Tonya Reaves Dies, Thanks to Planned Parenthood

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Tonya Reaves, pronounced dead after abortion at Planned Parenthood

Last Friday, Tonya Reaves went to Planned Parenthood to have a cervical dilation and evacuation abortion procedure, and never made it home. She died in a hospital 12 hours after her procedure took place. Why? Abortion is a “safe and legal” procedure, right? Wrong.

Tonya went to America’s largest abortion chain for a second trimester abortion. Being that far along highly increased her risk of complications; something they may or may not have told her. Her family was heartbroken when they heard the news, as they hadn’t even know where Tonya had been. “It happened so fast. She was just fine one day and then the next day she was gone,” says her twin sister, Toni. Her family begged for answers, receiving none from Planned Parenthood. And now we know why.

New documents uncovered about this case reveal Planned Parenthood’s failure to assist Tonya following her abortion. She apparently suffered heavy bleeding after her procedure, but was not attended to until five hours later when an ambulance was called. 5 hours.  Um, who the heck leaves a suffering bleeding woman unattended for 5 hours? [Yeah, Planned Parenthood did.]

After she was taken to the ER, doctors there were not informed about her complications.  Dr. James Anderson, M.D. tells us:

“I have always had to evaluate the situation, come to my own conclusions, and initiate what I thought was appropriate treatment. This definitely created some time delays that were not in the patient’s best interest. These delays can have life-threatening implications when dealing with hemorrhage or infection.”

This delay eventually cost Tonya her life. She had been hemorrhaging, which wasn’t caught early enough by ER doctors (because PP didn’t tell them anything). After ultrasounds in the ER, they eventually found that Tonya’s uterus had been perforated, and her abortion had been incomplete, leading to more bleeding, and further complications.

After all that happened, Planned Parenthood of Illinois President and CEO Carole Brite issued a statement saying:

“While legal abortion services in the United States have a very high safety record, a tragedy such as this is devastating to loved ones and we offer our deepest sympathies. Planned Parenthood of Illinois cares deeply about the health and safety of each and every patient.”

While I assume most health care workers care about their patients, Planned Parenthood neglected a suffering woman, and caused her to die. Is that really caring? Her abortionist left her with a perforated uterus, an incomplete abortion, bleeding and alone. For 5 hours. Tonya’s family has obtained an attorney, and will possibly file a lawsuit against Planned Parenthood.

Will you help me spread the word about the danger of Planned Parenthood?

Bearing the Burden of Contraception

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Skip to 2:05 in this video, and watch Obama’s response to this question from a viewer:

“What can you say about a healthcare bill that’ll mandate insurance companies to provide birth control, sterilization, etc. to employees of Catholic universities, hospitals and churches since this goes against the Catholic religion?”

What can he say about it? First thing he says: religious freedom is critical, it’s what we were founded on. Right. Second: we exempted religious institutions, but wait! “Big” Catholic hospitals, etc. employing “a lot” of non-Catholics and receiving “a lot” of federal money have to cover contraception because it would not be “fair” for their employees to have to pay for it themselves.

Come Again??

It wouldn’t be FAIR to make people pay for medically unnecessary pills? Huh? If THAT’S not fair to make people pay for, then I think it’s high time people started paying for me to have an unnecessary car, mansion, haircuts, pedicures, and prime steaks every. single. night. Also add a years supply of Yougurtland, and a season pass to Disneyland. Make sense? I didn’t think so. You see, it’s stupid to force people pay for other people’s fancies. You want to drive a three million dollar car? You have to buy it. You want to eat expensive organic food? You have to buy it. You want to get plastic surgery? You have to buy it. You want to use contraception? Um, taxpayers have to pay for it…..WHAT?!?!

No one is entitled to contraception. And to go even farther, absolutely no one is entitled to contraception for free.

If you really want to know what’s not fair, I’ll tell you what: forcing anyone to violate their conscience, and/or their religious beliefs. Freedom is what America was founded on. It’s time to re-claim our freedoms, and speak out against this nonsense.

*And if you’ve gotten this far and are wondering why I’m against contraception in the first place, check out this site for great explanations.

How Old is Your Church?

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Found this online and had to share…[Here‘s a link to a neat table of the dates.]

 

If you are a Lutheran, Martin Luther, an apostate of the Roman Catholic Church, founded your religion in Germany, in the year 1517.

If you are a Mennonite, your church began in Switzerland with Grebel, Mantz, and Blaurock, in the year 1525.

If you belong to the Church of England, also know as Anglican, your religion began with King Henry VIII in 1534, who established his ownchurch because the Pope could not grant him a divorce with the right to remarry.

If you are a Presbyterian, your religion was founded by John Knox, in Scotland, in the year 1560.

If you are a Congregationalist, your religion was founded by Robert Brown, in Holland, in 1583.

If you are a Baptist, you owe the tenets of your religion to John Smyth, who launched it in Amsterdam, in 1606.

If you are a Unitarian, John Biddle in London founded your religion in 1645.

If you are an Episcopalian, your religion was an offshoot of the Church of England, founded by Samuel Seabury in the American Colonies in the 17th century.

If you are a Quaker, your religion was founded by George Fox, in England, in 1647.

If you are a Methodist, your religion was founded by John and Charles Wesley, in England, in 1739.

If you are a Universalist, John Murray founded your religion in New Jersey, in 1770.

If you are an Evangelical, you owe the founding of your religion to Jacob Albright, in Pennsylvania, in 1803.

If you are a Mormon (a “Latter Day Saint”), then Joseph Smith started your religion in Palmyra, New York, in 1829.

If you are a Seventh Day Adventist, your religion originated in New York, by William Miller, in 1831.

If you worship with the Salvation Army sect, then you acknowledge William Booth in London as your originator, in 1865.

If you are a Jehovah Witness, then your church was founded by Charles Taze Russell, in 1872, and renamed in 1931 by Judge Rutherford, his successor.

If you are a Christian Scientist, then Mary Baker Eddy founded your religion in Massachusetts, in 1879.

If you belong to the Assembly of God religion, then a General Assembly in Arkansas started it in 1914.

If you claim the Church of the Nazarene as your religion, then Union at General Assembly launched it in 1919.

If you are an Evangelical Reformed, then Union at General Assembly created it in 1934.

If you belong to “Pentecostal Gospel,” your religion is one of the hundreds of new sects founded by men in the last 100 years.

If you are a Roman Catholic, you know that your religion was founded in the year 33 by Our Lord Jesus Christ.

Now…does Catholicism rock or what? It’s the only religion that traces DIRECTLY back to Jesus Himself!!

Now tell me…how old is YOUR church?

Fortnight for Freedom: Day 5 – Speak Up

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Check out this fact sheet on the HHS Mandate for answers to a couple key questions on it, and great suggestions for action against it. One important thing to do: Call the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121 and ask your Congressman and U.S. Senators to support legislation overturning the HHS Mandate. Our voices will be heard if we speak up about this injustice!

What are you waiting for? Pick up the phone! Email and snail mail addresses coming soon so we can contact them as much as possible!

Also, check out this article for some great pictures from the Fortnight around the country.

Fortnight for Freedom: Day 4 – Our First, Most Cherished Liberty

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In a statement titled Our First, Most Cherished Liberty, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops tells us:

“Religious liberty is not only about our ability to go to Mass on Sunday or pray the Rosary at home. It is about whether we can make our contribution to the common good of all Americans. Can we do the good works our faith calls us to do, without having to compromise that very same faith? Without religious liberty properly understood, all Americans suffer, deprived of the essential contribution in education, health care, feeding the hungry, civil rights, and social services that religious Americans make every day, both here at home and overseas.”

This Fortnight for Freedom is not about being able to go to mass. It’s about having the freedom to live our lives according to our consciences. If that right is taken away, we have no right to live our own lives. We’d just be a bunch of bodies controlled by our government. But we’re not that weak. As Robert J. McCracken said “We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for their souls.” The faithful are standing up and saying “no” to this unjust mandate. We as Americans have a history of fighting for our freedom, and that’s not about to change.

Pray for our freedom to be protected, and spread the word about this mandate. People can only stand up against this if they know it exists. Spread the word!!