Pregnancy Care Center    105 W. Pecan, Sherman  903-839-9099

Grayson County Health Dept.   515 N Walnut St, Sherman  903-893-0131

Texoma Health Clinic   900 N Armstrong Ave, Denison   903-465-2240

Women’s Health Associates  2907 Overland Trail Suite 200, Sherman   903-892-1005

With the so much mis-information and bias in the news it can be confusing on who to trust. Despite the recent Planned Parenthood media stunt condemming their financial contributor Susan G. Komen Cancer Research Foundation and the subsequent threats to ruin them the mainstream media hasn’t missed a beat in promoting more falsehoods about the abortion industry. Because SGK is a steward of the money raised for a worthy cause they decided not to continue funding manual breast screening offered by Planned Parenthood in favor of more cost effective prevention methods. Planned Parenthood does not offer mammograms and never has. Also, SGK originally stated that because Planned Parenthood is currently the focus of a congressional investigation, and multiple affiliates are under state investigations that they would stop funding.

Planned Parenthood receives over $1 million every day from our gov’t (tax dollars) and they have effectively used it for public relations to manufacture a false sense that “poor women would die” without them.  The main stream media joined in with nothing resembling journalism, complaining that SGK was being bullied by rightwing religous fanatics. They just regurgitated Planned Parenthood’s talking points and highlighted liberal’s opinions,  ignoring the fact that this was just SGK’s attempt to just be prudent with the resources they have.

Choose a Women’s Healthcare provider that is concerned with protecting and saving human life, not one that receives 40% of its income from taking innocent lives.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church clearly states in article 2272: “Formal cooperation in an abortion constitutes a grave offense. The
Church attaches the canonical penalty of excommunication to this crime against
human life. “A person who procures a completed abortion incurs excommunication
latae sententiae,” “by the very commission of the offense,” and subject
to the conditions provided by Canon Law. The Church does not thereby intend to
restrict the scope of mercy. Rather, she makes clear the gravity of the crime
committed, the irreparable harm done to the innocent who is put to death, as
well as to the parents and the whole of society.”
Therefore those who comply with the president’s mandate invite the loss of union with God. While this docrine is declared by the Catholic Church as Canon Law, all Christian Churches that follow the Ten Commandments given to Moses by God recognize that “Thou Shall Not Kill” applies to all humanity.  All Christians should recognize that when Jesus said “Love thy neighbor as thy self”, He didn’t mean “only when it is convenient”, He meant that ALL human life is precious and needs to be respected and protected because we are all made in the image and likeness of God.  By living out our Christian Faith and abiding by our God given consciences we are simply ensuring the right to Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness for everyone, not just those favored by the current administation’s agenda.

The First Amendment of the Constitution allows us free exercise of our Faith and protects us from collusion with this administation’s Culture of Death mentality. The Church Militant must rise against this crime against humanity by ensuring those who have violated their oath to uphold the constitution and their trust of the people are no longer allowed to be in the position of power.

 Our special guest was David Bereit, one of the
co-founders of 40 Days For Life. We came together to thank
God for hearing our prayers and celebrate an end to the harm that
Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider has done
to our community. Planned Parenthood receives
almost a half billion of our tax dollars every year and kills close to
1000 babies every day.

40 Days for Life is now a global effort with Spring and Fall Campaigns
every year. Over 400,000 people have been involved in campaigns since
its inception in College Station Tx in 2004. There are 306 cities
worldwide participating in 40 Day campaigns this Fall from September 28^th
through November 6^th including Dallas Texas.

The closing of the Planned Parenthood facility in Sherman marks a
beginning of renewed commitment to ending the Culture of Death in our
community. As we look into a 40 Days For Life campaign at the
McKinney Planned Parenthood we are excited to see what God has in
store next.

The Alliance Defense Fund, in conjunction with the Susan B. Anthony List, released its summary report on publicly available federal and state audits that identify waste, abuse, and potential fraud by Planned Parenthood and state family planning programs and reveal systemic misuse of nearly $100 million taxpayer dollars.

The audits speak for themselves in detailing Planned Parenthood’s misuse of the money that’s been funneled to state family planning programs and Planned Parenthood affiliates. Ten state audits of Planned Parenthood affiliates in California, New York State, Texas, and Washington reveal waste and abuse totaling nearly $8 million. Moreover, 38 federal audits of 19 states across the country uncovered $88-99 million of waste and abuse in “family planning” programs. Two of these audits, in New York and New Jersey, specifically identified Planned Parenthood, and only Planned Parenthood, as a source of overbilling in the family planning programs; the combined waste in these two audits alone was over $1.5 million.

Why does the gov’t continue to fund America’s largest Abortion Provider every year?

1. While Planned Parenthood operates 785 facilities, there are over 7,000 federally funded health centers ready to absorb Planned Parenthood’s health care clientele, without adding abortion to the mix.

2. Health care is not Planned Parenthood’s focus. Abortion accounts for 97 percent of its “services” to pregnant women. An estimated 40.6 percent of its clinic income is from abortion.

3. Planned Parenthood formed a Coalition of Abortion Providers, whose goal is to make every Planned Parenthood affiliate a seller of abortions.

AMERICA HAS CRUSHING DEBT while Congress continues to fund Planned Parenthood.
All the while, Planned Parenthood is using its $1.2 billion in revenues to pay exorbitant executive salaries and elect more politicians to advance its abortion and radical agenda for sexualization of our children.

If you don’t think Planned Parenthood has radical sex education policies, just go to their website for teens. www.teenwire.com  WARNING! DISGUSTING GRAPHIC MATERIAL!

Fact: A woman’s body uses progesterone to line her uterus and assist the embryo in attaching itself to the uterine wall.
Fact: Ella is an abortion causing drug. Unlike other “emergency contraceptives,”Ella is a Selected Progesterone Receptor Modulator (SPRM), which blocks progesterone receptors from supplying
nutrients to the developing embryo and thereby starving the embryo and causing an abortion. The only other SPRM that has been approved by the FDA is the RU-486 pill.

Fact: RU-486 is a known abortion drug used for ending first trimester pregnancies and is currently distributed by Planned Parenthood and other abortion facilities across the country.
Fact: RU-486 is so dangerous and controversial that the FDA says it can only be dispensed by a doctor in a doctor’s office. Abortion providers find this requirement inconvenient and have even started using “telemed abortions” to get around the FDA requirement by dispensing RU-486 over
the internet to patients in another clinic. If approved, the FDA will allow Ella to be made available in pharmacies without the minimum RU-486 safety requirements, even though both drugs will be the only SPRMs on the market in the US.
Fact: According to the European Medicine Agency (EMEA), the E.U.’s version of the FDA, numerous studies show that ella causes abortions in animals, including rats, rabbits, guinea pigs and macaques (similar to monkeys). Additionally, the EMEA indicated that ella is “embryotoxic
at low doses, when given to rats and rabbits.” Given ella’s molecular similarity to RU-486 and animal data, it is reasonable to conclude that ella will abort human pregnancies.
Fact: The limited data that is available suggests that Ella may cause birth defects and may even affect babies while the mother is breast feeding. Yet, the FDA refuses to conduct more research to ensure Ella is safe for children and their mothers.
Fact: Ella is not safe for women’s health. The FDA looked at limited data on safety information and should conduct further tests on the effects of ella. We already know that the RU-486 pill causes excessive bleeding and increases vulnerability to infection. The FDA has admitted that 6 women have died as a result of RU-486 within 6 years of its approval. Women who choose to take
ella have a right to be informed of all of the potential side-effects.
Fact: Once the FDA issues it’s approval of ella, nothing will prevent providers from prescribing, or women from using ella off-label, meaning taking the drug beyond the 5 day approved time frame or at different dose levels, thus putting women and their children’s health and safety in
danger.
Fact: If approved as emergency contraception, U.S. taxpayers will likely pay millions of dollars a year for Ella, creating a loophole in the current federal ban on abortion funding. Once Ella is paid for, abortion providers like Planned Parenthood could give it to pregnant women to induce a
taxpayer-funded abortion.
Fact: The FDA has not done its job. Women in America deserve better. Women deserve to know the truth.
Go to www.ellacausesabortions.com for more information.

Texoma Pro-Life Association is promoting the 40 Days For Life Campaign in McKinney to help Pray to End Abortion. The 40 Days for Life program has been hugely successful and is now a worldwide effort. Its a program of Prayer, Fasting and Community Outreach – which is why it has been so successful. We’re reaching out to area churches to invite members of our community join us. The  Kickoff Rally is scheduled February 19, 2012. Come out and join us as we promote a Culture of Life.

http://www.40daysforlife.com/mckinney/

Abortion is never a mere personal choice but a grave offense against God and His creation. The anti-abortion struggle has always been a religious battle and foremost in its ranks have been Catholics across the country. This is because Church teaching on abortion is clear and unequivocal: Abortion is murder. There are no exceptions allowed, no compromises possible.

2. The Unnoticed War

The continuing war on terror has lead to a renewed national consciousness of the high price of war, and, for many, a heightened desire for peace. Yet, despite all this concern, the most horrible war of all has gone all but unnoticed. This is a war going on within our own borders, and it has claimed 52 million American lives in the last 39 years.

This scourge is as horrible as anything terrorists can fathom, because it strikes at the very core of humanity and our country: the family. By destroying the most basic human bond of all—that between mother and child—abortion dissolves the precious glue that binds our nation together.

While mother and child are the first victims, there is not a single element of society that is not affected by abortion. Mother, child, father, husband, aunt, uncle, friend, sibling and grandparent alike suffer the scars of the abortionist’s scalpel. Peace abroad is meaningless without peace at home.

3. Life starts at the moment of conception

This is the definition given in any respectable medical textbook. To declare a beginning of life at any point after the fusing of a wife’s egg and a husband’s contribution is irrational and an exercise in sophistical chicanery. Only machines such as clocks and cars come into existence part by part. Living beings come into existence all at once and gradually unfold their world of innate potential. A living human begins to exist at the moment of conception, even though only as a cell. What is important is not the accident of size or weight but the essence – which is fully human. The unborn baby has a distinct, unchanging and unrepeatable genetic code, unique in all of history, from the moment of conception till death. Nothing is added except nutrition and oxygen.¹

4. Mankind must protect life whenever possible

The first and foremost instinct of humans is preservation of life. This begins with self-preservation, and extends to all humanity through domestic bonds and realization of a like nature. “Pregnancy termination” stops the beating heart of a growing human being and is in direct contradiction to this most basic premise of human nature. It forsakes natural law, and has left America as a country unable to repopulate itself without the aid of mass immigration.

5. Abortion is an unsafe procedure

Compared with other medical procedures, the abortion industry is largely unregulated. Although there are no exact statistics for the number of women who die from botched procedures, LifeDynamics.com compiled a list of 347 women killed by legal abortions since 1973.² Furthermore, the National Cancer Institute commissioned a study lead by Dr. Janet Daling, an abortion supporter, and her colleagues at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center which found a link between abortion and cancer: “among women who had been pregnant at least once, the risk of breast cancer in those who had experienced an induced abortion was 50% higher than among other women.”

The Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer reports: “28 out of 37 worldwide studies have independently linked induced abortion with breast cancer. Thirteen out of fifteen studies conducted on American women report increased risk. Seventeen studies are statistically significant, sixteen of which found increased risk. Most of the studies have been conducted by abortion supporters.” ³

6. Embryonic stem-cell and human cloning research: a biogenetic Tower of Babel

In a cynical but logical progression, the culture of death is now bent on engendering human life so as to destroy it. Its new frontier is embryonic stem-cell and human cloning research. In the name of science and health, human life is destroyed at its very inception and “limited” cloning is used to produce usable cells that can be manipulated and harvested to aid the living. In short, the remaining ethical barriers that preserve human dignity and God’s rights in Creation are steadily coming down. The biotech revolution has as its avowed goal not just curing disease but the construction of a “brave new world” of genetic engineering, changing the very makeup and design of man himself. We cannot permit the completion of this challenge to God, a new Tower of Babel, which will be like another Pandora’s box, unleashing untold ethical and moral havoc on our nation.

7. Breaking the abortion cycle

Abortion is a sin that perpetuates evil. The abortion mentality destroys the family by making it more difficult for new Americans who survive beyond the womb to find the family welded together by the indissoluble bond of marriage solely between a man and a woman. Children need families that will nurture them, guard their innocence and develop their personalities. In particular, all children must find within their homes the Faith that enables them to know, love and serve God in this world and be happy with Him forever in the next. As long as the traditional family remains in crisis, we will never sever the power lines that supply the abortion mills. As long as the Faith remains dead in souls, we will never wipe out the moral rot of sexual immorality, which is the contaminated soil where the abortion movement grows and flourishes.

8. Roe v. Wade: 37 Years of Lies

The 37th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s infamous Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion-on-demand calls to mind the biggest pack of lies ever set in motion – lies that have cost the lives of more than 42 million innocent babies cruelly torn from their mothers’ wombs. How can such slaughter, numerically on par with Hitler’s Germany or Stalin’s Russia, be tolerated by the present United States of America, a republic purportedly based on moral values and human rights?

9. Addressing an abortionist

Once you were an enchanting child, as all babies are. Today you are an abortionist, a killer of babies. Do you not regret your wicked deeds? Do you not see the innocent blood of our children that stains your hands and cries out to God? Have you no shame as did our first parents when they sinned against God? Why do you not turn to Him today, seek His forgiveness and His strength never again to murder the innocent? Would you not rather bring children into the world than destroy them? Children you could raise with respect for life to take the place of those you robbed from God?

10. The dangerous slippery slope

Yesterday it was contraception. Today it’s abortion, the murder of unborn children, and same-sex “marriage.” Will it be widespread euthanasia tomorrow? Then what…? Once abortion is universally accepted, what logical arguments will stop euthanasia and other forms of murder and brutality?

Other helpful facts:

• The unborn baby’s heart starts beating at 20 days⁴ and the brain gives off brainwaves at 40 days. If these factors are used by the law to determine death, why can’t they be used to determine life?

• Babies can survive outside the womb at 21 weeks.⁵ By 14 weeks, the entire body surface, except the back and top of the head, are sensitive to pain.⁶ The embryo is not a blueprint that becomes a human being, any more than a paper blueprint becomes a house.⁷

Note: Geoffrey Mull and James Bascom contributed to this article.