Bel Aire: First US City to Outlaw Abortion Signs

Bel Aire, Kansas: 1st US City to Outlaw Abortion Signs
BEL AIRE, Kan. -- Operation Rescue West President Troy Newman faces six months in jail and a $1,000 fine for daring to take the Truth Truck to the public streets of Bel Aire, Kansas, where it has been banned. The Truth Truck is a large panel truck professionally outfitted with billboard-sized graphic abortion images and other pro-life messages. "The Truth Truck has now been outlawed in the first American city ever. Apparently the City of Bel Aire will stop at nothing to make sure that the public never knows the truth about what its resident, abortion profiteer Carrie Klaege, does for a living. This is the rotten fruit of Roe vs. Wade. Babies were first denied their right to life, now we are being denied our right to tell the truth about the tragedy of abortion to the general public," said Troy Newman, president of Operation Rescue West.

City tickets Truth Truck as a “Portable Sign”
The truth truck's most recent trip was to Bel Aire. Operation Rescue parked it outside a woman’s home, who works at Doctor George Tiller’s clinic where late term babies are killed by abortion. The city of Bel Aire said pro-lifers do not have the right to park what the city calls a portable sign. So, the city cited Operation Rescue West president, Troy Newman. He faces six months in jail and a $1,000 fine. Newman says they were singled out. City Attorney Lee Parker says they were simply enforcing the ban. He says it doesn’t matter what the sign says. Newman says the truck faced a similar situation in Leawood, Kan. back in November. He doesn’t plan on backing down. Operation Rescue plans on filing suit against the City of Bel Aire in the next few weeks. But, the city attorney says he’s found three court cases so far that support city rights to enforce portable sign bans.

Work Resumes at Planned Parenthood Site
AUSTIN -- Two months after a contractor boycott shut down work on a Planned Parenthood clinic that will offer abortion services, construction has resumed at the South Austin site. Project planners hope to meet their original fall completion date. Planned Parenthood won't identify the companies working for fear of another telephone and letter writing campaign. The site is surrounded by a fence of orange nylon webbing and work trucks carry no identifying markings. "It's our commitment to protecting the safety and privacy for our team," Planned Parenthood spokeswoman Danielle Tierney said.

Women Gather to Speak Out on Abortion
SILENT NO MORE -- As our nation recognizes 31 years of legalized abortion on Jan. 22, 2004, women across the nation are gathering at their State capitols and in Washington, DC to speak out about how abortion has hurt them and to warn other about the dangers and tragic consequences of abortion. Others, such as fathers, siblings, and grandparents will join them.

4,000 March at Capitol in Protest of Abortion
OLYMPIA - Several thousand people descended on the state capitol Tuesday calling for an end to abortion. This is the 26th year demonstrators have come. Organizers say it's heartening to see 4,000 people there, but they say it's heartbreaking that they have to come at all. Supporters who've been coming for years vow to keep up the fight. One of the bills they're supporting again this year is requiring parental consent for young people getting abortions. (Read: Christians Murdering Babies)

Giving Voice to Voiceless Victims of Abortion
American Life League's Rock for Life, the nation's premier pro- life youth organization, will host its annual week of training and activism beginning Wednesday, Jan. 21, through Thursday, Jan. 22. Rock for Life's mission is to educate, activate, mobilize and unite the youth of our nation to fight the Culture of Death.

Citizens Protest Abortion
ADRIAN -- Ronda Keck said it was "worth it" to brave the cold temperatures Monday if it helped put an end to abortion in Michigan. "The Lord made women with a desire to protect and care for their babies," she said. "Aborting one's own offspring is not the answer to a desperate pregnancy and a fulfilled life."

Keeping Abortion Safe and Legal
Law Firm Helps States Regulate Murder
Abortion Regulators issue State-by-State report card
States were credited for initiatives designed to protect women, their health, and their unborn children.[?] On measures to protect women, Denise M. Burke, AUL staff counsel and project coordinator noted that many states either have no regulations or do not enforce basic health and safety regulations at abortion clinics.

Some Activists Want New Law Protecting
Unborn Children When Mother Is Killed
DES MOINES — Anti-abortion activists urged state lawmakers Tuesday to allow Iowa prosecutors to file double-homicide charges against assailants who kill a pregnant woman and her unborn child. Under the “Unborn Victims of Violence Act,’’ Iowa law would consider an unborn child to be the second victim of a violent crime perpetrated against a pregnant woman. The act would cover first-degree murder, which carries a life prison term without the possibility of parole. Current Iowa law targets what it calls the “unintended termination of a pregnancy,’’ slapping assailants with a series of felony penalties up to a maximum of 50 years in prison. But those punishments differ from standard penalties for violent crimes. “The goal is to say that an unborn child that’s injured or killed is as valuable, and the crime is as heinous, as if a born child were killed or injured,’’ said Chuck Hurley, a former lawmaker who leads the Iowa Family Policy Center. AND “It would not change the abortion laws,’’ he said.

Peterson Trial to Move to San Francisco Bay Area
MODESTO – The murder trial against Scott Peterson in the killings of his pregnant wife and unborn son will be held in San Mateo County, a judge ruled Tuesday after rejecting a prosecution attempt to keep the case in Modesto. Judge Al Girolami chose San Mateo County Superior Court, south of San Francisco and about 90 miles west of Stanislaus County, from a list of four counties. Girolami had said he wanted a courthouse within driving distance of Modesto.

Clone-Slave State to Promote 'Legalized' Child
Abandonment to 'Discourage' Child Abandonment?
TRENTON, N.J. -- State officials plan an advertising and community outreach campaign to keep parents from dumping newborns in New Jersey[?], where just this month one infant's body washed up on the beach, one was left alive in a toilet and a third was left outside in a plastic bag. Dina Matos McGreevey, the wife of the governor, will be the voice of the television and radio ads about the Safe Haven Infant Protection Act, which allows parents to drop off unwanted newborns at hospitals or police stations without fear of prosecution. James Davy, the newly appointed state Human Services commissioner, said Tuesday that $400,000 would be spent on the advertising campaign from money budgeted under the Safe Haven act. "I want to flood the neighborhoods," Davy said. "I want to reach people where they live, where they work, where they shop and in the language which they speak."

Cops Rule Newborn's Death As Homicide
VENTNOR, N.J. -- The strangulation death of a newborn girl found on a beach this weekend will be investigated as a homicide. Atlantic County Prosecutor Jeffrey S. Blitz said authorities were still searching for the baby's mother. They spoke with an Atlantic City woman who was bloodied and disoriented when she was found in the area, but have since determined that she was not connected to the child.

'Some' Pharmacies Will Refuse to Stock Morning After Pill
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration won't decide until next month whether to approve a "morning after" emergency contraceptive pill for over-the-counter sale, but even if it does, there's no guarantee that women will be able to purchase the drug over the counter at local pharmacies in Pittsburgh.

Day 2 At Legislature About Abortion
Two abortion bills have advanced at the State Capitol. This major step forward happened on the second day of this year's session. For more, we go to Richard Piatt live at the Capitol. One of the bills is a ban on partial birth abortions. The other would not allow the state to pay for any abortion through Medicaid.

Theater’s ‘Vagina Monologues’ Donation Angers Pro-Lifers
PORTSMOUTH - "Certainly, as a marketing director for a theater in a small town, I never thought I’d be on the front line of the abortion debate," said Stacy Baker-Chilicki, of the Seacoast Repertory Theatre. Baker-Chilicki said she knew it wasn’t business as usual when she started receiving calls from angry pro-life organizations and individuals last Monday. The calls were prompted by the announcement that proceeds from this year’s production of the "Vagina Monologues," set to begin on Feb. 15, would go to benefit the Portsmouth Feminist Health Center. Among the many services offered by the center are first-trimester abortions.

Radical Pro-Choice Call To Action For April 25, 2004
Feminists, radical cheerleaders, anti-authoritarians, anarchists and all those concerned with women's autonomy: join us on April 25th 2004 in Washington, DC for a highly festive mobile cheer bloc! WHY: There was a time in America's history when self-identifying radicals fought tirelessly to end government occupation of the womb - they succeeded. Many of us owe them our lives; all of us owe them our respect. As radicals we stand committed to an ideology of whatever form.

In Vitro Gender Selection:
Couple Murders 7 Boys and 5 Girls?
A couple is getting national attention this week for choosing to have twin baby girls through in vitro fertilization. Shane and Sharla Miller of Gillette used the Internet to find a fertility institute in Los Angeles that uses an in vitro fertilization technique called preimplantation diagnosis to determine an embryo's gender. After producing 14 healthy embryos, seven male and seven female, doctors successfully implanted two females into Sharla Miller's uterus in November, according to Newsweek.

Couple Charged in Alleged Exorcism Death
ATLANTA - A husband and wife have been charged with murdering a 6-year-old girl whose back was broken in what police said may have been an exorcism gone wrong. The couple was arrested Monday after being spotted on the street naked in the freezing cold along with two other children. Police said the dead girl, whose body was discovered in a motel room, had been strangled and stabbed, and her back was broken. An autopsy was planned.

Day Care Director Sentenced for Infant's Death
OLEAN, N.Y. -- The director of a day care center was sentenced Tuesday to three to nine years in prison for the death of a 7-month-old boy in her care. Christina Smith pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter in November for the death of Noah Boser. Smith denied she fatally injured Noah Boser but accepted the plea deal because of the strong possibility of a conviction at trial. She was originally charged with second-degree murder in the case. Prosecutors said Smith hit Noah in the head Sept. 18, 2002 while caring for him at the state-registered day care center.

Military Court Finds Sailorette Guilty In Son's Death
A Navy sailorette whose son died after she left him alone in a car on a hot day was found guilty Tuesday by a military court of involuntary manslaughter and other charges and sentenced to nine years in prison. "Seaman" Lateasha Moore left 11-month-old Mikius in a locked car at Little Creek Naval Amphibious Base in Virginia Beach on July 27, 2002. Mikius suffered hyperthermia from the extremely high temperatures and died.

Parents Increasingly Question Need For Vaccines
A survey published this month suggests a growing number of U.S. parents are beginning to question either the need for vaccines for their children, or the need to follow the recommended schedule of multiple shots between the ages of 3 months and 3 years. The survey of nearly 1,500 doctors found that 93 percent of pediatricians and 60 percent of family physicians had seen at least one parent who refused a vaccine for his or her child in the past year.

Vaccination Liberation
Vaccination Liberation is a national association dedicated to providing information on vaccinations not often made available to the public so that one can make an informed choice.

USAID Reaffirms U.S. Commitment to Helping Haiti
Washington -- In a January 17 letter to the Washington Post, Franco said the United States is Haiti's largest donor and contributed $71 million in humanitarian aid to that nation in 2003. In addition, Adolfo Franco, assistant administrator for Latin America said President Bush has singled out Haiti as a "priority country" for preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS, resulting in U.S. funding of several million dollars each year to help mothers and children.

'What is the United States Agency for
International Development? (USAID)' -- Scroll Down
Population Reduction Snake-Pit: USAID's Population Program is one of the success stories in U.S. development assistance. Since the launch of the program in 1965, the percentage of couples in developing countries using contraception has risen from 10% to 50%, and the average number of children born to couples worldwide has dropped by a third.

Posted by Editor at January 21, 2004 03:31 AM