In The News
In its March/April 08 issue, Relevant Magazine listed Lou Engle and the red life tape as one of the top 35 ideas that have changed the world in the last 5 years.
Bound4LIFE is featured in the October 22, 2007 issue of U.S. News & World Report in an article titled “A Brewing Fight on the Right.”
Iowa Justice Tour Follow Up
The Iowa Justice Tour was held August 5–10. We traveled to six cities on six consecutive days to hold Silent Sieges at all of Iowa’s seven abortion clinics. One of the key prayer targets for the tour was that the dark veil of secrecy and deception would be lifted from Planned Parenthood and the other abortion providers. The tour began in Council Bluffs and traveled to Sioux City, Bettendorf, Iowa City, Cedar Rapids and then finished in Des Moines.
On August 17, one week after the tour, a horrific event took place that has catapulted these clinics into the national spotlight. A 40-year-old woman identifying herself as “Jane Roe” (the same pseudonym used in Roe v Wade) has filed a lawsuit against Planned Parenthood and Dr. Meryl Severson for negligence and battery. The woman suffered “catastrophic perforation” of the uterus and surrounding tissue resulting in an 80% blood loss and seizures. Although the patient begged for the doctor to stop because of extreme pain, Dr. Severson ordered faculty to hold her down while he continued.
Ultimately, the woman was rushed to a local hospital where she had to undergo an emergency hysterectomy, removal of an ovary and multiple blood transfusions in order to save her life. The full details of the lawsuit can be viewed at this link.
Dr. Severson lives in Omaha, NE, and splits his time between Council Bluffs and Sioux City, IA and Lincoln, NE.
The circumstances of this story are disturbing, and we pray for healing and protection for “Jane Roe.” This catastrophy nearly resulted in two deaths. Please join us in continuing to pray that a great exposure will take place that reveals the truth behind this modern holocaust. Abortion hurts women.
Planned Parenthood Deception Exposed in Aurora, IL
Poll: Hispanic Immigrants Take Very Strong Pro-Life Stand on Abortion
by Steven Ertelt, LifeNews.com Editor
September 5, 2007
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) – The pro-life movement has a key ally and the support comes from an unlikely source that’s producing considerable consternation on another political issue – Hispanic immigrants. A new survey of incoming Hispanics finds that they don’t have attachments to the Democratic Party and are pro-life on abortion.
The Congressional Hispanic Leadership Institute polled Hispanic immigrants in the Washington metropolitan area. The study consisted of 279 one-on-one interviews among immigrants of Hispanic descent.
In total, 83 percent of the Hispanics in the survey oppose abortion CHLI said and, even among liberals, 60% oppose abortion.
More specifically, 52 percent said they strongly opposed abortion and 28 percent said they were somewhat opposed to abortion. Only 15 percent said they support legal abortions.
Raimundo Rojas, the Hispanic outreach coordinator for the National Right to Life Committee, told LifeNews.com that the poll validates what pro-life advocates have been saying for years about reaching out to Hispanic voters.
“Another poll, more statistics and numbers that prove yet again that Hispanics in general, are pro-life, pro-American, and very conservative on most social issues,” he said.
Yet nearly 50 percent of those polled felt that elected officials don’t care about them. This should serve as yet another wake up call to pro-life politicians and political parties who want to court Hispanics on their issues,” Rojas explained.
“The pro-abortion movement has nothing to offer Hispanics but disdain, this poll shows that Latinos are open to social conservatism and that we value life,” he told LifeNews.com. “Let’s hope the powers that be are listening and will act upon yet another recitation of statistics that show where Latinos lean politically.”
Octavio Hinojosa, CHLI Executive Director, said, in a statement that LifeNews.com obtained, that the Latino group’s survey found Hispanic “overwhelmingly oppose legal abortion and believe in the importance of regularly attending church services.”
“These conservative trends provide an interesting picture of today’s Hispanic immigrant ,” it said. “they support preserving their strong family values.”
Other surveys of Hispanic voters find similar results when it comes to a pro-life position on abortion.
Conducted by Miami-based Encuesta Inc., an independent market research and opinion polling firm, a November 2006 poll asked both Hispanic and non-Hispanic voters to consider which political issues were important in deciding their vote.
Some 64 percent of Hispanics said abortion was very important while 40 percent of non-Hispanic voters said abortion was important, a difference of 24 percent.
Reaching out to Latino voters can be a key to victory for pro-life candidates.
A post-election poll conducted by the University of Akron, showed that the abortion issue helped President Bush make considerable gains in the 2004 elections among Catholics and Hispanics.
According to the survey, some 63 percent of Hispanic Protestants supported Bush in 2004 compared with just 32 percent in 2000. Meanwhile, Latino Catholics gave Bush a 53 to 47 percent advantage over the Massachusetts senator, also an increase over Bush’s 2000 numbers.
Even in a primarily liberal urban area, the survey showed that a majority of DC Hispanic immigrants do not align themselves to the Democratic Party.
CNN Special Report: God’s Warriors
Christiane Amanpour of CNN reports in a three-day event “God’s Warriors.” With Judaism, Islam and Christianity the focus, the report claims to target the flashpoints in the global battle over religion and power. Bound4LIFE is clearly featured in the trailer for the program.
The program begins Tuesday, August 21 at 9PM ET
1,000 Pro-Lifers Lead ‘Phenomenal’ Offense at Infamous Abortion Clinics
Wed, Jul. 18, 2007 Posted: 13:47:51 PM EST
Some 1,000 pro-lifers from across the nation reportedly participated during a three-day prayer offensive against late-term abortion clinics in Kansas.
The Wichita Awakening concluded with five hundred Christians attending the final praise and worship concert on Monday at the Mid-American Indian center. Earlier that day, the group had gathered in front of George R. Tiller’s notorious abortion mill for one of the largest turnouts there since 1991, according to host organization Operation Rescue. Attendees included notable pro-life movement leader Norma McCorvey, the former “Roe” of Roe v. Wade, who now works to end abortion.
“The phenomenal response to this event can be attributed to the collective shock and concern across our nation to Tiller’s late-term abortion practice, for which he is now facing criminal charges,” said Operation Rescue president Troy Newman about Wichita Awakening,
“And to the increasing enthusiasm of the emerging generation to support the cause of life,” he added.
...Participants at the Women’s Health Care Services protest wore red tape printed with the word “LIFE” over their mouths...One of the many highlights of the recent three-day event was the successful dissuasion of a woman from carrying out her abortion plans on Monday.
The woman, who was scheduled to receive an abortion at Tiller’s clinic, was encouraged by the group to visit a pro-life medical clinic, Choices Medical Center, located directly next door, according to Operation Rescue. The woman after consultation at the clinic decided to keep her baby.
“We are excited to see the fruit that will come from the seeds of prayer that were planted in Wichita over the weekend,” said Operation Rescue president Troy Newman.
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“Thousands pray for purer nation”
Front page feature article of The Tennessean On 07.07.07 over 85,000 life bands were given out free of charge to everyone in attendance at theCall Nashville. Never before have so many people in one place been mobilized to make the Bound4LIFE covenant–PRAY, VOTE & OBEY. We also distributed LIFE tape to the entire crowd and stood in silent prayer for the ending of abortion. The silence was deafening!
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Excerpt taken from statement by Roman Giertych, Poland’s Minister for Education
March 14, 2007
“Every human being also the unborn one requires protection. The missing truth about the tragedy of millions of Europeans killed every year by abortion is one of the mournful realities of our times. That crime legalized by numerous parliaments has been a new form of barbarity. A nation that kills its children is a nation without future. The continent that kills its children will be colonized by those who do not kill them.
Europe needs changes. Abortion should be immediately prohibited. Human life is the highest value on Earth… We have to confirm family and bounce back to traditional for European values – values of human life, family and the natural law.”
ABC News Nightline interviews Lou Engle and covers the Washington DC Justice House of Prayer and Bound4LIFE.