a patient and seven babies. Prosecutors accuse Gosnell of killing late-term, viable babies after they were delivered alive.

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Dr. Kermit Gosnell is on trial for eight counts of murder stemming from alleged incidents at his Philadelphia abortion clinic.

PHILADELPHIA — A medical assistant told a jury Tuesday that she snipped the spines of at least 10 babies during unorthodox abortions at a West Philadelphia clinic. And she said Dr. Kermit Gosnell and another employee did the same to terminate pregnancies.
Adrienne Moton’s testimony came in the capital murder trial of Gosnell, the clinic owner, who is on trial in the deaths of a patient and seven babies. Prosecutors accuse him of killing late-term, viable babies after they were delivered alive, in violation of state abortion laws.
Gosnell’s lawyer denies the murder charge and disputes that any babies were born alive. He also challenges the gestational age of the aborted fetuses, calling them inexact estimates.

Moton, the first employee to testify, sobbed as she recalled taking a cellphone photograph of one baby left in her work area. She thought he could have survived, given his size and pinkish color. She had measured him at nearly 30 weeks.
“The aunt felt it was just best for her (the mother’s) future,” Moton testified.
Gosnell later joked that the baby was so big he could have walked to the bus stop, she said.

Jurors saw Moton’s photograph on a large screen in the courtroom, which took on a bizarre look Tuesday as she testified near a hospital bed with stirrups and other aging obstetric equipment. Denied the chance to bring jurors to the shuttered inner-city clinic, prosecutors are instead recreating a patient room in court.
Moton, 35, sobbed as she described her work at the clinic. Because of problems at home, she had moved in with Gosnell and his third wife during high school, and she went to work for him from 2005 to 2008. She earned about $10 an hour, off the books, to administer drugs, perform sonograms, help with abortions and dispose of fetal remains. Workers got $20 bonuses for second-term abortions on Saturdays, when a half-dozen were sometimes performed.

She once had to kill a baby delivered in a toilet, cutting its neck with scissors, she said. Asked if she knew that was wrong, she said, “At first I didn’t.”

Abortions are typically performed in utero. In Pennsylvania, abortions cannot legally be performed after the 24th week of pregnancy.
Moton has pleaded guilty to third-degree murder, which carries a 20- to 40-year term, as well as conspiracy and other charges. She has been in prison since early 2011, when Philadelphia prosecutors released the harrowing grand jury report on Gosnell’s Women’s Medical Center and arrested the doctor, wife Pearl and eight current or former employees. Most of them are expected to testify.
Women and teens came from across the mid-Atlantic, often seeking late-term abortions, Moton said. She recalled one young woman from Puerto Rico who did not speak English and appeared to be 27 weeks pregnant.

One patient, a 41-year-old refugee, died after an overdose of drugs allegedly given to her during a 2009 abortion.
Defense lawyer Jack McMahon told jurors in opening statements Monday that Gosnell, now 72, returned to the impoverished neighborhood after medical school when he could have struck it rich in the suburbs. He called the prosecution of his client, who is black, “a lynching.”
But prosecutors believe Gosnell made plenty of money over a 30-year career using cheap, untrained staff, outdated medicines and barbaric techniques to perform abortions on desperate, low-income women.
And they say he made even more on the side running a “pill mill,” where addicts and drug dealers could get prescriptions for potent painkillers. Authorities found $250,000 in cash at his home when they searched it in 2010.
McMahon is set to cross-examine Moton on Tuesday afternoon.

Dr. Kermit Gosnell's defense attorney Jack McMahon walks to the Criminal Justice Center, Monday, March 18, 2013, in Philadelphia. Gosnell, an abortion doctor who catered to minorities, immigrants and poor women at the Women's Medical Society, is on trial for eight counts of murder.