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PELOSI SAYS BIRTH CONTROL WILL HELP ECONOMY Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi boldly defended a move to add birth control funding to the new economic "stimulus" package, claiming "contraception will reduce costs to the states and to the federal government." Pelosi, the mother of 5 children and 6 grandchildren, who once said, "Nothing in my life will ever, ever compare to being a mom," seemed to imply babies are somehow a burden on the treasury. The revelation came during an exchange Sunday morning on ABC's THIS WEEK. STEPHANOPOULOS: Hundreds of millions of dollars to expand family planning services. How is that stimulus? PELOSI: Well, the family planning services reduce cost. They reduce cost. The states are in terrible fiscal budget crises now and part of what we do for children's health, education and some of those elements are to help the states meet their financial needs. One of those - one of the initiatives you mentioned, the contraceptio...

The Smithsonian is honoring one of the 20th century's most notorious eugenics proponents, Margaret Sanger. American Life League exposes Sanger's racist plan to create a "master race."

NuvaRing is a newer type of birth control manufactured by Organon Pharmaceuticals, which delivers medication through a ring inserted by the woman once a month to prevent pregnancy. Nuva Ring birth control is a hormonal contraceptive that prevents pregnancy by releasing low doses of the hormones estrogen and progestin. Otherwise healthy young women have reported suffering heart attacks, strokes, pulmonary embolism, deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and other blood clot injuries while on the birth control ring. A growing number of Nuva Ring lawsuits have been filed in federal court and various state courts throughout the country. The cases allege that Organon failed to adequately warn about the risk of blood clots. For the latest information on Nuva ring and lawsuits, go here and here .

For years, Drs. Rebecca and Benjamin Peck were cafeteria Catholics. They chose to believe some of the church’s teachings, but not all, especially those concerning birth control. Although the Pecks attended Mass regularly, the two, who are family practice doctors in Ormond Beach, prescribed contraception. But after studying physical and spiritual consequences of the pill, the Pecks decided it was time to practice what the Church teaches. The couple recently joined the ranks of Catholic doctors across Florida and the U.S. who do not prescribe birth control. MORE

"We claimed that between five and ten thousand women a year died of botched abortions. The actual figure was closer to 200 to 300 and we also claimed that there were a million illegal abortions a year in the United States and the actual figure was close to 200,000. So, we were guilty of massive deception." "One of the myths that was fed to the public through the media was that legalizing abortion would only mean that abortions taking place illegally, would be done legally. But in fact, abortion is now being used primarily as a method of birth control all over the world and in the USA. too." ~ Former Abortionist Bernard Nathanson, On July 9, 2008, in an interview with CFRB talk show host, Spider Jones

American Life League's Warning: Planned Parenthood's latest outreach website to teens and pre-teens, called TakeCareDownThere.org, is absolutely VILE! While our report does NOT present the nasty stuff, please use great discretion when viewing the contents of the site, and be sure not to watch any of the videos with kids around. While the videos themselves are not entirely visually offensive, the verbal content is absolute FILTH! Warning: Adult Content I am showing this to make people aware of where their tax money is going. Who is Planned Parenthood's new spokesman? Planned Parenthood attempts to use sick humor to normalize sexual behavior. Related Post: Please Help Protect Life: Defund Planned Parenthood.