May 23, 2012

Bellevue, NE - A botched abortion patient can be heard moaning in obvious distress during newly obtained recordings of two 911 calls placed on Saturday, March 31, 2012, from LeRoy Carhart's Abortion and Contraceptive Clinic of Nebraska, located in Bellevue, a suburb of Omaha. The recordings and witness statements indicate that Carhart may be breaking the Nebraska ban on late-term abortions after 20 weeks.

911-Moans, Screams Heard From Botched Abortion Victim At Carhart's NE Clinic
The abortion worker who placed the initial call specifically asked that an ambulance be sent with "no lights or sirens."

The recordings, obtained by Operation Rescue through an open records request, show that clinic workers were uncooperative and slow to give information about the patient's condition to the emergency dispatcher.

The caller, who said she knew nothing of the patient's condition, questioned the nurse, Lindsey (Alejandro) Creekmore, in the procedure room in an attempt to get information to the dispatcher that was needed in order to get the woman the help she needed.

"What's going on, Lindsey?" the caller asked. "They want to know. 911 wants to know. They want to know what's going on. I need an answer."

A witness that was at the scene when the ambulance arrived stated, "I saw a woman, who looked like she was quite pregnant, clutching her stomach as she was put into the ambulance. She had a drape below her belly."

Police told witnesses to the indent that the woman was transported to the Bellevue Medical Center where she was treated.

Late-term abortionist Leroy Carhart was present at the time of the medical emergency in March, but did not participate in the 911 calls. He was involved in the 3rd trimester abortion death of a patient in 2005.

"Based on this incident, there is concern that Carhart may be violating the Nebraska ban on late-term abortions after 20 weeks when babies can feel pain," said Troy Newman, president of Operation Rescue and Pro-Life Nation.

"This is particularly troubling since the Nebraska Attorney General's office is very aware that Carhart may be breaking the law. Operation Rescue has submitted several statements by former Carhart employees and supplied then with information from other confidential informants who have alleged violations ranging from billing fraud to missing drugs to falsifying ultrasound measurements for the purpose of evading the late-term abortion ban. Yet, all we have gotten from the supposedly pro-life Attorney General Jon Bruning is the 'run-around'. The injury of this woman is directly Bruning's responsibility because he had the opportunity to protect women from Carhart's dangerous abortion practices, but did nothing."

Operation Rescue has released a video featuring the 911 recordings and a written transcript of the calls .
Please contact Attorney General Jon Bruning and ask him to fully investigate Carhart's Bellevue abortion business.
Attorney General Jon Bruning
Phone: (402) 471-2682
Fax: (402) 471-3297
E-mail: http://www.ago.ne.gov/contact_form

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APPLETON — As surgeons prepared to connect Alejandra Anacieto Gregorio to a maze of life-sustaining tubes and wires, one pair of gloved hands gently removed a child's rosary from around her neck, carefully avoiding a life-threatening lesion the size of a softball covering half the 14-year-old girl's face.

The rosary, its pink leather cord holding a brightly painted medallion of the Blessed Virgin, was then wrapped several times around Alejandra's wrist.

Over the next eight hours, as a medical team at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin in Milwaukee successfully removed the lesion from her face,

Alejandra, unaware the rosary was now on her wrist, would dream twice of meeting Jesus.

Leticia Santiago Geniesse of Appleton purchased the rosary for Alejandra months earlier during a visit to the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe near Mexico City. The shrine marks the spot where the Virgin Mary appeared to peasant Juan Diego in 1531.

'A girl of huge faith'

"Mexicans are very devoted to Our Lady of Guadalupe. And Alejandra is a girl of huge faith," Leticia said.

Leticia believes the visit to the basilica, and a Feb. 18, 2012, visit to the Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help in Champion, produced a medical miracle for Alejandra.

"There is no doubt in my mind God intervened when all the doors seemed closed to getting help for Alejandra. There is no doubt it was a miracle," Leticia said.

Alejandra, the lesion now all but invisible, expects to reunite in two weeks with her parents and nine siblings in their remote home in the Mexican village of Citlaltepec.

"Our Lady of Guadalupe helps everyone during the most difficult moments," Alejandra said six weeks after the surgery. Without the procedure, physicians had given her a year to live.

Alejandra, who is back to wearing the rosary, suffers from a condition known as arteriovenous malformation or AVM.

Normally, blood flows away from the heart through a series of blood vessels. Arteries take blood to a network of capillaries, small blood vessels that distribute blood, water and nutrients to the body. The blood returns to the heart through veins. With AVM, the capillaries are missing. Blood flows directly from arteries to the veins, putting pressure on and grossly enlarging the veins, resulting in large growths, or lesions in the skin. The enlarged veins periodically burst in a painful break, in Alejandra's case shooting blood up to four feet from the wound.

Journey begins in 2007

Alejandra's journey to the United States and northeast Wisconsin for treatment began five years ago in 2007 when Peggy Wydeven of Little Chute accompanied her daughter, Sarah, then a student at St. John School, to Citlaltepec.

St. John had a standing sister-school relationship with Citlaltepec schools. As part of a Girl Scout Gold Award project, Sarah Wydeven raised money to buy computers, sports equipment, T-shirts and other items for the Mexican children.

"We thought it would be good to take Sarah to Citlaltepec to see where the children live," Peggy Wydeven said.

Leticia, who is also from Citlaltepec, volunteered to serve as a guide.

"That's when we first became aware of Alejandra. She was still 9 years old and had a protruding growth on her face," Peggy Wydeven said. "When we got home I couldn't stop thinking about Alejandra."

Efforts began at St. John's to bring Alejandra to the United States for medical treatment of her condition, misdiagnosed in Mexico as a less serious blood tumor.

Wydeven contacted the Wisconsin chapter of Healing the Children, a non-profit organization dedicated to finding donated medical care for children in need.

"They have clout," Wydeven said.

In 2008, efforts began to bring Alejandra to Wisconsin for treatment. As part of that effort, Leticia and her husband, Peter, agreed to become Alejandra's foster parents. In the meantime, Alejandra had a prophetic and reassuring dream.

"In her dream, Alejandra was playing with her brother, Francisco, in a forest near their home in Citlaltepec when a vision of Pope John Paul II appeared," said Leticia. "Francisco asked John Paul to help his sister. John Paul looked at Alejandra and said 'I will help you, but you have to go to the United States.' She told John Paul she would do it. From that point on her faith was strong that she would get the medical help she needed."

Alejandra arrives in Wisconsin

Once she arrived in Wisconsin in September of 2011, Wydeven said, local physicians soon discovered Alejandra suffered not from a blood clot, but from AVM and periodic heavy bleeding from ruptured blood vessels.

"They told us she could die from the next big bleed," Wydeven said.

Medical experts from as far away as Colorado and Children's Hospital of Boston wrestled over possible treatments ranging from risky surgery to regular embolizations, a never-ending process of sealing off blood flow from the ruptured lesions.

After several embolizations over five months, the predicted big bleed came on Feb. 25, a week after Leticia and Alejandra visited the shrine in Champion with other family members.

Visit to shrine at Champion

"We were in Door County and went to the Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help because we thought it would be a good opportunity to ask again for a cure," Leticia said. "We kneeled together and prayed for a cure or at least for something to happen. It was a desperation moment. There was pressure from Alejandra's parents who wanted her back in Mexico, but it seemed like there was no open door."

The Feb. 25 bleed, God's miracle in the eyes of Leticia, required an hours-long embolization procedure to fix and forced the hands of physicians weighing the risks of various treatments, Wydeven said.

"It's like God intervened. All the politics got pushed aside," Wydeven said.

Alejandra was taken by ambulance from Theda Clark Medical Center in Neenah to Children's Hospital in Milwaukee.

Doctors remove lesion

By March 25, Alejandra was moved from intensive care to surgery, undergoing a five-hour embolization to seal blood flow to the center of the lesion covering the left side of her face, including part of her lips and ear.

That procedure was followed by a nearly four-hour operation to remove the lesion as well as dead and dying tissue.

During her eight-plus hours on the operating table, Alejandra told Leticia she dreamed twice of seeing Jesus.

"In her first dream, Jesus was standing in front of her home under a tree. She heard birds singing and said everything looked so beautiful. She saw his image but didn't know who he was right away. He said 'Don't worry. Don't be afraid. I will take care of you,'" Leticia said. "As she told me of her dream her face was so beautiful. She was looking up like she wasn't really there. I don't know how to explain it."

In her second dream, Alejandra was joined by her siblings and parents inside her Citlaltepec home.

"She said everyone was very happy," Leticia said. "Alejandra was hiding behind her mom when her mom took her hand and said 'Alejandra. Come see this. This is the Almighty.' There was so much light behind the image, then he opened his arms and she wasn't afraid anymore."

Returning to Mexico

Wydeven said Alejandra has an appointment at Children's Hospital May 18 and if everything checks out, she will likely return to Mexico with Leticia the following week.

"Alejandra still has some lesion by her lips and nose, but the doctors hope it will go dormant and she'll have decades to live," Wydeven said.

Alejandra, who is learning English as a second language while attending Roosevelt Middle School in Appleton, now loves to look in the mirror and smile broadly. She is looking forward to going home.

"I'm happy. I prayed to the Virgin Mary, God, Jesus and Pope John Paul II. It helped me not to be scared and the surgery went well. And I'm going home to see my family soon," she said. "I'm going to share a lot of new things with my family. I'm going to tell them about all my experiences in the United States."

Leticia said she will be sad to see Alejandra leave for Mexico.

"I don't want to think about it. For our three children, she is their sister," Leticia said. "But everything has happened that needed to happen."

Supporters claim miracle led to Alejandra's survival

Alejandra Gregorio is pictured with her foster mother, Leticia Geniesse of Appleton, left,
and Peggy Wydeven, a board member of Healing the Children of Milwaukee.
Alejandra recently underwent surgery in Milwaukee to remove a life-threatening lesion from her face.

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Denver, Colo., May 22, 2012 / 12:59 pm (CNA).- A Canadian pro-life group is retracing the steps that abortion activists took in the country during the 1970s, but with the goal of repealing local abortion laws.

“We want to take the language for choice and then expose it,” Stephanie Gray, executive director of the Canadian Center for Bio-ethical Reform, told CNA May 16.

The group, which is dedicated to “making abortion unthinkable” by engaging the public in discussions about the reality of abortion, will undertake its most ambitious campaign yet on May 29 with a cross-country educational tour.

The New Abortion Caravan will follow in the footsteps of abortion activists who engaged the public with a nearly identical campaign, called the Abortion Caravan, in the summer of 1970 to gain free abortions on demand and repeal pro-life laws.

By using disturbing imagery, having women to share emotional accounts of their experience with illegal abortion and presenting the act as a fundamental women's right, the abortion advocates were able to achieve their goal.

The original Abortion Caravan, which visited provinces from Ottawa to Vancouver, significantly contributed to the repeal of anti-abortion laws 18 years later, resulting in free abortions on demand, paid for with Canadian taxes, through all nine months of pregnancy.

Gray is confident that the new tour – which follows the same route and is part of the organization's larger campaign called End the Killing – will contribute to Canadians overturning abortion laws in the year 2030, precisely 18 years from now.

“We can end the killing and we can end it in our lifetime,” Gray said.

She noted that using similar rhetoric as abortion advocates is key, adding that the New Abortion Caravan hopes to “shift the debate from an abstract notion of choice” to the reality of abortion as “an act of violence which kills a baby.”

During their tour, the group will use graphic imagery, give educational talks and provide testimonies from women who have had abortions to expose the reality of the violence of the procedure.

Whereas the original campaign ended on Mother's Day in order to present the movement as a women's rights issue, the new campaign will end on July 1, Canada Day, to frame abortion as a violation of human rights.

“If someone would harm a toddler, wouldn't you intervene to stop that act of injustice from occurring?”

In the same way, abortion, is simply the killing of children who “are just a little bit younger, less developed and more dependent than toddlers,” Gray explained.

Although the tone and imagery of the campaign may seem extreme, Gray said that her staff must be “good ambassadors” of the truth and love.

Above all, they need to, “communicate that harshness, which can't be changed, because abortion is harsh,” while at the same time practicing empathy, compassion and being good listeners.

Founded in 2001, the center now employs a team of 19 young Canadians who are dedicated to “making abortion unthinkable in our lifetime.” To that end, the group sponsors talks, demonstrations, and campaigns throughout the year that are meant to “engage the culture directly about who the pre-born child is.”

The organization has had surprisingly favorable feedback from various programs, especially with their high school talks.

“We find that we get such a positive, transformative response from students because they typically haven't been exposed to the pro-life message.”

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Abortion doc: Women live with guilt

Posted: 22 May 2012 11:05 AM PDT
German Pablo Cardoso, a well-known abortion doctor in Argentina, said that every woman who undergoes an abortion is burdened with “sorrow” and guilt.

DC ponders late abortion ban

Posted: 22 May 2012 08:45 AM PDT
Medical experts have voiced support for legislation to ban abortion in the nation’s capital after 20 weeks, the age at which many scientists believe an unborn child is capable of feeling pain.

NFP: They Just Don't Get It

Posted: 22 May 2012 06:07 AM PDT
Rather than taking a pill or wearing a patch, natural family planning — or NFP — relies on women monitoring changes in their menstrual cycle that indicate when they are most fertile. Women, Smith said, use the latest science, instead of ingesting or injecting it.

DC Comics Planning to 'Out' Batman as Gay?

Posted: 22 May 2012 06:03 AM PDT
DC Comics plans to reintroduce a character as gay in a future issue, it has been revealed.Co-publisher Dan DiDio previously said that the company would not change the sexual orientation of an existing superhero and would bring in a new one altogether.

Common chemicals may impair male fertility

Posted: 22 May 2012 05:29 AM PDT
For men who received FSH test results indicating they have impaired fertility, common environmental chemicals may be to blame, according to a new study published in the International Journal of Andrology.

Pastor's Anti-Gay Sermon Spurs Protests

Posted: 22 May 2012 04:45 AM PDT
A North Carolina pastor's sermon in which he called for gays and lesbians to be placed in a form of concentration camp has spurred a protest planned at the church this Sunday.

Father blames hospital for baby's death
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Posted: 22 May 2012 02:58 AM PDT
An investigation was underway Saturday into the death of a baby who was born in a hospital waiting room in England.
Baby receives world's smallest artificial heart

Posted: 21 May 2012 05:51 PM PDT
Italian doctors in March implanted the smallest ever artificial heart into a 16-month-old baby before the infant received a permanent organ donation, said the hospital that performed the operation.

Years ago my children used to enjoy hearing Winnie the Pooh’s sidekick, Tigger, sing: 

The wonderful thing about Tiggers
Is Tiggers are wonderful things . . .
They’re bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy
Fun, fun, fun, fun, fun . . .
But the most wonderful thing about Tiggers is I’m the only one

There never has been another Tigger. And just as the wonderful thing about Tigger is that he was the only one, the wonderful thing about ethics is that there should only be one standard. Yet, society has created ethics standards that are changing—and it’s telling its members that this is OK. Indeed, that change should happen and that we should embrace it. 

As many of us know, there should never be more than one standard of ethics. Yet currently we have a mishmash of ethical frameworks—commonly referred to as bioethics—regulating everything from human embryonic stem cell research to abortion and dying. There is nothing wonderful about this scenario. 

While the mainstream media would deny that there is ethical duplicity afoot, an honest mind cannot ignore the documented facts about how America is slowly depersonalizing the individual. The defense of this creeping disregard for the human person comes under the guise of personal faith. What this means in practice is that there are often no right or wrong answers. It’s up to the individual to determine what he/she feels is right or wrong.

Perhaps such a position is convenient, but is it logical? Whatever happened to objective truth? It is simply easier in today’s culture to deny the existence of natural law ethics in order to justify the heinous acts of others. 

Today the gravely ill are invited to sign forms such as the Physician’s Order for Life Sustaining Treatment (POLST). This is a huge mistake! Research shows that what is being promoted to the patient as a means of determining one’s own fate is, in fact, a method for making certain that death is imposed at a time set by the caregiver, not the patient. Professor E. Christian Brugger has called POLST a “living will on steroids,” and has warned that many who sign it have no idea how powerful the document can be. Not only that, but he suggests that POLST is “fiscally driven” as well.

If money is becoming more important than patient care, whose ethics are these?

In the Journal of Medical Ethics, Catherine Constable argues that those patients who are diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state should not be given artificial nutrition and hydration because she denies that a PVS patient has an “interest” in living. She concludes, “Life cannot benefit them.” 

Would she be willing to say that to people who have made miraculous recoveries from this diagnosis, like Steven Thorpe? Or is he just another disinterested dead person? 

Whose ethics are these?

In the field of genetics there is an evolving interest in identifying certain genes that cause disabilities in born people so that such people can be “put out of their misery” prior to birth. As Kurt Kondrich, father of precious nine-year-old Down syndrome child Chloe, tells his readers, 

When a society obsessed with perfection labels certain unique genetic codes as “risk,” it becomes very easy for people to classify children with disabilities as less than desirable. If [more than] 90 percent of children diagnosed prenatally with autism, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, Tourette syndrome, schizophrenia, and other language difficulties were terminated, I wonder what the outcry would be. As expectant parents receive more genetic updates, will they become more inclined to abort and try again when they are told their unborn child contains a “risk gene”? As children with disabilities disappear from our culture, then so will the light that they bring to so many. 

Again, I ask: Whose ethics are these? 

“Converging and emerging technology” professions that today seek to produce superior classes of “people” for the “future,” and subjugate or eliminate those they consider inferior, create their own belief system. Global bioethics organizations based on transhumanism, futurism, technoprogressivism, postnaturalism, etc., find traditional ethics too restrictive when addressing subjects such as “designer babies,” surrogate mothers, “human enhancement,” human genetic engineering, robotics (including part humans/part machines), artificial intelligences, etc. These people are hard at work creating yet another brand of “ethics” to justify such activities.  

My final example of this mishmash comes from Slate, which published an article dealing with selective reduction—a practice that involves prenatal abortion of some, but not all, babies. The writer explained, “Ethics, by definition, change with circumstance.” In her view, the decision to choose how many babies should be allowed to live is up to the expectant mother and no one else.

Whose ethics is she writing about? 

These ethics, or lack thereof, are of the fungible sort that defy logic and common sense.

Professor Dianne Irving addressed this sad situation by exposing the differences between the muddled bioethics I have noted above versus “an ethics which is objectively grounded on our very human natures, on what we know empirically is either harmful or good for us as human beings.”

The differences are stark.

I believe Tigger had the right idea—that only one is the real deal. He never changed his stripes! In the same way, we must never change our stripes or allow society to change them for us. We must demand fidelity to true ethics that never change. Nothing else will suffice.

WASHINGTON, May 22, 2012 /Christian Newswire/ -- "Neither my great-grandfather an NAACP founder, my grandfather Dr. Martin Luther King, Sr. an NAACP leader, my father Rev. A. D. Williams King, nor my uncle Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. embraced the homosexual agenda that the current NAACP is attempting to label as a civil rights agenda," said Dr. Alveda C. King, founder of King for America and Pastoral Associate for Priests for Life.

"In the 21st Century, the anti-traditional marriage community is in league with the anti-life community, and together with the NAACP and other sympathizers, they are seeking a world where homosexual marriage and abortion will supposedly set the captives free," King added.

"Many Black people are realizing just how far off the mark the NAACP is with regard to the real issues and the most important problems facing the black community," said Dr. Day Gardner, founder of the National Black Prolife Union. "The NAACP organization was founded by blacks who had an understanding and strong faith in God. They were people -- pastors and congregations who knew that the Bible -- which is God's final word -- was indeed very clear on the immorality and wages of homosexuality and abortion. It is appalling that this one time super hero 'civil rights' organization supports the breakdown of traditional marriage and the ruthless killing of our unborn children -- as a civil right," Gardner said. "In its decision to please the world, the NAACP has turned its back on the things of God, therefore, we must encourage those who know the truth to speak out -- to stand firmly on the solid rock -- to not look to the right or to the left. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said: Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter," said Gardner.

Pastor Stephen Broden, Pastor of Fair Park Bible Fellowship in Dallas, TX said, "The black community is suffering from soaring unemployment, an extraordinarily high rate of abortions, a high school drop out rate among black teenagers that is breathtaking, an exploding rate of single parent households and the decimation of black families -- yet, the NAACP is making statements about same sex marriage. The NAACP has proven again to be an irrelevant organization as it relates to issues of survival for the black community."

King, Gardner and Broden are all authors in a new book LIFE AT ALL COSTS which addresses issues such as abortion and homosexuality. Other authors of the book write compelling articles on the subject:

"The homosexual community is demanding that their lifestyle be legitimized and viewed by society as a lifestyle that is right. We are subjected to the distasteful alignment of homosexuality with the 'Civil Rights Movement and with the argument that gay rights should be guaranteed under the Constitution. These two issues are incompatible." Rev. Clenard Childress, www.blackgenocide.org.

"My community seems to have more churches than any other community in America, described as 'most religious,' but by their vote support the most anti-Christian agenda in the history of this nation, including the abortion and homosexual agenda." Elder Levon Yuille, Pastor of The Bible Church, Ypsilanti, MI and founder of The National Black Prolife Congress.

Agreeing with Dr. Alveda King, the leaders further express concerns that the abortion agenda and the homosexual agenda are aligned.

"As a person who values human life, I feel very troubled that the youngest of our communities are not guaranteed the opportunity to have their day in the sun. As I speak to churches over half the states in America and abroad, I have seen people weep as they are confronted with the horrors of this holocaust. Still, the destruction continues." Dr. Johnny Hunter, National Director of LEARN.

The issue of gay or homosexual marriage has divided the black community, with many religious leaders opposing it. In California, exit polls showed about 70 percent of blacks opposed same-sex marriage in 2008.

"It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish."
Mother Teresa