[Pflienews] PharmFacts E-News Update: PFLI joins in 2nd Pill Protest Day; More Tiller; PP, Guttmacher, stats and More....

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*PharmFacts E-News Update -- 8 Jun 2009 AD
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<http://www.pfli.org/articles/20090606pillkills.html>
*/_PFLI JOINS IN 2ND PILL KILLS PROTEST..._/* 
<http://www.pfli.org/articles/20090606pillkills.html>
*/_ Sebelius must assume some blame of Tiller's death... 
<http://cashill.com/regional/sebelius_must.htm>_/*
*/_ Drive By Media Fact Check Shock: many more than THREE places do late 
term abortions... 
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 http://www.ncregister.com/site/article/18386/

*/Pro-Lifers Caution Against Use of Guttmacher Statistics/*

/A look at the question over just how many abortions there are. Should 
we follow the Guttmacher Institute's figures or Planned Parenthood's or 
what?/

BY GAIL BESSE

REGISTER CORRESPONDENT

June 14-20, 2009 Issue/ | Posted 6/5/09 at 7:02 AM/

 WASHINGTON --- Do pro-lifers unwittingly collaborate with abortion 
advocates by not challenging statistics from the Guttmacher Institute, a 
former Planned Parenthood affiliate?

   Consider: The institute's January 2008 report stated abortions were 
decreasing nationwide.

But when the country's largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood, 
released its annual report this April, the document showed a 5.3% rise 
in its abortion business and increased taxpayer funding.

   One Catholic activist has repeatedly written to bishops, pro-life 
groups and Catholic media outlets about the need for a nonbiased 
statistical source, an alternative to Guttmacher.

   In a February letter to the Register, Charles Coudert of Sherborn, 
Mass., noted that Guttmacher has swayed public opinion by framing the 
debate to include only statistics on procured abortion.

   He said Guttmacher "helped promote President Obama's eventual 
election when, in January 2008, it released a report alleging that the 
United States abortion rate had fallen from 1.31 million per year in 
2000 to 1.21 million in 2005."

   This report "resulted in the abortion issue becoming less of an 
impediment for Obama among pro-life Catholics and, at the end of the 
day, he even got a majority of the Catholic vote," said Coudert, who 
leads a monthly Rosary vigil outside a hospital where abortions are done.

   "The surgical abortion rate has indeed fallen a bit," he said, "but 
this has been more than made up for by the increased availability and 
popularity of medications and devices which, although called 
'contraceptives,' can and do act as abortifacients."

   Guttmacher spokeswoman Rebecca Wind said the institute considers 
abortion "the interruption of an existing pregnancy." Thus, RU-486 
(mifepristone, marketed in the U.S. as Mifeprex), is considered an 
abortifacient, but Plan B, the "morning after pill," is not.

She denied any relationship between Planned Parenthood and the 
institute, which became a nonprofit entity upon their separation in 1977.

 *'See Through the Spin'*

   Guttmacher compiles more abortion-related data than any other U.S. 
source, even the federal government. It conducts a periodic census of 
all known abortion providers.

   "Guttmacher says life begins ... at implantation," said Coudert. "By 
accepting Guttmacher, we're in essence disagreeing with the magisterium 
and doing a disservice to parishioners, the majority of whom use 
contraception during their fertile years, by depriving them of the truth 
on this issue."

   "When life starts is not a question to Guttmacher," said Deirdre 
McQuade, assistant director for policy and communications for the 
Pro-Life Secretariat of the U.S.-- Conference of Catholic Bishops. "What 
we call potentially abortifacient --- devices and hormonal contraception 
--- doesn't 'count,' because they've won the language battle. They focus 
only on procured abortion and report on numbers that produce that tragic 
end. We don't consider its numbers to be complete."

   McQuade and other Catholic pro-lifers agreed that Guttmacher's 
statistics must be viewed in context.

   "You need to see through the spin," added Marianne Luthin, the Boston 
archdiocesan pro-life director. "But Guttmacher's numbers are the best 
we have available, more precise than those from the CDC."

   Congress mandates that the federal Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention collect state statistics, but it doesn't mandate that states 
report them.

   "We're not a regulatory agency," said CDC spokeswoman Karen Hunt. 
"Most states do report, but three, including California, don't."

   This is a real obstacle to establishing any accurate national data, 
Luthin noted.

   She said: "The point about the abortifacient nature of contraceptives 
--- that's what people need to hear. I don't think most women on the 
pill have been made aware of that."

   Although nearly 50 million unborn Americans have been killed by 
surgical abortion in the 36 years since /Roe v. Wade/, estimates are far 
higher for total deaths.

   American Life League's president, Judie Brown, puts the casualty 
figure at between 6 and 12 million annually from all induced causes, 
including intrauterine devices, hormones, the pill, fertility treatments 
and other chemical or mechanical means.

Pharmacists for Life International estimates nearly 277 million unborn 
lives have been terminated in the United States since 1973.

   "We recommend not using a propaganda arm of Planned Parenthood like 
Guttmacher for any credible information," said the organization's 
executive director, Bo Kuhar.

 *Pregnant Women's Support*

   But Kuhar could not envision any viable alternative source with the 
current reporting situation and the pro-life movement so disorganized.

   Catholic author and lay evangelist Victor Claveau agreed.

   "Each group has its own constituency," said Claveau, author of /Birth 
Control and Abortifacients/, published by Life Cycle Books. "I'd like to 
see a pro-life alliance that educates and influences clergy, laity 
and our elected representatives."

   Catholic pro-life philanthropist Ray Ruddy does think an alternative 
database is feasible.

"The problem is the federal government gives the contract to Guttmacher 
to count abortions," said Ruddy, who founded the Gerard Health 
Organization based in Natick, Mass.

   According to its annual report, Guttmacher received $1.9 million in 
government funding in 2007. "We could get a favorable group to replace 
Guttmacher tomorrow, if the federal government provided the funds," 
Ruddy said.

   One step toward some cohesion would be congressional passage of the 
Pregnant Women Support Act, which the bishops are backing, according to 
McQuade. Among its provisions are beefed-up reporting requirements and 
federal funding to collect accurate data.

/-Gail Besse writes from Boston.
/

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*Footnote: Attached are some PP statistics from American Life League. 
The stats do not address the manyfold millions of chemical abortions 
proven to happen, but nonethless are useful and edifying for those who 
wish to see the deadly tenacles of PP. Notes and comments from PFLI are 
in brakcets:*
/

*Fast Facts and Frequently Asked Questions*

In addition to our on-going monthly features addressing specific topics 
of interest to the pro-life community (the Culture of Life, Planned 
Parenthood, Population Control, etc.) we're adding a new "Tip of the 
Month" section called "Fast Facts and Frequently Asked Questions."  This 
feature will highlight some of the most frequently quoted and 
sought-after facts and statistics surrounding pro-life issues as well as 
answer some of the most frequently asked questions posed to both our 
office and probably yours. 

*/[Surgical] Abortions in the United States/:*
Total number of [surgical] abortions in the U.S. since 1973: 48 million +
Abortions per year: 1,206,200 [only surgical included]
Abortions per day: 3,307
Abortions per hour: 138
9 abortions every 4 minutes
1 abortion every 26 seconds

There are frequently two sets of numbers regarding abortion statistics 
in the United States; one comes from the Centers for Disease Control and 
the other from the *Guttmacher Institute [see above story].* The CDC 
statistics are lower due to the fact that not all states require 
abortionists to report the number of abortions committed.  The 
Guttmacher Institute, on the other hand, conducts private research of 
all abortion providers throughout the country and is referred to as the 
more accurate source of actual abortion statistics.  Of course, abortion 
statistics fluctuate to some degree each year and so the exact number 
each year does change.  One will note, however, that there are more than 
3,000 children killed each year through the act of [surgical] abortion.

*/Planned Parenthood's income break-down for 2007-2008 fiscal year/:*
PP clinic income: $374.7 million
PP government grants and contracts: $349.6 million
Total profit: $85.0 million
Total income: $1.04 billion

*/2007 Planned Parenthood service numbers/:*
Number of abortions (medical and surgical): 305,310
Total number of abortions per week: 5,871
Adoption referrals: 4,912

Planned Parenthood performs 24% of the total number of abortions in the 
United States and is the largest abortion chain in America.  Abortion 
accounts for one-third [33.3%] of Planned Parenthood's clinic income.  
One out of every four [25%] abortions is committed in a Planned 
Parenthood facility.  Taxpayers gave Planned Parenthood $349.6 million 
in 2007-2008; this is an increase of $12.9 million from 2006-2007. [PFLI 
Note: PP also receives "most fasvored nation" prices on the many 
chemical abortifacient steroids it dispenses annually, thus also 
economically disadvantaging retail pharmacies]


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*PFLI Note: For the continued edification of those who have not kept up 
on this raging debate within the pro-life community and for those who 
bizzarely confuse calling Tiller for what he was (a mass murderer like 
the villains in WW II and the communist/totalitarian slaughter of 
various nations' peoples) with somehow approving of his murder.
*

*LifeSiteNews.com NewsBytes - Reaction to George Tiller Killing*

** Disclaimer: The linked items below or the websites at which they are 
located do not necessarily represent the views of LifeSiteNews.com [nor 
of PFLI]. They are presented only for your information.*

Compiled by Steve Jalsevac

*REACTION TO GEORGE TILLER SHOOTING*

*Media Calls Killer 'Pro-Life'
*half a dozen headlines about the murder of abortionist George Tiller 
that use the word "pro-life" to describe his suspected murderer or his 
associations. "In regular news stories, they always use the term 
'anti-abortion," said Brian Gibson, "Now they start calling the person 
who did this 'pro-life,' when he's not. They're rubbing our noses in the 
term."
http://www.ncregister.com/daily/medias_pro-life_bias_on_display/

*Death's Hand on the Tiller* by John Zmirak   
We shouldn't be surprised to see that pro-choice commentators are moving 
already to turn last week's snuff farce into a morality play, whose 
take-away message is that the pro-life movement is to blame for Tiller's 
death. A powerful, mainstream Democratic Party Web site, TPMCafe.com, 
published on May 31 a column that blames the death of Tiller on the 
simple fact that pro-lifers accurately describe what happens in the 
course of an abortion.

More dangerous to the cause of life than rants like this are statements 
and actions by Christians asserting that pro-life speech is inherently 
deadly -- and so must in the end be regulated, as speech is ever more 
tightly controlled in Canada and Great Britain.

The reason it's wrong to kill abortionists is that it is an act of war, 
and one that does not meet the conditions for a Just War.
http://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6157&Itemid=48 
<http://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6157&Itemid=48>

If Bush or Cheney Had Been Assassinated Would Olbermann and MSNBC Be 
Responsible?
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/06/02/if-bush-or-cheney-had-been-assassinated-would-olbermann-msnbc-be-resp

Abortion Doctor on MSNBC Compares Pro-Lifers to Taliban
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/kyle-drennen/2009/06/01/abortion-doctor-msnbc-compares-pro-lifers-taliban 


*Bonnie Erbe: Calling Abortion What It Is Makes You Extremist
*In other words if you're pro-life but meek to the point of avoiding the 
abortion debate, Erbe doesn't consider you an extremist. But use 
accurately harsh language to describe the accurately harsh reality of 
what abortion is and you are an extremist who eggs on some to political 
terrorism.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/ken-shepherd/2009/06/01/bonnie-erbe-calling-abortion-what-it-makes-you-extremist

AP: Tiller Murder Part of a 'String'; Abort Group's Own History Shreds 
Claim
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2009/06/01/ap-tiller-murder-part-string-abort-groups-own-history-destroys-claim

Crunching numbers and contemplating the culture of death
...since the last abortionist was slain some 170,000 people have been 
murdered in the United States
http://insightscoop.typepad.com/2004/2009/06/crunching-number-and-contemplating-the-culture-of-death.html

Back to the 90s: Media Decried Violence Outside Clinics, But Not Inside
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2009/06/01/back-90s-media-decried-violence-outside-clinics-not-inside

CNN's Chetry Lets Abortionist Smear Pro-Life Demonstrators
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-balan/2009/06/01/cnns-chetry-lets-abortionist-smear-pro-life-demonstrators

ABC's Take on Tiller Murder: 'The Abortion Debate Turns Deadly'
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-whitlock/2009/06/01/abcs-spin-tiller-murder-abortion-debate-turns-deadly

CBS 'Early Show' Sees No Controversy in Tiller's Work As 'Abortion 
Provider'
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/kyle-drennen/2009/06/01/cbs-early-show-sees-no-controversy-tiller-s-work-abortion-provider

Liberal Blogs Quickly Link Doctor's Murder to Limbaugh, Hannity, and Beck
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/rusty-weiss/2009/05/31/liberal-blogs-quickly-link-doctor-s-murder-limbaugh-hannity-beck

Liberals Blame O'Reilly for Tiller Murder, Silent on Military Recruiter 
Shooting
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mitchell-blatt/2009/06/02/liberals-blame-oreilly-tiller-murder-silent-military-recruiter-shoot

How Long Will It Take Media To Tag Tiller Murderer As Not Part of 
Prolife Movement?
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2009/05/31/how-long-will-it-take-media-tag-tiller-murderer-not-part-prolife-movemen

Gravely Wicked by Robert P. George
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NDM5NGYyYWMxZDY3NWFmYjhjZmJiNTI2YmRjZmRlYWE=

*"Can the killing of abortionists be justified?"
*Already, within the span of a few hours, a standard line by some 
abortion supporters/providers has become, "Those who call abortion 
murder are implicitly or indirectly responsible for Tiller's death." 
It's a nifty bit of rhetoric, but one that is inherently flawed. It 
rests on the very shaky premise that if you believe someone has 
committed murder, you will be inclined to kill them if you have a 
chance. But both logic and experience say otherwise. The vast majority 
of people---even those with intense emotions about the matter---seek 
justice through lawful means, even if those means are often frustrating 
and, in some cases, deeply flawed.
http://insightscoop.typepad.com/2004/2009/05/can-the-killing-of-abortionists-be-justified.html 


Rhetoric from left-wing blogs/sites: There will be more of this---much 
more---in the days to come, I'm certain of it. And, sadly, Randall Terry 
is not helping matters at all. Not one bit.
http://insightscoop.typepad.com/2004/2009/05/suspect-arrested-in-tiller-slaying.html

Media: Tiller a Martyr, Abortion Not Killing and Pro-Lifers are Crazy
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/colleen-raezler/2009/06/02/media-tiller-martyr-abortion-not-killing-pro-lifers-are-crazy

CNN Highlights Prediction of a 'Huge Backlash' Against Pro-Lifers After 
Tiller
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-balan/2009/06/02/cnn-highlights-prediction-huge-backlash-against-pro-lifers-after-till

Bozell Column: A Pro-Life 'Jihad'?
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-bozell/2009/06/02/bozell-column-pro-life-jihad

Late Term Abortions Provided More Widely Than Media Reporting
http://www.priestsforlife.org/blog/?p=546

Is the Obama Administration More Concerned About Radical 
Anti-Abortionists Than Radical Islamists?
http://foxforum.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/06/02/morris_father_jonathan_tiller/

*CNN's Chetry Lets Abortionist Smear Pro-Life Demonstrators
*CNN anchor Kiran Chetry let an "abortion provider" from Alabama, whose 
center was bombed by captured fugitive Eric Rudolph, denigrate all 
pro-life activists who have ever protested in front of such centers as 
potential murderers
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-balan/2009/06/01/cnns-chetry-lets-abortionist-smear-pro-life-demonstrators

Number One Stupid and Irresponsible Comment On Dr. Tiller - Deal W. Hudson
http://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_myblog&Itemid=127 
<http://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_myblog&Itemid=127>

View Story on LifeSiteNews.com 
<http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/viewonsite.html?articleid=09060514>
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*Notre Dame Not Seeking Leniency for Arrested Pro-Life Protesters: 
Thomas More Lawyers Now on the Case*
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/jun/09060406.html 
<http://ss.all.org/link.php?M=18096&N=188&L=1380&F=H>
Life Site News
Thomas More Society attorneys appeared in St. Joseph County Criminal 
Court to defend two prominent pro-life advocates against trespass 
charges brought this morning by local prosecutors in the wake of 
protests at the University of Notre Dame. The attorneys join the fight 
with pro-life attorney Tom Dickson, who is representing dozens more 
pro-lifers arrested at the campus.
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